Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Therapeutics Curriculum Map Overview
Chapter 3: Pharmacology Basics
- Introduction to pharmacology
- Task: Clinical significance of half-life
- Task: Administration route
- Task: Absorption site
- Pharmacokinetics – ADME
- Quiz: Pharmacokinetics 1
- Quiz: Pharmacokinetics 2
- Task: Urosepsis
- Drug-Receptor Interactions
- Pharmacology of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
- How drugs work - Pharmacodynamics
- Quiz: Pharmacodynamics 1
- Quiz: Pharmacodynamics 2
Chapter 4: Taking a medication history
Chapter 5: Decision making and prescribing
Chapter 6: Writing a safe and legal prescription
- Introduction
- Task: Legal prescription
- Legislation and medicines
- Roles and responsibilities of healthcare professionals in the prescribing process
- Case Study: Accurate handover and preparing for discharge
- Legislation and medicines
- Task: Off-label medicinal products prescribing
- Case study: Legislation and medicines
- Task: Roles and responsibilities of healthcare professionals in the prescribing process
- Task: Who can prescribe?
- Task: Discharge summary
- Case study: Accurate handover and preparing for discharge
Chapter 7. Adverse drug reactions
- What are adverse drug events, adverse drug reactions and side effects?
- How often do adverse drug reactions lead to hospitalisation?
- How are adverse drug reactions classified?
- Task: Incidence of ADRs
- Case Study: A suspected ADR
- Serious and severe adverse drug reactions
- Looking at ADR Reports
- Which patient groups are most at risk of suffering an adverse drug reaction?
- Which drugs potentially cause more adverse drug reactions?
- Task: Common drugs causing ADRs
- Confusing new symptoms with ADRs
- Case Study: Confusing adverse drug reactions with new diseases
- Adverse drug reactions and differential diagnosis
- Task: Common adverse drug reactions 1
- Task: Common adverse drug reactions 2
- How do you know if the symptoms identified are an adverse drug reaction?
- How can you reduce the risk of adverse drug reactions?
- How do you report adverse drug reactions?
- Prescribing errors
- Task: National Patient Safety Agency
- What are the consequences of prescribing errors?
- Task: Prescribing errors
- Never events
- Task: Active failures & Latent alerts
- Preventing prescribing errors
- Task: Knowledge based mistakes
- Case study: Theophylline
- Case study: Preventing prescribing errors
- Case study: Acute coronary syndrome
Chapter 10: Prescribing red flag medicines
Chapter 11: Prescription review & Drug monitoring
Chapter 13: Dealing with specific medical groups
- Prescribing for the older person
- Prescribing for patients with renal impairment
- Prescribing for patients with liver disease
- Case Study: Anti-Emetics
- Prescribing for paediatric patients
- Task: Chloramphenicol
- Task: Trimethoprim
- Task: Acyclovir
- Task: Antihistamine
- Prescribing in pregnancy
- Task: Prescribing in pregnancy
- Prescribing in breast-feeding
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