Courses Handbook 2008 - [ Archived ]

303178 (v.2) Pharmacotherapy 325


Area: School of Pharmacy
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.5
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 3 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2.5 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 2998 (v.4) Chemotherapy 224 or any previous version
AND
8013 (v.5) Pharmacology 224 or any previous version
Syllabus: Concepts of Pharmaceutical care, patient assessment, patient education, patient monitoring and evidence-based medicine. Cardiovascular risk, hypertension, ischaemic heart disease, heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias. Constipation and diarrhoea, dyspepsia,peptic ulcer disease, gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome. Tuberculosis, pneumonia and urinary tract infection. Diabetes mellitus Asthma, chronic airways limitation. Otitis externa, otitis media, sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, laryngitis, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, the common cold, influenza and infectious mononucleosis. Renal disorders. Pressure, arterial, venous and diabetic ulcers. Ocular disorders including styes, chalazions, dacryocystitis, conjunctivitis and glaucoma.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 060117 Internal Medicine
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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