SYKP1300 Pharmacology and Administration of Medicine Course description

This course introduces students to basic pharmacology, drug administration and drug calculation. They will learn about the connection between drug administration and patient safety and about the accuracy requirements that apply to working with drugs. This is an introductory course in pharmacology and drug administration, and the theme will be continued in the second and third years of study.

With the development of sensing technologies, transport digitalization generates and provides numerous data from different resources. This course will introduce models and applications of transport systems analysis in the context of transport studies and gain deeper insight into how these models help with the decision‐making process. Topics to be covered include data preprocessing, travel studies and analysis of data; machine learning methods; transportation systems forecast and analyses. Moreover, the course will provide a brief introduction to future sensing technologies and deep learning methods. The methods cover by this course will closely link to real world transport problem, such as travel demand modelling, accessibility, last-mile problem and other related issues.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student is capable of

• describing different types of medication, administration methods, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
• describing interactions and side effects of the use of selected drugs
• describing different reasons for variations in the response to drugs
• describing generic drug substitution and applying the Norwegian Medicines Agency's substitution list or local substitution list
• describing the procedure for handling drugs from the drug is prescribed until the patient has taken it or it has been disposed of
• referring to relevant legislation and regulations for the use of drugs, including guidelines for documentation, handling of non-conformities and disposal
• giving an account of the risk of addiction and abuse of drugs

Skills

The student is capable of

• carrying out independent and faultless calculations of drug dosages, quantities and strengths using different methods of administration
• assessing and checking their own and other people’s calculations
• using reference works such as Felleskatalogen and Legemiddelhåndboka

Competence

The student is capable of

• planning and carrying out responsible drug administration and quality assuring the individual patient’s use of drugs

This course will consist of lectures, one seminar (with invited lecturers, discussions and presentations), and lab sessions to provide theoretical content and preliminary hands-on experience. The students will be involved in peer feedback and the students are given a project task to work in groups during the semester.

Two individual assignments must be approved. Students who fail to meet the coursework requirements can be given up to one re-submission opportunity.

1) All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

2) None

Graded scale A-F.

1) Two internal examiners

2) Two internal examiners

External examiners are used regularly.

None.

SYKK1300 and SYKP1300 overlap 100 %.