Pharmacology Course For Nurses

What will I learn?

Improve your nursing skills with our Pharmacology Course for Nurses, tailored to boost your clinical decision-making and medicine safety skills in a Zambian setting. Learn the basics of pharmacology, get to know commonly used medicines, and become good at assessing risks and thinking about ethical issues. Learn how to spot bad reactions to medicines and put good safety plans in place. By thinking about what you do and using what you learn in real situations, this course helps you to use pharmacology smoothly in caring for patients, so they get the best possible care.

Develop your skills

Enhance your practical skills listed below

Get good at pharmacodynamics: Understand how medicines work and interact well.

Get better at making clinical decisions: Improve how you assess risks and think about what's right and wrong.

Spot adverse reactions: Recognise and manage side effects and when medicines shouldn't be used.

Put safety plans in place: Create and use effective ways to keep medicine use safe.

Use pharmacology in your work: Smoothly include pharmacology in how you care for patients.

Suggested summary

Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

Before starting, you can change the chapters and workload.

  • Choose which chapter to start with
  • Add or remove chapters
  • Increase or decrease the course workload

Examples of chapters you can add

You will be able to generate more chapters similar to the examples below

This is a free course aimed at personal and professional development. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but provides practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.