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Neonatal Drug Therapy - 2010

This online course is designed as a pharmacology update for nurse practitioners at the advanced practice level. Each module focuses on current recommendations and controversies regarding drug therapy for common problems encountered in the neonatal intensive care unit and include appropriate pharmacotherapeutic principles and recommendations for patient education.

Lectures were recorded in March 2010 at a conference in Seattle, Washington sponsored by the University of Washington School of Nursing. Teaching methods include lecture and downloadable handouts.

Course Objectives
After taking this course, you will be better able to:

  1. Describe relevant principles of physiology, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
  2. Give a rationale for selecting a drug of choice.
  3. Identify the goals of drug therapy.
  4. Identify desired drug effects and evaluate patient response.
  5. Describe special dosage situations.
  6. Identify appropriate patient learning needs.

Details: Entire Course and Individual Modules

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COURSE REGISTRATION
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 Register for entire course 8.4 8.4  $195.00  Details
INDIVIDUAL MODULE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
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Adrenal insufficiency 

 Adrenal Insufficiency in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants: Clinical Considerations for Diagnosis and Treatment  1.5 1.5 $30.00  Details

Drugs at Birth 

 Bugs and Drugs at Birth: Do We Know What We Are Doing?  1.2 1.2 $30.00  Details

Erythropoietin 

 Erythropoietin and the Brain  1.0 1 $30.00  Details

Neonatal Sepsis 

 The Role of G-CSF and IVIG in Neonatal Sepsis  1.0 1 $30.00  Details

Oxygen 

 Can a Baby Be Too Pink? Use of Oxygen in Neonatal Resuscitation  1.4 1.4 $30.00  Details

Sedation 

 Neonatal Sedation: Do We Know What We're Doing?  1.0 1 $30.00  Details

Vaccines 

 Vaccines in the NICU  1.5 1.5 $30.00  Details
 

*Pharmacology at the advanced practice level.





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