title: Teaching pharmacology to advanced practice nursing students: issues and strategies.
abstract: A pharmacology course should prepare the advanced practice nursing student to understand the cellular mechanisms of drug action and physiologic outcomes (pharmacodynamics); mechanisms of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of drugs (pharmacokinetics); and the clinical use of drugs in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of disease (pharmacotherapeutics). The goal of a pharmacology course for advance nursing practice is to provide practitioners with knowledge that provides a rational basis for pharmacologic management of patients with complex health problems. A pharmacology course should teach the student the principles of pharmacology along with the process of pharmacologic reasoning.
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago M/C 60612, USA.
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Schwertz
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Piano
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kleinpell
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000193:education*; D010600:Pharmacology / Q000193:education*; D013782:Textbooks as Topic