NURSE 102 - Introduction to Pharmacology in Nursing

1. Identify general principles of pharmacology including drug activity and reactions within the body, factors that influence drug action, expected actions and outcomes, pharmacokinetics, and nursing implications related to drug administration.
2. Describe the “Rights of Medication Administration”, components of a medication order, preparation of drugs for administration, methods to reduce medication errors, routes of medication administration, and the nursing responsibilities during the medication administration process.
3. Calculate medication administration and dosage problems accurately using information provided on drug labeling.
4. Discuss the uses, general drug actions, adverse reactions, contraindications, precautions, interactions for drugs, nursing assessment and patient teaching related to various body systems.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgement that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
4. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.