The Nursing Process and pharmacology, and Medication Errors
Pharmacodynamics, medication actions at receptors.
Pharmacokinetics, absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion.
How medication orders are written and notes on enteral, topical and parenteral medication administration.
Medication Administration, including the Five Rights, the Three Checks, and patient influences of medication safety.
Nurses ensure safety when administering medications. Discussion of Adverse Events.
Classification of medications as controlled substances and as teratogenic substances.
Discussion of the FDA and medication approval
Common genetic problems including Angelman Syndrome and Huntington's Disease, and intro to pharmacology including history of pharmacology and the conventional naming of medications.
Common genetic problems including Cystic Fibrosis, lysosomal storage disease, Wilson Disease, G6PD deficiency, Klinefelter Syndrome, Turner Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome, Down Syndrome, and Prader-Willi Syndrome.
Common genetic problems including familial hypercholesterolemia, familial adenomatous polyposis, Marfan Syndrome, Neurofibromatosis, and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.
Intro to genetic problems and genetic assessments
End of cellular injury, beginning of genetics
End of adaptive cellular changes, concepts of cellular injury, apoptosis, necrosis, and gangrene
Adaptive cellular changes
Finished up discussion of organelles, mostly focused on how a protein is created
Discussion of cells and organelles
Basic introduction to how the course will work
