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NURS5088: Pharmacology for Advanced Practice
2024 unit information
This unit will introduce students to clinical practice and develops the theme that providing medicines is not a single event but a process. Students will start to develop skills to dispense medicines (including prescription, and compounded medicines), in collaboration with others.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Pharmacy
| Code | NURS5088 |
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| Academic unit | Pharmacy |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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NURS5076 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate an understanding of drug discovery, development and promotion processes in Australia and worldwide
- LO2. demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the general principles of how drugs exert their actions in the human body (pharmacodynamics), a thorough knowledge of the general principles of pharmacokinetics of drugs and the practical application of these principles in advanced nursing practice across the lifespan
- LO3. classify drugs into currently accepted categories and recognise similarities in properties within, and differences between categories
- LO4. source, understand and critically evaluate relevant evidence-based drug information
- LO5. integrate and apply evidence-based pharmacotherapy knowledge to patients with different pathologies in ways that optimise safe medication management.
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