Pharmacology in Nursing

Farmacologia em Enfermagem

Curse code:9500213

Eduardo Esperança de Carvalho

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

Goals:

• Acquire the origins of the drug-therapeutic groups, their role as agents as well as their actions and therapeutic effects.
• Know and identify opponents, interactions, contraindications and dosages of the most frequently used drugs.
• Relate drug-therapeutic groups to nursing diagnoses, procedures for drug administration, patient and family education, and assessment of therapeutic settlement.

Skills:

• Know the therapeutic indication and mechanisms of action of the pharmacological groups.
• Detect, prevent and document adverse drug reactions and possible therapeutic errors.
• Identifies and knows the procedures to be performed for safe administration of therapy.
• Know the computer support for the prescription / administration of online therapy.

Syllabus:

1. Drugs acting on the cardiovascular system.
2. Drugs that modify the growth and cell viability.
3. Drugs that inhibits or destriy the bodies invaders.
4. Drugs acting on hormone systems.
5. Other Drugs.
6. Nursing Information Systems - International Classification for Nursing Practice (CIPE).

Suggested Bibliography:

• Aschenbrenner, D.; Venable, S. (Eds.). (2011). Drug Therapy in Nursing. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
• Barber, P.; Robertson, D. (2009). Essentials of Pharmacology for Nurses. Open University Press.
• Brunton, L.; Chabner, B.; Knollmann, B. (Eds.). (2011). Goodman and Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (12ª ed). McGraw-Hill Medical.
• Clayton, B.; Stock, Y. (2016). Farmacologia na Prática de Enfermagem. (13ªed.) Lusodidacta. ISBN: 978-85-352-1942-5.
• Dinis, A. (2010). Guia de Preparação e Administração de medicamentos por via Parentérica. (3ªed.). Lisboa : Edição de autor. ISBN: 978-989-96690-0-0.
• Goodman, L.; Gilman, A. (1996). “As bases farmacológicas da terapêutica” trad. Penildon Silva, 9ªed., Rio de Janeiro: McGraw-Hill Interamericana, cop. 1996.