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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - NGR6262
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Approved, Permanent Archive - 2004-03-18
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2003-06-13
- Department: Nursing
- College: NR
- Budget Account Number: 6201-000-20
- Contact Person: Judith Karshmer
- Phone: (813)9749229
- Email: jkarshme@hsc.usf.edu
- Prefix: NGR
- Number: 6262
- Full Title: GeroPharmacology for Adv Nurse Practitoners
- Credit Hours: 1
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): GeroPharm Adv Nur Practit
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
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- Course Description: Focus on pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes unique to the elderly along with the potential adverse drug effects and factors that affect therapeutic decision-making
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Specialty content required for graduates to be eligible for certification
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? Required course in Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Concentration
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Will be offered as special topics in Fall 2003
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Nurse Practitioner and PhD
- Objectives: 1. Explain how the pharmacokinetic processes of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion are affected by the aging process
2. Identify potential adverse drug interactions and their consequences among the elderly.
3. Analyze the relationship between pharmacodynamic mechanisms and the psychological and physiologic aspect of aging.
4. Describe essential patient/family education for expected effects, potential adverse effects, proper administration, and costs of medications.
5. Determine correct dosages, dosage form, routes, and frequency of administration of medications for geriatric population.
- Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain how the pharmacokinetic processes of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion are affected by the aging process
2. Identify potential adverse drug interactions and their consequences among the elderly.
3. Analyze the relationship between pharmacodynamic mechanisms and the psychological and physiologic aspect of aging.
4. Describe essential patient/family education for expected effects, potential adverse effects, proper administration, and costs of medications.
5. Determine correct dosages, dosage form, routes, and frequency of administration of medications for geriatric population.
- Major Topics: Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes unique to the elderly
Potential adverse drug reactions
Prescribing guidelines
- Textbooks: Bressler, R. & Katz. M. (2003) Geriatric Pharmacology, 2nd edition. , McGraw-Hill Professional.
Semla, T. Geriatric Dosage Handbook: Monitoring, Clinical Recommendations, and Obra Guidelines, 8th edition (2003) Lexi Comp.
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.