NURS 7709 - Advanced Practice Nursing Primary Care Pharmacotherapeutics Across the Lifespan

[2 Credits]

Advanced Practice Nursing Primary Care Pharmacotherapeutics Across the Lifespan builds on advanced pharmacology principles to provide the pharmacotherapeutic knowledge, skills and abilities essential to preventing illness and managing a patient’s health alterations in a safe, quality, cost-effective, genetically, person-centered, and culturally appropriate manner across the lifespan. The course complements Advanced Health Assessment emphasizing therapeutic clinical decision-making in drug selection and management for the patient that includes consideration of individual responses, health alterations, lifestyle, culture, ethnicity, gender, genomics, and economics. A focus includes 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 used in primary care or urgent care settings for patients across the lifespan.