NUR 6210 - Advanced Pharmacology I: For APRN Prescriptive Practice

• Analyze and synthesize the impact of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics safety on the appropriate therapeutic drug choice for individual clients
• Evaluate the role of ethnopharmacology safety and the impact on selecting the appropriate medications and therapies in caring for specific client populations
• Analyze how molecular, cellular, and physiological mechanisms underlying pathophysiology can influence the appropriate choice of drug(s)
• Apply appropriate treatment algorithms for the management and treatment of common diseases and conditions while enhancing the quality of care and minimizing risk of harm to clients
• Describe the effective use of non-pharmacological therapeutic interventions in the treatment of specific diseases, conditions, and symptoms
• Interview a pharmacist and reflect on collaboration across the professions and importance of collaboration for pharmacological quality and safety in care for clients
• Compare organizational, state, and federal laws that regulate prescriptive practices
• Demonstrate the development of appropriate medication orders and prescriptions based on relevant legal, regulatory, and ethical principles

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• Role of advanced practice nurse prescriber (APNP)
• Ethical, legal, and professional issues, safety, basic principles and drug reactions, drug selection
• Foundation: pharmacogenomics, nutrition and nutraceuticals, herbal therapies, informational technology and pharmacology, pharmacoeconomics
• Drugs that affect and treat the integument system, dermatological conditions, bacterial infection, viral, fungal, protozoal Infections, drugs to treat eye, ear disorders, drugs affecting the cardiac and renal systems
• Drugs for pain management and inflammatory process
• Drugs affecting autonomic and central nervous system and conditions
• Drugs affecting the GI/GU system
• Drugs affecting the upper and lower respiratory track
• Drugs affecting the endocrine system
• Drugs of the reproductive system
• Special topics: population health focus: substance abuse, anxiety, attention deficit disorder, geriatrics, pediatrics, alternative lifestyle/transgender