Medication
Administration
/Advanced
Pharmacology

Certification
 
   
Medication Administration was designed to help RNs and RPNs perform their roles in medication administration with confidence.

The course outlines the College of Nurses of Ontario’s (CNO) standard of nursing practice with special emphasis on professional accountabilities on medication administration, dispensing, storage, inventory management and disposal along with related principles that promote patient’s welfare and safety.

The course extensively explore relevant principles of pharmacodynamics, pharmacotherapeutics, and pharmacokinetics, relevant care, actions, interactions, and side effects of commonly used drugs.

Whether you’re working in the hospital’s med-surgical unit/acute setting; nursing homes or clinics, Nurses Education’s med admin program will be of great value when managing your patient’s drug therapy and administering medications.

Program Objectives:

Discuss the legal, ethical, and ethnocultural nursing implications in pharmacology.
Discuss, explore, and learn the 3 principles on medication practices (authority, competence, and safety) that guards and promote client’s safety.
Discuss and learn the principles of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacotherapeutics and toxicology.
Enable the learners to conceptualize the physiological effects of medications on the human body.
Place special emphasis on the importance of appropriate use of medications based on established and accepted treatment protocols.
To illustrate to the learners that strong knowledge of adverse reactions and drug-drug interactions are the basis for the appropriate utilization of the therapeutic agents.
To expand the leaner’s knowledge-based of different classification of the therapeutic agents and their recommended doses.
To develop and provide a comprehensive program appropriate to client’s education regarding prescribed drugs.

 
 
     
 
   
   
   
Medication Administration/ Advanced Pharmacology Certification
$550.00
(Incl. tax, Textbook and Certificate)

This is a four-day course.

Please note with groups of 5 or more we could create a class any day starting as early as 9am and ending as late as 9pm.

Prerequisite:
Students must be Registered Practical Nurses, Registered Nurses or other healthcare professions which practice
(Medication Administration/ Advanced Pharmacology) within their scope of work.

Date: 2020:
  January 28, 29, 30, 31
  February 25, 26, 27, 28
  March 26, 27, 30, 31
  April 27, 28, 29, 30
  May 26, 27, 28, 29
  June 25, 26, 29, 30
  July 28, 29, 30, 31
  August 25, 26, 27, 28
  September 25, 28, 29,30
  October 27, 28, 29, 30
  November 25, 26, 27, 30
  December TBD
 
Time: 9:30am - 4:30pm