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This video covers the basis for placing drugs into therapeutic and pharmacological classes and the prototype approach to drug classification. It describes drug's mechanism of action, distinguishes between a drug's chemical name, generic name, and trade name, and explains why generic drug names are preferred to other trade name drugs. Students learn why drugs are sometimes placed on a restrictive list and the controversy surrounding this issue and "controlled substance" category. The video lecture explores the U.S. Controlled Substance Act of 1970 and the role of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency in controlling drug abuse and misuse and the drug schedules and examples of drugs at each level together with explanations on how drugs are scheduled according to Parts III and IV of the Canadian Food and Drugs Act and the Narcotic Control Act.
This lecture reviews the fundamental divisions of the nervous system, primary functions, actions of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. It explains the process of synaptic transmission and the neurotransmitters important to the autonomic nervous system and the types of responses that occur when a drug activates Alpha-1 (a1), Alpha-2 (a2), Beta-1 (ß1), or Beta-2 (ß2)–adrenergic receptors. The video lecture describes the nurse's role in the pharmacological management of patients receiving medications affecting the autonomic nervous system. For each of the drug classes listed in Drugs At A Glance, student should be able to explain the mechanism of drug action, primary actions, and important adverse effects and the nursing process to care for patients receiving parasympathomimetics, anticholinergics, sympathomimetics, and adrenergic-blockers.
This video looks at the relationship between atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease and describes the blood supply to the myocardium. It explains the pathophysiology of angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, and cerebrovascular accident (commonly known as stroke) and the nurse's role in the pharmacological management of patients with angina, myocardial infarction, and cerebrovascular accident. For each of the drug classes listed in Drugs at a Glance, it explains the mechanism of drug action, primary actions, and important adverse effects. This lecture attempts to categorize drugs used in the treatment of angina, myocardial infarction, and cerebrovascular accident based on their classifications and mechanisms of action. Students learn how to use the nursing process to care for patients who are receiving drug therapy for angina, myocardial infarction, and cerebrovascular accident.
This video lecture looks at the common signs and symptoms of inflammation and outlines the basic steps in the acute inflammatory response. It differentiates between H1 and H2 histamine receptors and some common causes, signs and symptoms of allergic rhinitis. The lecture covers the nurse's role in the pharmacological treatment of inflammation, fever, and allergies. For each of the classes listed in Drugs at a Glance, it identifies representative drugs, and explains the mechanism of drug action, primary actions related to inflammation and/or allergies, and important adverse effects. The video categorizes drugs used in the treatment of inflammation, fever, and allergies based on their classifications and mechanisms of action. Students learn how to use the nursing process to care for patients receiving drug therapy for inflammation, fever, and allergies.
This lecture relates the importance of pain assessment to effective pharmacotherapy and explains the neural mechanism for pain at the level of the spinal cord. The video looks at how pain can be controlled by inhibiting the release of spinal neurotransmitters and the role of non-pharmacologic therapies in pain management and substances with pharmacologic activity contained in opium. It compares and contrasts the types of opioid receptors and their importance to pharmacology, role of opioid antagonists in the diagnosis and treatment of acute opioid toxicity. Students learn the long-term treatment of opioid dependence and compare the pharmacotherapeutic approaches of preventing migraines to those of aborting migraines. The lecture describes the nurse's role in the pharmacological management of patients receiving analgesics and anti-migraine medications and for each of the drug classes listed in Drugs at a Glance, explains the mechanism of drug action, primary actions, and important adverse effects and categorizing drugs used in the treatment of pain based on their classification and mechanism of action. Use the nursing process to care for patients receiving drug therapy for pain.
This video describes fundamental concepts underlying a holistic approach to pharmacotherapy, components of the Human Integration Pyramid model and psychosocial and spiritual factors that can impact pharmacotherapeutics. It explains how ethnicity can affect pharmacotherapeutic outcomes and gives specific examples of how cultural values and beliefs can influence pharmacotherapeutic outcomes. Students learn how community and environmental factors can affect healthcare outcomes and convey an understanding on how genetic polymorphisms can influence pharmacotherapy as it also relates the implications of gender to the actions of certain drugs.
