NURS 7909 - ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING ACUTE CARE PHARMACOTHERAPEUTICS ACROSS THE LIFESPAN

[2 Credits]

Advanced Practice Nursing Acute Care Pharmacotherapeutics Across the Lifespan builds upon advanced pharmacology principles to provide the pharmacotherapeutic knowledge, skills and abilities essential to managing acutely ill patients in a safe, quality, cost-effective, genetically, and culturally appropriate manner. The course complements Advanced Health Assessment emphasizing is on therapeutic clinical decision-making in drug selection and management of the acutely ill patient that includes consideration of individual responses, health alterations, lifestyle, 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.