PN 125 Pharmacology for Practical Nursing
is designed to provide practical nursing students an introduction to the principles of pharmacology with emphasis on safe and effective drug administration. Emphasizes drug classes, rationale for use, dosage, therapeutic, adverse and side effects, integration of legal, ethical, other social factors and nursing implications. The nursing process is applied to drug therapy. This course is applicable toward all certificates and degrees; areas of concentration include practical nursing (credit hours 3.0, lecture hours 3.0).