NUR 763 Advanced Pharmacology

Course Objectives:

1. Demonstrate proper techniques for advanced nurse practitioner prescription writing and verbal transmission according to current Federal and New York State laws and regulations.

2. Analyze the relationship between pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles to effectively predict a drug’s effect on overall physiologic response.

3. Classify and differentiate the general indications and mechanisms of action of various pharmacological agents.

4. Interpret the concepts and potential for drug-drug interactions and adverse drug reactions.

5. Describe and discuss principles of pharmacotherapeutics for use in the management of specific acute and chronic disease states.

6. Apply critical thinking, research data, nursing informatics, and other resources to describe the pharmacotherapeutic management of primary health care methods.

7. Develop a body of advanced nursing pharmacological knowledge enabling one to manage the primary health care of selected adult patients.

8. Design an individualized  pharmacologic  treatment  plan  for  a  given  patient  with specific disease state(s) based on the most current evidence based treatment guidelines.

9. Display clinical skills necessary for self-directed lifelong learning in order to improve therapeutic outcomes in a patient and public health.

10. Discuss New York State mandatory prescribing education regarding pain management, palliative care and addiction.