10NE068e - Pharmacology: Simplify, Don't Mystify (Video E-Course)

Description

This is a video of a lecture by Barb Bancroft on the most common classes of drugs used in the world of medicine and nursing today. Learn about the 'prils', the 'sartans', the 'triptans', the 'dipines', the 'cyclovirs', the 'statins', the 'prazoles', the 'azoles', the 'glitazones', the 'floxacins', and the 'olols, alols, and ilols' and many more. Barb's way of learning Pharmacology is entertaining and enlightening. You'll learn about mechanisms of action with each class of drugs, clinical indications, adverse effects, drug and food interactions, and a whole lot more. After hearing this lecture you'll feel much more comfortable with your clinical expertise in Pharmacology.

This lecture was taken by permission from one of Barb's DVDs. The lecture includes her Powerpoint slides as a handout. There is also an electronic test to claim credit.

This activity may help you meet your learning plan in the NCBON Dimension of Practice:
Professional Responsibility: The licensed nurse is personally responsible and accountable for ensuring that her/his nursing practice and conduct meet the standards of the profession and comply with the Nursing Practice Act.
Knowledge-Based Practice: The licensed nurse is personally responsible and accountable for having the knowledge and skills for safe, competent nursing practice.
Collaborative Practice: The licensed nurse maintains safe and effective nursing care, in collaboration with the client, significant others, and other health care providers.

The Mountain Area Health Education Center's Department of Nursing Education is an Approved Provider of continuing nursing education by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Participants must attend entire activity to receive credit. No partial credit is given for this activity.
MAHEC adheres to the ANCC/ACCME Standards regarding industry support to continuing nursing education. Disclosure of presenters, planners, and commercial support relationships, if any, will be made known at the time of the activity.

The Mountain Area Health Education Center designates this continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for .5 CEUs as established by the National Task force on the Continuing Education Unit.

Target Audience

Licensed Practical Nurses Nurse Midwives Nurse Practitioners Nursing Assistant Registered Nurses RN Refresher Nurse

Objectives

• Differentiate among the various classes of drugs by using the "suffix" for each class
• Discuss the clinical uses of the above classes of drugs
• Discuss the common treatment regimens for selected clinical conditions
• Discuss clinical interactions with food and alternative therapies
• Identify strategies to teach the complex mechanisms of action for each of the above classes of drugs

Faculty

• Barb Bancroft, RN, MSN, PNP