312169 (v.1) Pharmacotherapeutics 524

Area:	School of Pharmacy
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	3.0
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:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):
Syllabus:	The syllabus will consider the pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment of a range of acute and chronic conditions. This will include a consideration of the pathophysiology of these conditions, methods of diagnosis, management and outcomes and the factors which determine individual drug usage in these conditions, such as age, co-morbidities, concurrent drug usage, and others. The therapeutics of a range of infectious diseases, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, thyroid disease, gastrointestinal disorders, respiratory diseases, arthritis, mental health, renal disease, paediatric as well as geriatric therapeutics and pain management will be covered. Each set of lectures will be illustrated with appropriate case studies. Case studies appropriatefor each specialisation will be chosen as well as case studies illustrating therapeutic problems of general interest to all nurse practitioners. Students are also to submit one case study illustrative of the therapeutic problems specific for their area ofspecialisation.
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 Online *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
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 1			Y
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 2			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