Keiser University
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Course Prefix & Number:
NUR 2140
Course Title:
Nursing Pharmacotherapeutics
Course Format:
Face to Face
Credit Hours:
4.0 Semester Credit Hours
Lecture Hours:
45 hours
Laboratory Hours:
30 hours
Course Schedule:
Thursdays Lecture: 8:30AM-11:30AM in Room 217
Lab: 1:00PM-3:00PM in Room 209 BSN Lab
Prerequisites:
Successful completion of first semester Nursing major courses.
Traditional: Successful completion of all Nursing major courses from
semesters one through three.
Co-requisites:
Faculty:
Professor Isabel Hamro, MSN, FNP, APRN-C
isabel.hamro@keiseruniversity.edu
cell 239-269-3894 (call/text between 7am-6pm only)
Office Hours:
Tuesday 10:45-11:45am By Appointment Please
Course Description:
Pre-licensure BSN course. Essential concepts and principles of
pharmacology as applied to baccalaureate level nursing practice.
Imparts knowledge and skills required for safe, effective administration
of therapeutic drugs (including herbal and complementary medications).
The course covers critical skills related to dosage calculation and
medication administration that must be performed without error to
achieve a passing grade for the course.
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Program Philosophy & Mission:
The philosophy and mission of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Prelicensure) Program is congruent with that of Keiser University. The Keiser
University mission statement and philosophy maintain that the University
is a two-year, four-year, and graduate-level institution that prepare
students of diverse backgrounds for career entry, advancement, or degree
completion. One of the primary goals of the University is to continually
change, improve, and ensure the effectiveness of the University’s
programs in preparing students for successful careers. These statements
are testimony to the integral relationship of the Bachelor of Science in
Nursing (Pre-licensure) Program to the mission of Keiser University and
the commitment of the University to the Program’s implementation and
success. Educating registered nurses at the baccalaureate level and
thereby enhancing their ability to achieve growth and success in their
careers meets the criteria of one of the major goals of the University.
This framework includes the broad competency areas of knowledge,
critical thinking, skills performance, collaboration, caring, and
professionalism. Each of these areas are reflected in program outcomes
that build upon prior learning and incorporate competencies at the
baccalaureate level as articulated in American Nurses Association
(ANA)’s Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice.
Program Goal(s):
Keiser University’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing program enables
students to provide evidence-based collaborative care to diverse patient
populations in varied settings. At the conclusion of the program, BSN
graduates will be able to:
1. Enact leadership, clinical decision-making, and effective
communications skills to provide and evaluate safe high quality
nursing services.
2. Creatively engage in rational inquiry utilizing evidence-based nursing
knowledge in both well-defined, relatively common clinical situations,
and in complex clinical situations.
3. Employ information management and patient care technology
knowledge and skills to enhance the delivery of quality patient care.
4. Maintain an understanding of system and organizational level policy in
order to provide appropriate direct and indirect nursing care for
ethnically, culturally, and/or spiritually diverse patients and their
families within varied healthcare systems and settings.
5. Participate in and lead interprofessional healthcare efforts to design
and manage the care of individuals and their families.
6. Practice nursing within ethical, legal, and humanistic frameworks,
promoting nursing’s values of altruism, autonomy, human dignity,
integrity, and social justice to provide quality, cost-effective care
founded on health promotion and disease prevention principles to
individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations across the
lifespan and across the continuum of healthcare environments
Program Student Learning Outcomes:
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Keiser University’s Bachelor of Science in nursing program enables students to provide evidence-based
collaborative care to diverse patient populations in varied settings. The Programmatic Student Learning
Outcomes are a culmination of measurable competencies, consistent with the American Association of Colleges
of Nursing (2008) Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice (2008), which
enable graduates to practice within a complex healthcare system.
The Programmatic Student Learning Outcomes and their applicable Essentials are:
1. CARE COORDINATION
o Utilizes effective leadership, communication and collaboration for shared decision making
with the patient and multidisciplinary healthcare providers in the deliberate organization,
design and management of safe, high quality and high value care for culturally and spiritually
diverse patients across the continuum of healthcare environments.
 Essential I: Liberal Education for Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice.
 Essential II: Basic Organizational and System Leadership for Quality Care and
Patient Safety.
 Essential VI: Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration for Improving
Patient Health Outcomes.
 Essential IX: Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice.