This video introduces some of the key events in the history of pharmacology; it looks at the interdisciplinary nature of pharmacology, giving examples of subject areas needed to learn the discipline well. The introductory lecture covers compares and contrasts therapeutics with pharmacology, traditional drugs, biologics, and alternative therapies. Students are introduced to the advantages and disadvantages of prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs and key U.S. drug regulations that have ensured the safety and efficacy of medications, the role of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the drug approval process and stages of approval for therapeutic and biologic drugs. The video lecture describes the Canadian drug approval process and identifies similarities with how drugs are approved in the United States.
This video looks at the ethical principles contained in the ANA Code of Ethics are used to guide nurses in their practice as it applies general moral principles to the effective administration of medications. It describes how Nurse Practice Acts is designed to protect the public. It discusses the standards of care in the application of the nursing process and explains the importance of documentation in the administration of medications; factors contributing to medication errors and process in reporting medication errors. Furthermore, the lecture discusses strategies that the nurse may implement to prevent medication errors.
This video describes the steps of the Nursing Process in the pharmacology perspective as it identifies assessment data to be gathered pertinent to medication administration. It helps students develop appropriate nursing diagnoses for patients receiving medications and set realistic goals and outcomes during the planning stage for patients receiving medications. Students learn key intervention strategies to be carried out for patients receiving medications, evaluate the outcomes of medication administration and when giving medications, apply the Nursing Process using the Nursing Process Focus flowcharts.
This video looks on the applications of pharmacodynamics to clinical practice and how frequency response curves may be used to explains how patients respond differently to medications. It explains the importance of the median effective dose (ED50) to clinical practice, median lethal dose (LD50) and median toxicity dose (TD50). It explains how a drug's therapeutic index is related to its margin of safety and the significance of the graded dose-response relationship to clinical practice. Important terms such as potency and efficacy and discusses while distinguishing between an agonist, partial agonist, and antagonist. Students learn the relationship between receptors and drug action and possible future developments in the field of pharmacogenetics.
This video looks at the applications of pharmacokinetics to clinical practice by identifying its components. It explains how substances travel across plasma membranes, factors affecting drug absorption and transportation across membranes, metabolism of drugs and its applications to pharmacotherapy. The video looks at how drugs are distributed throughout the body and how plasma proteins affect drug distribution; meanwhile looking at the major processes by which drugs are excreted. The lecture outlines how enterohepatic recirculation might affect drug activity and the applications of a drug's plasma half-life (t1/2) to pharmacotherapy as it explores on how a drug reaches and maintains its therapeutic range in the plasma focusing on the differences between loading and maintenance doses.
This video looks at medication administration as a component of safe, effective nursing care, utilizing the nursing process. It describes the roles and responsibilities of the nurse regarding medication administration and looks at the five "rights" of medication administration impact patient safety. It gives specific examples of how the nurse can increase patient compliance in taking medications; and helps students with interpretation of medication orders that contain abbreviations. The video looks at the systems of measurement used in pharmacology and explainss the proper methods to administer enteral, topical, and parenteral medications while highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of each route of drug administration.
Pharmacodynamics is the study of how drugs affect the body. The goal of drug therapy is to achieve a good outcome, a therapeutic effect. It is important to bear in mind that not all drug actions are beneficial. Medications may result in both therapeutic and toxic effects. This program provides a basic overview of pharmacodynamics.
Pharmacokinetics is the study of what happens to a drug from the time of administration until the parent drug and all metabolites leave the body. This process includes absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion. This program provides a basic overview of pharmacokinetics.
This program provides viewers with an overview of how the use of medication is incorporated as part of the overall process of patient assessment, diagnosis, care planning, implementation, and evaluation.
