Pharmacology

General

• Code: 278-190206
• Semester: 2nd
• Study Level: Undergraduate
• Course type: General Background
• Teaching and exams language: Greek
• Teaching Methods (Hours/Week): Theory (3)
• ECTS Units: 3
• Course homepage: https://moodle.teithe.gr/course/index.php?categoryid=196
• Instructors: Minos Georgios

Course Contents

• Introductory concepts and definitions. Use of medicines. The role of nurses in drug administration. Nurses and pharmaceutical services.
• Drug effect mechanisms on human body. Factors affecting the degree of safety and efficacy of drugs. Drug interactions.
• Drug administration routes. Side-effects. Development of new medicines.
• Drugs affecting the Central Nervous System. General anaesthesia, local anaesthetics and resuscitation. Epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease. Antipsychotics, anxiolytics and hypnotics. Antidepressants and dementia. Drug dependence.
• Endocrine system. Hypothalamic and pituitary axis. Hormones and metabolism: thyroid, parathyroid glands, calcitonin, insulin, diabetes mellitus, adrenal glands, hormones and reproduction.
• Drugs affecting the Circulatory System. Drugs treating angina. Drugs for heart failure.  Antihypertensive drugs.  Drugs used in Cardiovascular Arrhythmias. Drugs acting on Blood Coagulation. Drugs for Dyslipidemia. Practice, dose calculation.
• Drugs affecting the digestive system. Emetics and antiemetics, (Practice, dose calculation.
• Analgesia with narcotic substances
• Anti-inflammatory drugs and local hormones.
• Antibiotics (mode of action – β-lactam antibiotics – Aminoglycosides – Quinolones – Tetracyclines – Antibiotics against anaerobic microorganisms). Practice, dose calculation
• Antifungals, antivirals
• Drugs affecting the respiratory system. Practice, dose calculation.
• Drugs used in the treatment of neoplasms. Chemotherapeutic drugs

Educational Goals

The aim of the module is to understand the basic principles of safe and effective drug administration for the most common diseases in a clinical setting. Students will become familiar with the actions, effects, side effects and interactions of drugs with other drugs. The student will have the ability to recognize side effects depending on the clinical condition of the patients.

General Skills

• Adapting to new situations.
• Decision-making.
• Working independently.
• Team work.
• Project planning and management.
• Respect for difference and multiculturalism.
• Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues.
• Working in an interdisciplinary environment.
• Production of free, creative and inductive thinking.

Teaching Methods

Face to face.

Use of ICT means

• Presentation of the lesson with powerpoint.
• Communication with students by e-mail.
• Support of the learning process through the electronic platform moodle.

Teaching Organization

Students Evaluation

• Written exams.