NUR515 - Pharmacotherapeutics for Independent Prescribers

This unit will prepare the Nurse Practitioner student as a non-medical independent prescriber with the knowledge and skills they require to safely prescribe and integrate pharmacological therapies into their clinical management and treatment plans. Topics include: principles of Quality Use of Medicines, Safe prescription including collaborative practice, the pharmacological principles of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics and the application of these into clinical pharmacology. The unit requires 20 hours of supernumerary integrated professional practice.

Unit Information

PRESCRIBED TEXT - DALE'S PHARMACOLOGY CONDENSED

PRESCRIBED TEXT - PHARMACOLOGY FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

PRESCRIBED TEXT - RANG & DALES'S PHARMACOLOGY

PRESCRIBED TEXT - TALLEY & O'CONNOR'S CLINICAL EXAMINATION 2 VOLUME SET 

PRESCRIBED TEXT - UNDERSTANDING PATHOPHYSIOLOGY