Understanding Medications and Therapeutics

Name: Understanding Medications and Therapeutics
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Helping you build the best foundation to truly understand medications and develop clinical reasoning skills

Created byKen Wojcikowski

Last updated 2/2020

English

What you'll learn

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

Course content

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

Introduction; Aims of first half of chapter (section) 14:22
Practice using active learning to develop problem solving skills4:25
Best approach to learning medications; Understanding reflux7:19
Practice applying knowledge to develop safe practice and problem solving skills4:10
Antacids, chemical reactions, osmosis and drug to drug reactions5:09
Practice developing clinical reasoning and problem solving skills1:54
Best approach to learning medications; Overview and aims of chapter (section) 1B3:13
Practice 'coaching' the client for optimal compliance3:03
Picturing the GIT and how it is controlled; Safety issues of constipation7:28
Practice developing clinical reasoning skills; The most important symptoms3:27
Safety issues; What happens when you take more than the recommended dose?4:20
Practice helping clients understand the safety issues of OTC pain killers3:12
Understanding 'pro-drugs', stimulant laxatives and rebound effects5:07
Practice developing problem solving skills with enteric coated medications2:21
Understanding the remaining laxatives2:44
Practice safety: 'Strictly contraindicated' vs 'contraindicated'4:32
Chapter/section summary; Developing confidence2:07

Overview and aims of chapter4:22
Practice developing safe strategies using dehydration as the example5:17
The naming of drugs and which name to remember2:28
Practice identifying 20 of the top 200 most prescribed medications (it's easy!)6:00
Picturing the pain pathways and our natural opioids8:21
Practice developing clinical reasoning skills and safety strategies2:59
Picturing the types of cellular receptors and what happens after drug binding5:31
Practice explaining the rebound pain that occurs with opioids3:51
Understanding terms used when drugs affect a receptor7:38
Practice applying your knowledge: Affinity, selectivity and potency3:44
Picturing agonists, antagonists partial agonists and inverse agonists8:53
Practice developing problem solving skills: partial agonists3:30
Exactly how is it that an opioid causes constipation?2:50
Practice picturing opioid blockers (antagonists)2:18
Chapter summary: Building confidence3:11

Chapter (Section) 3 introduction and aims3:37
Practice defining pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics1:14
Picturing the absorption rate associated with different modes of administration3:32
Practice estimating maximum concentration (C-max) of drugs2:55
Picturing absorption3:44
Practice estimating absorption rate of different modes of administration2:51
Distribution of drugs: First pass, protein binding3:48
Practice developing problem solving skills using protein binding of drugs3:35
Picturing metabolism of drugs: Cytochrome P450, Fist pass, Pro-drugs, Phase 1/26:57
Practice developing problem solving skills using the metabolism of drugs3:23
Excretion of drugs: Half life, first order kinetics, zero order kinetics3:12
Practice applying your knowledge of half-life2:01
Quickly identify 22 of the 200 most prescribed medications5:21
Practice identifying 34 of the top 200 most prescribed medications5:38
Ranitidine and other Histamine 2 receptor blockers2:18
Practice developing problem solving skills by predicting side effects3:02
Furthering your understanding of Histamine 2 blockers and selectivity.3:23
Practice explaining the difference between Histamine 1 vs Histamine 21:52
Chapter (section) review3:09

Chapter (section) overview and aims3:38
Practice applying information about enzymes: irreversible inhibition2:18
Fun pharmacokinetics: A tour of the fate of a drug after oral administration12:19
Practice developing problem solving skills about bioavailability3:23
Picturing enzymatic inhibitors7:50
Practice relating enzymatic inhibition to other drugs (aspirin)2:29
Picturing inhibition of an enzymatic pump6:21
Practice explaining that pump1:58
Why do enzymatic inhibitors have side effects?6:40
Practice applying knowledge about enzymatic inhibitors and inducers.2:13
Understanding proton pump inhibitors and pregnancy categories8:19
Practice identifying 42 of the top 200 drugs3:36
Chapter review6:28

Developing confidence; Overview and aims of chapter2:47
Few medications decrease nausea by directly affecting the GIT1:40
Neurons, neurotransmitters and drugs that work on neurons6:01
Picturing drugs working on neurons3:32
Safety issues associated with vomiting3:04
Developing safe practice1:32
Identify safety concerns in pediatric vomiting, recognize signs of type 1 diabetes with fruity breath and ketones, and explore the four vomiting center pathways and appropriate medications.
A clear picture of the vomiting pathway: 3 totally different antiemetics5:50
Clinical applications of antihistamines and anticholinergic agents3:16
Antiemetics: Blocking serotonin 3 and dopamine 22:30
Developing clinical reasoning skills: Clinical use of antiemetics3:58
Congratulations, you now have the best foundation in pharmacology!1:32

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

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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

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