Prescribing Principles, Pharmacotherapy Management & Interpreting Diagnostic Tests
About This Course
This course equips nurses and pharmacists with pharmacotherapy knowledge for the management of common disorders, interpretation of test results, e.g., arterial blood gas (ABG), electrocardiogram (ECG), and X-Ray in patient care settings, drug use & theoretical principles of collaborative prescribing. Specifically, the course will cover how pharmacokinetics has an impact on his/her patient, the precautions involved, treatment methods, drug classes, administration considerations, monitoring parameters, common and clinically relevant side effects, common and clinically relevant drug/diet interactions, describe the reasons for these contraindications, safe & ethical prescribing guidelines and precautions of drug use.
What You'll Learn
Specifically, pharmacists and nurses would be able to assesses the risks and benefits to the patient of taking or not taking a medicine or treatment, knows and applies understanding of the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of medication being prescribed and how these may be altered (e.g. by genetics, age, renal impairment, pregnancy). He/she would be able to identify, access, and use reliable and validated sources of information and critically evaluate other information.
Entry Requirements
"Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs):
must be working in an area with existing or potential need for Collaborative Prescribing service, and
must have identified a clinical supervisor who, together with his/her team, will provide supervision to the candidate during the clinical practicum
Pharmacists (PHAs):
must be at least 3-year post-pharmacist registration with experience in direct patient care setting and working in multidisciplinary / team-based practice for at least 1 year,
must be working in an area with existing potential need for Collaborative Prescribing service, and
must have identified a clinical supervisor who, together with his/her team, will provide supervision to the candidate during the clinical practicum"