NURS 7909 - ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING ACUTE CARE PHARMACOTHERAPEUTICS

[2 Credits]

The Advanced Practice Nursing Acute Care Pharmacotherapeutics builds upon advanced pharmacology principles to provide the pharmacotherapeutic knowledge, skills and abilities essential to manage acutely ill patients in a safe, quality, cost-effective, genetically, and culturally appropriate manner. Emphasis is on therapeutic clinical decision-making in drug selection and management of the acutely ill patient that includes consideration of individual responses, health alterations, life style, culture, ethnicity, gender, genomics, and economics. A focus is on the legal and regulatory prescriptive practices, patient education, polypharmacy, safety measures, medication reconciliation practices, and the monitoring and evaluation of therapeutic responses to pharmacologic agents across the lifespan.