Description
This assignment helps clarify areas of opportunity from your personalized learning platform work and increases your learning about pharmacology and drugs that you might administer in clinical practice.
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NR293 Pharmacology for Nursing Practice
Active Learning Activity from Personalized Learning Platform Opportunities
Purpose: To expand understanding and application pharmacologic concepts for integration of these concepts to
support critical thinking.
Course outcomes: This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
CO1: Apply the concepts of pharmacotherapeutics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and
pharmacogenomics tothe use of specific medication classifications in specific health conditions and in
consideration of medication side/adverse effects, nursing implications, and medication teaching. (POs 1, 2,
and 3)
CO2: Apply principles of health promotion, as well as illness and injury prevention, to promote safety
and effectiveness of commonly used pharmacologic therapy across the lifespan, taking into
considerationsociocultural, genetic/genomic, developmental, and gender implications. (POs 3
and 8)
CO3: Utilize the nursing process in understanding the effects of drug therapy on health outcomes across the
lifespanwithin the framework of a diverse population of individuals, families, and communities. (PO 4)
CO4: Examine the professional nursing roles of care manager, educator, researcher, and advocate in
relation topharmacologic therapy and within the framework of a diverse population of individuals,
families, and communities. (POs 6 and 7)
Due date: Your faculty member will inform you when this assignment is due. The Late Assignment Policy
appliesto this assignment.
Total points possible: 50 points each; 200 points in course
Preparing the assignment
Follow these guidelines when completing this assignment. Speak with your faculty member if you have questions.
1. Complete one Medication Concept Map for the selected drug classes (faculty will pick class of medication based
on personalized learning platform (PLP) opportunities for improvement from completed PLP concepts).
2. Include the following sections for each Medication Concept Map. (50 points/100%)
• Medication – Medication Type
• Category Class – Drug class
• Expected Pharmacological Mechanism of Action
• Therapeutic Uses
• Contraindications (minimum 3)
• Medication Administration
• Complications (minimum 3)
• Nursing Specific Interventions/Implications (minimum 3)
• Interactions (minimum 3)
• Client Education (minimum 3)
• Evaluation of Medication Effectiveness
• Use appropriate resources and ideas to support topic with APA references
• Fewer than three unique errors in grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and/or spelling are present and
if handwritten information is legible.
3. Concept map template is on the final page of this guideline.
For writing assistance (APA, formatting, or grammar) visit the Writing Center.
Please note that your instructor may provide you with additional assessments in any form to determine that you
fully understand the concepts learned in the review module.
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NR293 Pharmacology for Nursing Practice
Active Learning Activity from Personalized Learning Platform Opportunities
Grading Rubric: Criteria are met when the student’s application of knowledge demonstrates achievement of the outcomes for this assignment.
Assignment Section
and Required Criteria
(Points possible/% of total points available)
Medication Active Learning Template
(50 points/100%)
Highest Level of
Performance
High Level of
Performance
50 points
40 points
39 points
Includes 10 or
more required
criteria.
Includes 9 or
more required
criteria.
Includes all listed
Required Criteria
required criteria.
Include the following for each Medication ALT:
• Medication – Medication Type
• Category Class – Drug Class
• Expected Pharmacological Mechanism of
Action
• Therapeutic Uses
• Complications (minimum 3)
• Medication Administration
• Contraindications (minimum 3)
• Nursing Specific Interventions/ Implications
•
•
•
•
•
Satisfactory Levelof Unsatisfactory Level of Section Not Present
Performance
Performance
35 points
Includes 8 or
less required
criteria.
0 points
No criteria for this
section present.
(minimum 3)
Interactions (minimum 3)
Evaluation of Medication Effectiveness
Client Education (minimum 3)
APA reference(s)
Fewer than three unique errors in grammar,
capitalization, punctuation, and/or spelling
are present and if handwritten information is
legible.
Total Points Possible = 50 points
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Expected Pharmacological Mechanism of
Action (How it Works)
Name____________________________________
Therapeutic Uses (Indications)
References
Medication Administration (Dose and
Route)
Contraindications (minimum 3)
Medication Name (Generic Name)
and Type
Drug Class
Nursing Specific Interventions/Implications
(minimum 3)
Complications (minimum 3)
Client Education (minimum 3)
Interactions (minimum 3)
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