Pharmacology - Introduction

Syllabus

1: The Application of Pharmacology to Nursing

• The importance of pharmacology
• Legislation and professional guidelines
• The language of pharmacology
• Desirable properties of drugs used to treat human illness
• The formulation of drugs as medicines
• Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics

2: The Administration, Absorption, Distribution and Elimination of Drugs

• Routes for administering drugs
• Key physiological factors that influence drug response
• The effect of drug interactions on patient response

3: Pharmacokinetics and Drug Action

• Pharmacokinetics
• Factors influencing drug bioavailability
• Drug distribution
• The principles of drug metabolism
• The elimination of drugs and their metabolites
• Measuring the distribution of drugs in the body

4: How Drugs Act

• Mechanisms for drug action
• Chemical messengers as a method of cell communication
• Revision of chemical transmission in the autonomic nervous system
• Classifying receptors

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Study Hours

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The approximate amount of time required to complete the course is: 60 hrs.