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Grade Level:

6

Subject:

Intro to Pharmacology

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Goal Summary:

Students will be able to explain the background knowledge needed to be aware how medications work in the body before they can actually give medications. Students will also be able to explain the importance of identifying patients who are taking herbal products and the potential risk involved when taking these.

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Essential Questions:

1. What are nurses' responsibilities with respect to medications?
2. What is the role of the FDA?
3. What different guidelines apply to verbal orders for medications? (Review Box 31-3.)
4. What is the difference between the pharmaceutical, pharmacokinetic, and pharmacodynamics phases.
5. Why is it important to recognize ethnopharmacology?
6. What is the nurses' role when educated patient's about herbal products?

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Content Goals:

1. Explain the knowledge necessary for safe medication administration to patients with diverse needs.
2. Describe the physiological mechanisms of medication action.
3. Differentiate among different types of medication actions
4. Discuss factors that influence medication actions.
5. Discuss the nursing implications, including client teaching, related to herbal products
6. Identify professional nursing behaviors in the clinical setting that provide for the safety of patients receiving medication.

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