Chapter 1: The Role of the Advanced Practice Nurse as Prescriber
- Roles and responsibilities of APRN prescribers:
- Clinical judgement in Prescribing:
- Collaboration with other providers:
Chapter 2: Review of Basic Principles of Pharmacology
- How Drugs are Developed:
- Preclinical stage
- Clinical stage
- Drug Responses:
- Pharmacokinetics: Absorption, Distribution, Protein Binding, Metabolism (including first-pass and Phase I and II)
- Absorption:
- Distribution:
- Protein Binding:
- Metabolism:
- Cytochrome P450 metabolism:
- Excretion:
- Renal:
- Biliary:
- Other:
Chapter 3: Rational Drug Selection
- Process of rational drug prescribing: 6 Steps proposed by WHO
- Define the patient’s problem
- Specify therapeutic objective
- Choose the treatment
- Start the treatment
- Educate the patient
- Monitor effectiveness
- Patient education:.
- Monitor effectiveness:
- Drug, Patient, and Provider factors that influence drug selection:
- Influences on Rational Prescribing: Pharmaceutical Promotion:
- When Prescribing Recommendations Change: antibiotic resistance and overprescribing of antibiotics for URIs:
Chapter 4: Legal and Professional Issues in Prescribing
- New Drug Approval process including Clinical Phases:
- U.S. FDA Regulatory Jurisdiction:
- Controlled Substance Laws:
- Controlled Drug DEA schedules (Table 4-1):
- Controlled Substance Misuse: Prescriber Education
- Enabling:
- When you suspect a Patient is Misusing Medications:
- State Law:
- Writing and Transmitting the Prescription:
- Ethical Aspects of Prescribing:
Chapter 5: Adverse Drug Reactions
I. Mechanistic classification of ADR
II. Time related ADRS
III. Dose related ADRS
IV. Severity of ADRS
V. Common causes of ADRS
VI. Risk factors
Chapter 6: Factors that Foster Positive Outcomes
- Overview of nonadherence
- Keys to effective patient education
- Health and Cultural beliefs
- Health Literacy
- Complexity of Drug Regimen and Polypharmacy
- Collaborative management
- 4 steps
- Personalized drug schedules
- Simplifying the Regimen
- Communication Difficulties
Chapter 7: Cultural and Ethnic Influences in Pharmacotherapeutics
- Cultural Influences on Care
- Ethnopharmacology
Chapter 9: Nutrition and Nutraceuticals
- Nutrient-Drug Interactions (eg warfarin and vit K)
- Outcomes of Nutrient-Drug Interactions
Chapter 12: Pharmacoeconomics
- Impact of Generic Drugs on Drug Therapy
- Generic Substitution
- Prescribing Generic vs Brand-Name Medications:
Chapter 13: Over-the-counter Medications
Chapter 24: Drugs Used in Treating Infectious Diseases
- Antimicrobial Resistance:
- Antibiotics:
- Beta-Lactams:
- Acute Bronchitis and URI, Sinusitis
- Sinusitis:
- Acute Bronchitis and URI
- Pharyngitis:
- UTIS
- Skin and Tissue Infections(p. 700)
- H. pylori eradications (p. 700)
- Age, Pregnancy and Genetic Factors(p. 705)
- Fluoroquinolones:
- Macrolides:
- Systemic Azoles and other Antifungals:
- Sulfonamides, Trimethoprim, Nitrofurantoin and Fosfomycin:
- Tetracyclines:
- Antimycobacterials:
- Nucleoside Analogues:
- Antivirals for Influenza:
Instituition / Term | |
Term | Session 2019 |
Institution | Chamberlain |
Contributor | Malissa |