ADN 200C — Pharmacology 3
This course focuses on the study of advanced pharmacology from a conceptual approach as they relate to nursing management of drug therapy. Emphasis is placed on the classifications, prototypes, actions, interactions, adverse effects, and nursing implications and legal and ethical concerns of drugs that affect perfusion, oxygenation, and intracranial regulation, clotting, mood and affect, stress and coping, and cognition. Complex curricular concepts, related to pharmacological modalities, are applied in seminar and laboratory settings. Students are encouraged to utilize the nursing process and clinical reasoning while engaging with these curricular concepts. Upon completion of the course, students will apply pharmacological principles and interventions to provide safe and effective nursing care.