Further Details
Course 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.
Payment plans are available on request.
Guide price
£260.00 |