2. RESEARCH AND TRANSLATION
o Engages in scientific inquiry with a spirit of creativity, utilizes evidence-based nursing
knowledge, and translates data and information into nursing practice to address common
clinical scenarios.
 Essential III: Scholarship for Evidence Based Practice.
 Essential VI: Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration for Improving
Patient Health Outcomes.
3. INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
o Utilizes patient care technology and information systems to communicate, collaborate and
support clinical decision-making in the delivery of quality patient care in a variety of
healthcare settings.
 Essential IV: Information Management and Application of Patient Care
Technology.
 Essential VI: Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration for Improving
Patient Health Outcomes.
4. ADVOCACY AND POLICY
o Integrates professional nursing values, ethical, legal, and theoretical practice frameworks
fundamental to the discipline of nursing to influence health promotion, disease prevention,
healthcare policy, and regulation across the lifespan and practice environments.
 Essential V: Health Care Policy, Finance, and Regulatory Environments.
 Essential VII: Clinical Prevention and Population Health
 Essential VIII: Professionalism and Professional Values
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Course Objectives/Outcomes: AACN: The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for
Professional Nursing Practice
Essential I:
Liberal Education for
Baccalaureate Generalist
Nursing Practice
Essential II:
Basic Organizational and System
Leadership for Quality Care and
Patient Safety
Essential III:
Scholarship for Evidence Based
Practice
Essential IV:
Information Management and
Application of Patient Care
Technology
Essential V:
Health Care Policy, Finance, and
Regulatory Environments
Essential VI: Interprofessional
Communication and
Collaboration for Improving
Patient Health Outcomes
Essential VII:
Clinical Prevention and
Population Health
Essential VIII: Professionalism
and Professional Values
Essential IX:
Baccalaureate Generalist
Nursing Practice
A solid base in liberal education provides the cornerstone for
the practice and education of nurses.
Knowledge and skills in leadership, quality improvement, and
patient safety are necessary to provide high quality health
care.
Professional nursing practice is grounded in the translation of
current evidence into one’s practice
Knowledge and skills in information management and patient
care technology are critical in the delivery of quality patient
care.
Healthcare policies, including financial and regulatory,
directly and indirectly influence the nature and functioning of
the healthcare system and thereby are important
considerations in professional nursing practice.
Communication and collaboration among healthcare
professionals are critical to delivering high quality and safe
patient care.
Health promotion and disease prevention at the individual
and population level are necessary to improve population
health and are important components of baccalaureate
generalist nursing practice.
Professionalism and the inherent values of altruism,
autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice are
fundamental to the discipline of nursing.
The baccalaureate-graduate nurse is prepared to practice with
patients, including individuals, families, groups,
communities, and populations across the lifespan and across
the continuum of healthcare environments.
The baccalaureate graduate understands and respects the
variations of care, the increased complexity, and the
increased use of healthcare resources inherent in caring for
patients.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). (2008). The Essentials of baccalaureate education for professional nursing practice.
Retrieved from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/publications/order-form/baccalaureate-essentials
Course objectives/Outcomes
Upon completion of NUR 2140C, the student will:
1. Demonstrate scientific principles underlying the dynamics of the pharmacotherapeutic process (Care
Coordination, Research and Translation, Essential I, II, III).
2. Appreciate the need for problem-solving and critical thinking in pharmacotherapeutics
(Care Coordination, Research and Translation, Information Management,
Essentials I, II, III, IV, VI, VII).
3. Advocate for patients/clients relating to their pharmacological needs
(Research and Translation, Information Management, Advocacy and Policy, Essentials III, IV, VII).
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4. Discuss professional standards and legislation that are pertinent to the safe practice of administering
medications (Care Coordination, research and Translation, Advocacy and Policy, Essential II, III, V,
VIII).
5. Appraise the legal and ethical considerations that must be taken into account as related to pharmacology
(Care Coordination, Information Management, Advocacy and Policy, Essentials I, IV, V, VI, VIII).
6. Demonstrate ability to administer medications competently, safely, efficiently, and ethically (Essential
II, IV, VIII).
7. Utilize communication principles needed in the patient/client teaching/learning process related to
pharmacotherapeutics. (Care Coordination, Information Management, Advocacy and Policy, Essentials
II, IV, VIII).
8. Explain the nurse’s role as a member of an interdisciplinary pharmacology healthcare team related to a
client’s human response pattern (Care Coordination, Research and Translation, Information
Management, Advocacy and Policy, Essential I, II, IV, V, VI VII, VIII).
