NURS 117 - Pharmacology II

Credit(s): 2
Contact Hours: 2

The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to clinical therapy with emphasis on the knowledge needed to maximize therapeutic effects and prevent or minimize adverse effects of drugs. Major content areas include groups of therapeutic drugs, prototypes of drug groups, commonly prescribed individual drugs, effects on body tissues, human responses to drug therapy, in terms of pattern manifestation and applying assessment and evaluation, in relation to prescribed drug therapy regimens. Prerequisite: NURS 114.