Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Nursing
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Course Calendar & Outline for Spring 2012
Class Date
Content Outline
Introduction to Course
I. Prescribing
Medications
A.
Sources of drug information
1. Print sources
2. "Apps"
B. Evaluation of drug information
C. Cost analysis
D. Legal and ethical issues
1. Regulation of drug products
2. Scope of prescriptive and dispensing
authority
3. Ethical considerations
a. Issues concerning drug abuse
and
misuse
b. Issues arising from a prescriber-
drug manufacturer relationship
c. Issues regarding drug production
promotion (DTCA-Direct to
Consumer Advertising)
d. Issues regarding clinical
investigational drug research
II.
General Principles of Pharmacotherapeutics
A. Therapeutic index
B. Pharmacokinetics: Action of the body
on the drug
1. Absorption
2. Distribution
3. Biotransformation (metabolism)
4. Excretion (elimination)
5. Dosing and the steady state
C. Pharmacodynamics: Action of the drug
on the body
1. Therapeutic range
2. Responses to drugs
3. Drug-receptor action
4. Affinity and efficacy
D. Prescriptive Authority
1. Rational prescribing
2. Prescription writing
3. Prescribing errors
4. Compliance
5. Socioeconomic factors
III. Autonomic (Peripheral) Nervous System
A. Sympathomimetics/Sympatholytics
B. Parasympathomimetics/
Parasympatholytics
A. Cell wall/cell membrane inhibitors for
bacterial infections
B. Antivirals
C. Antifungals
V. Drugs that Act on Smooth Muscles
A. Bronchodilators and agents used in
asthma
B. Histamine, serotonin, and ergot
alkaloids
A. Anti-peptic agents
B. Drugs affecting gastrointestinal motility
C. Antiemetics
D. Laxatives
E. Stool softeners
F. Drugs for chronic inflammatory bowel
Function
A. Medications for treatment of diabetes
B. Thyroid hormones
C. Adrenal hormones
VIII. Cardiovascular-Renal Drugs
A. Antihypertensive agents
B. Vasodilators
C. Cardiac glycosides
D. Cardiac antiarrhythmics
A. Hyperlipoproteinemic agents
B. Anticoagulants
C. Antithrombotic drugs
D. Hematopoietic drugs
X. Drugs that Act on the Central Nervous
System
A. Antidepressants
B. Antipsychotic and mood stabilizers
C. Sedatives and anxiolytic drugs
D. Drugs for movement disorders
E. Anticonvulsants
F. Drugs for cognitive disorders
Continue Unit X
XI. Drugs that are Analgesics: Opiates and
Non-opiates
XII. Dermatologic products
A. Antibacterial
B. Antifungal
C. Antiviral
D. Ectoparasiticides
E. Sunscreen
F. Acne preparations
G. Anti-inflammatory
Page last updated
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Denise D. Wilson, PhD, APN, FNP, ANP, GNP
Mennonite College of Nursing
Illinois State University
Campus Box 5815
Normal, IL 61790-5815
Office: Edwards 220
Phone: (309) 438-2358
Fax: (309) 438-4410
E-mail: ddwilso2@ilstu.edu
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