PHAR 1610 Clinical Drug Therapy
PHAR 1610 Clinical Drug Therapy
Course Description
In this course you will review essential information that reflects current clinical drug therapy by examining the common classification of drugs. The course content includes strategies to promote safe, effective, and rational drug therapy while considering the clients’ individual characteristics.
Course content includes pharmacotherapeutic principles, professional, ethical, and regulatory aspects of prescribing. It also provides a prescribing process that addresses appropriateness of drug choice for individual clients.
Learning Units
Unit 1: Factors Related to the Safe Use of Drugs
Unit 2: Concepts and Processes of Drug Action
Unit 3: Drugs Affecting the Central Nervous System
Unit 4: Drugs Affecting the Autonomic Nervous System
Unit 5: Drugs Affecting the Endocrine System
Unit 6: Drugs Used to Treat Infections
Unit 7: Drugs Affecting the Respiratory System
Unit 8: Drugs Affecting the Cardiovascular and Renal Systems
Unit 9: Drugs Affecting the Gastrointestinal and Genitourinary Systems
Unit 10: Drugs Used in an Emergency Situation
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