Teaching Pharmacology to Advanced Practice Nursing Students
- 1 February 1997
- journal article
- review article
- Published by AACN Publishing in AACN Advanced Critical Care
- Vol. 8 (1) , 132-146
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00044067-199702000-00017
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.Keywords
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