This program focuses on those aspects of pharmacology that most impact patient care. These include: therapeutic equivalence, pharmaceutics, the three phases of drug action, toxicology, pharmacognosy, absorption of medications, and site of drug action. An understanding of these aspects of pharmacology is critical if healthcare professionals are to provide safe and effective medication administration.
Virtual Pharmacy Externship for Technicians simulates a retail pharmacy. Step into this virtual pharmacy and interact with customers; work on prescriptions; interact with pharmacists, physicians, and insurance representatives; prepare medication labels; and handle inventory or store management tasks. Through the use of dynamic video and interactive tasks, emphasis is placed on critical thinking and problem solving. Choose your own path while progressing through the scenarios. The decisions you make impact the outcome and your virtual pharmacist provides feedback as you work through real-life problems in a pharmacy. Soft skills, such as customer interaction, and hard skills, such as completion of a patient profile and fulfillment of a prescription, are fully integrated to make this a complete learning experience.
Polypharmacy in the aged is a major patient safety issue in the United States today. Medication errors due to polypharmacy can involve severe and even life-threatening side effects or drug interactions. This video reviews the causes of polypharmacy in the elderly and identifies patients who are at risk for medication errors due to polypharmacy. It also discusses steps that primary care physicians can take to reduce the risk for medication errors in elderly patients who are taking multiple drugs to treat coexisting conditions. The use of a handheld electronic device such as a personal digital assistant (PDA) to assess potential medication errors is emphasized, as is the vital role of the pharmacist in helping to identify medications that are more likely to cause severe adverse effects or drug interactions in the elderly. Two hypothetical patient cases based on real-life situations are presented to illustrate how to assess and manage elderly patients who are at risk for polypharmacy-related adverse effects. Tips for educating elderly patients and their caregivers to avoid complications from prescription drugs and from over-the-counter medications and herbal agents also are provided.
This program can be used to train and educate clinical care providers, pharmacists, physicians and new hires about the JCAHO medication management requirements for each discipline.
Your staff will learn:
Key processes that lead to optimal medication management
Kevin M. Furmaga, PharmD; Michael Koronkowski, PharmD; Vinod Kumar, MD, MRC
Topics include: Pathophysiology and Non-Cognitive Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease; Cognitive Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease; Future Directions in Drug Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease.
Thomas O'Conner, PharmD, MBA; Michael A. Mancano, PharmD; Barbara Goppold, RPh
Identify the four basic types of pharmacoeconomic analyses; Discuss and categorize the types of relevant costs; Evaluate the criteria for a well designed pharmacoeconomic study; Interpret study results; Suggest the most appropriate treatment modality based upon study results; Identify the potential value and uses of pharmacoeconomic research in the managed care environment.
Registered Pharmacists today can be found in hospitals, retail pharmacies and other settings
They handle an important responsibility, that of dispensing an ever-growing variety of complex medications
A pharmacist is a health professional who must understand the fundamentals of the human body and how medications interact with the function of the body, plus how they interact together
Art Matthys, RPh; William Letender, MS, RPh; Dave Mason, RPh; Loyd Allen, PhD
Define the terms pharmacy, manufacturing, compounding, and triad; Identify areas where pharmacists can solve non-compliance problems using compounding services; List the unique dosage forms that are available to healthcare professionals. Understand how pharmacists meet the unique needs of patients at their practice sites; List the factors that exempt pharmacists from the Federal Food and Drug and Cosmetic Act; Realize the value of compounding services in terms of patient compliance and patient needs. Identify areas of practice could potentially benefit compounding; Select a course of action to take when filling a compounded prescription .
Mickey Smith, RPh, PhD; Jack Fincham, RPh, PhD; J. Lyle Bootman, RPh, PhD; Kent Summers, RPh, PhD; Albert I. Wertheimer, RPh, PhD
Describes the methods of detecting and predicting non-compliance, identifies the economic consequences of non-compliance to healthcare generally and in pharmacy practice, and discusses how to choose interventions best suited to enhance compliance.