Understanding Medications and Therapeutics

Name: Understanding Medications and Therapeutics
Rating: 4.7 (198 reviews)

Helping you build the best foundation to truly understand medications and develop clinical reasoning skills

(198 ratings)

3,362 students

Created by Ken Wojcikowski

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Start developing your problem solving and clinical reasoning skills

Truly enjoy creating the best foundation for a career in health care

Streamline your studies by understanding and picturing how medications work

Quickly and easily identify 42 of the top 200 most prescribed medications

Learn safety strategies that can be applied to all medications and disorders

Apply information about medications to make it easier to understand and remember

Requirements

A basic understanding of the normal function of the human body (human physiology) will be helpful

Description

This course is aimed at streamlining your work, ultimately making it much easier for you to become a competent health care worker. You will learn how to quickly identify 42 of the top 200 medications, picture how medications work, develop safe practice, and develop clinical reasoning and problem-solving skills. With the best foundation in health care, you will have fewer limitations.

Who this course is for:

Nursing and allied health students
Nurses and allied health care workers
Students considering a career in medicine or healthcare in the future
Family member who wants to help understand the medication being taken

5 sections • 75 lectures • 5h 8m total length

Introduction; Aims of first half of chapter (section) 1
04:22
Practice using active learning to develop problem solving skills
04:25
Best approach to learning medications; Understanding reflux
07:19
Practice applying knowledge to develop safe practice and problem solving skills
04:10
Antacids, chemical reactions, osmosis and drug to drug reactions
05:09
Practice developing clinical reasoning and problem solving skills
01:54
Best approach to learning medications; Overview and aims of chapter (section) 1B
03:13
Practice 'coaching' the client for optimal compliance
03:03
Picturing the GIT and how it is controlled; Safety issues of constipation
07:28
Practice developing clinical reasoning skills; The most important symptoms
03:27
Safety issues; What happens when you take more than the recommended dose?
04:20
Practice helping clients understand the safety issues of OTC pain killers
03:12
Understanding 'pro-drugs', stimulant laxatives and rebound effects
05:07
Practice developing problem solving skills with enteric coated medications
02:21
Understanding the remaining laxatives
02:44
Practice safety: 'Strictly contraindicated' vs 'contraindicated'
04:32
Chapter/section summary; Developing confidence
02:07

Overview and aims of chapter
04:22
Practice developing safe strategies using dehydration as the example
05:17
The naming of drugs and which name to remember
02:28
Practice identifying 20 of the top 200 most prescribed medications (it's easy!)
06:00
Picturing the pain pathways and our natural opioids
08:21
Practice developing clinical reasoning skills and safety strategies
02:59
Picturing the types of cellular receptors and what happens after drug binding
05:31
Practice explaining the rebound pain that occurs with opioids
03:51
Understanding terms used when drugs affect a receptor
07:38
Practice applying your knowledge: Affinity, selectivity and potency
03:44
Picturing agonists, antagonists partial agonists and inverse agonists
08:53
Practice developing problem solving skills: partial agonists
03:30
Exactly how is it that an opioid causes constipation?
02:50
Practice picturing opioid blockers (antagonists)
02:18
Chapter summary: Building confidence
03:11

Chapter (Section) 3 introduction and aims
03:37
Practice defining pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
01:14
Picturing the absorption rate associated with different modes of administration
03:32
Practice estimating maximum concentration (C-max) of drugs
02:55
Picturing absorption
03:44
Practice estimating absorption rate of different modes of administration
02:51
Distribution of drugs: First pass, protein binding
03:48
Practice developing problem solving skills using protein binding of drugs
03:35
Picturing metabolism of drugs: Cytochrome P450, Fist pass, Pro-drugs, Phase 1/2
06:57
Practice developing problem solving skills using the metabolism of drugs
03:23
Excretion of drugs: Half life, first order kinetics, zero order kinetics
03:12
Practice applying your knowledge of half-life
02:01
Quickly identify 22 of the 200 most prescribed medications
05:21
Practice identifying 34 of the top 200 most prescribed medications
05:38
Ranitidine and other Histamine 2 receptor blockers
02:18
Practice developing problem solving skills by predicting side effects
03:02
Furthering your understanding of Histamine 2 blockers and selectivity.
03:23
Practice explaining the difference between Histamine 1 vs Histamine 2
01:52
Chapter (section) review
03:09

Chapter (section) overview and aims
03:38
Practice applying information about enzymes: irreversible inhibition
02:18
Fun pharmacokinetics: A tour of the fate of a drug after oral administration
12:19
Practice developing problem solving skills about bioavailability
03:23
Picturing enzymatic inhibitors
07:50
Practice relating enzymatic inhibition to other drugs (aspirin)
02:29
Picturing inhibition of an enzymatic pump
06:21
Practice explaining that pump
01:58
Why do enzymatic inhibitors have side effects?
06:40
Practice applying knowledge about enzymatic inhibitors and inducers.
02:13
Understanding proton pump inhibitors and pregnancy categories
08:19
Practice identifying 42 of the top 200 drugs
03:36
Chapter review
06:28

Developing confidence; Overview and aims of chapter
02:47
Few medications decrease nausea by directly affecting the GIT
01:40
Neurons, neurotransmitters and drugs that work on neurons
06:01
Picturing drugs working on neurons
03:32
Safety issues associated with vomiting
03:04
Developing safe practice
01:32
A clear picture of the vomiting pathway: 3 totally different antiemetics
05:50
Clinical applications of antihistamines and anticholinergic agents
03:16
Antiemetics: Blocking serotonin 3 and dopamine 2
02:30
Developing clinical reasoning skills: Clinical use of antiemetics
03:58
Congratulations, you now have the best foundation in pharmacology!
01:32

Ken Wojcikowski

Lecturer at University

4.7 Instructor Rating
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3,362 Students
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Ken Wojcikowski, aka DrKWojo, has a PhD in pharmacology from the University of Queensland and an MSc in pharmacology/pharmacognosy from Southern Cross University. He has 20 years' experience teaching biomedical science courses at university level. In 2015, he was awarded an Australian National Teaching Citation for 'Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning'.

Understanding Medications and Therapeutics

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for:

Course content

Introduction17 lectures • 1hr 9min

Chapter (section) 215 lectures • 1hr 11min

Absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (pharmacokinetics made easy)19 lectures • 1hr 6min

Chapter (section) 413 lectures • 1hr 8min

Chapter (section) 5: You got this!11 lectures • 36min

Instructor