PHARMACOLOGY FOR THE PARAMEDIC TO RN

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This course integrates the development of a comprehensive approach to the clinical aspects of drug therapy and emphasizes the nurses' role in pharmacological administration and safety to patients across the life span. The focus is on parenteral therapies that include SQ, IM, and IV piggyback, advanced medication calculations, including heparin therapy, and the classifications of commonly prescribed medications, as well as selected complementary and alternative drugs. Within each classification, a few drugs are selected for study in terms of their mechanism of action, therapeutic use, and side and adverse effects. Psychiatric medications with be highlighted. (A special fee will be assessed.)