NUR 268A Drug Therapy & Nursing Implications

This one-credit course focuses on nursing management and critical thinking regarding medication therapy. Introductory topics are pharmacokinetics, drug interactions and nursing implications. These topics are then applied to the drug groups which are applicable to the content provided in NUR 101. Drug lists for each major category of drugs will be used to direct learning for drug action, safe dosage, side effects, drug interactions, adverse reactions, and nursing implications.

Credits

1

Offered

Offered Fall only

Notes

Career Technical Education (CTE) Course

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Safety administer and evaluate the effectiveness of the pharmaceutical classifications covered in this course. Identifies appropriate health promotion education related in the medications studied. Teach patients to safely take drugs within the pharmaceutical classifications covered in this course.