NURS 7206 - ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACOTHERAPEUTICS ACROSS THE LIFESPAN

[3 Credits]

Advanced Practice Nursing Psychopharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutic Across the Lifespan builds on advanced pharmacology principles to provide the psychopharmacology and pharmacotherapeutic knowledge, skills and abilities essential to manage a client’s psychiatric-mental health alterations in a safe, quality, cost-effective, genetically, and culturally appropriate manner across the lifespan. Emphasis is on the neuroscientific basis for psychopharmacology and practical therapeutic clinical decision-making required in psychoactive drug selection and management for the psychiatric-mental health client that includes consideration of individual responses, health alterations, life style, culture ethnicity, gender, genomics, and economics. Legal and regulatory prescriptive practices, patient education, polypharmacy, safety measures, medication reconciliation practices, and the monitoring and evaluation of therapeutic responses to psychoactive agents across the lifespan will be explored.