Grading and Evaluation Methods:
Percent of Total Grade
Evaluation
Exams
45%
st
Projects (DCE) (1 Attempt Only)
15%
Assignments
5%
Quizzes
10%
Final Exam
20%
Post Test
5%
Total Percentage:
100%
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To advance in the nursing core of the program, students are required to:
Earn a minimum course grade of “B” with a 80.00%
Earn a minimum score of 92% on the dosage calculation test (within 2 attempts)
Pass each critical skills performance for each core course (within two attempts)
Pass each clinical component for each core course
Grading Scale
Letter Grade
A
B
C
D
F
Required Textbooks
And Computer Programs
Numeric Grade
90.00-100.00%
80.00-89.00%
70.00-79.00%
65.00-69.9%
Up to 64.99%
Booth, K.A. & Whatley, J.E. (2015). Math & Dosage for Healthcare
Professionals. (5th Ed.) McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN #: 978
0073513805.
Karch, A. M. (2019). Focus on Nursing Pharmacology. (8th ed.).
Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. ISBN 978-1975100964
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Assessment Technologies Institute, Inc. ATI Modules and Programs.
(2019).
1. ATI Dosage Calculation and Safe Medication Administration
2. ATI Pharmacology Made Easy
3. ATI Skills Modules
Recommended Textbook:
Ackley, B.J., Ladwig, G. B. & Makie, M. B. (2019). Nursing diagnosis
handbook: An evidence-based guide to planning care. (11th ed). Elsevier.
ISBN:9780134867366
VanLeeuwen & Bladh (2016), Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests Manual.
F.A. Davis. ISBN 9780803623156
Required Computer Program:
Shadow Health. (2016). PharmacologyDigital Clinical Experience
(Version 4.0) [Software]. Available from
http://www.shadowhealth.com
1. For registration and purchase
Registration directions:
https://shadow.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/980991-how-to-registerwith-shadow-health
.
Login page: http://app.shadowhealth.com
2. Technical requirements
Review requirements:
https://shadow.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/963290-dcerecommended-system-specifications
Tablets and mobile devices are not currently supported.
Recommended web browser is Google Chrome.
3. Shadow Health Support
Contact Shadow Health with any questions or technical issues regarding
Shadow Health before contacting your instructor. Support is available
http://support.shadowhealth.com.
Other Required
Course Material(s):
Scholarly, peer reviewed nursing journal articles as applicable
Assignments:
Shadow Health Digital Clinical Experience
The Shadow Health® Digital Clinical Experience™ (DCE) provides a dynamic, immersive
experience designed to improve your skills and clinical reasoning through the examination of digital
standardized patients.
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Although these patients are digital, each one breathes, speaks, and has a complex medical and
psychosocial history. We will be completing Shadow Health assignments with assigned patients
throughout this course.
Concept Labs Overview
To help prepare for Pharmacotherapeutics and Nursing Practice, you will complete several Concept
Labs and several Patient Case Studies with specific medications for each patient depending on their
diagnosis. The Concept Labs will allow you to explore the Method of Action (MOA) of the different
medication in real time simulation. You can access these labs as many times as you wish to better
understand the concepts. For select systems, you can also explore concept labs. The abdominal,
respiratory, and cardiovascular concept labs allow you to review the anatomy of each system,
recognizing medications for each system.
Concept Lab Goals
The Concept Labs are guided review and practice opportunities. You will complete the Concept
Labs as outlined in the course schedule.
Course Guidelines and Policies
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic conduct, professional honesty, and personal
integrity. Plagiarism, cheating and other misconduct are serious violations and will not be tolerated, and may
result in academic penalties, including suspension or dismissal.
Attendance
Students are expected to contact the instructor or leave a phone message with the Keiser University receptionist
before the start of the class if they will not be able to attend or will be arriving late. The message should include
the reason (e.g., illness, family emergency). Students who leave class early will be responsible and accountable
for all materials missed. Prior to class the student must inform the instructor of the time they will be leaving.
Students are expected to notify their clinical instructor at least 60 minutes in advance of the clinical start time if
they will not be able to attend clinical or anticipate a late arrival. A documented emergency will be taken under
consideration by the Program. Note: Both the clinical instructor and/or preceptor (if applicable) must be
notified.
Participation
Participation is a basic requirement for an effective learning community. