NUR (0302) 763 - Advanced Pharmacology Across the Lifespan

Credits: 3.00

This course focuses on the pharmacotherapeutic use of medications for primary health care management by advanced nurse practitioners. Emphasis is placed on the critical thinking process used to prescribe drugs in the management of illnesses. Core concepts include pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacotherapeutics across the lifespan, health related information and medication compliance.

Prerequisite 1: NUR 602 and NUR 704

Corequisite: NUR 756

Course Learning Goals:

Integrate knowledge from the physical, biological, and social sciences to comprehend human physiological functioning across the lifespan.
Identify the etiology, at-risk populations, pathogenesis morphology, and clinical and diagnostics manifestations of selected acute and chronic disease states across the lifespan.
Integrate theories of and knowledge of human physiology to comprehend complex human systems.
Apply self-learning principles in the advanced practice role in integrating current research-based findings to understand etiology, pathogenesis and morphological alterations of selected acute and chronic disease states across the lifespan.
Recognize underlying physiological and/or pathophysiological alterations to health assessments findings across the lifespan and the effect on human systems.
Analyze the relationships between normal physiological processes and pathophysiological processes across the lifespan while implementing into advanced care of all populations.