Teaching pharmacology to advanced practice nursing students: issues and strategies.
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.
Schwertz
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University of Illinois at Chicago M/C 60612, USA.
Piano
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MR
Kleinpell
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Johnson
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D003479:Curriculum; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000193:education*; D010600:Pharmacology / Q000193:education*; D013782:Textbooks as Topic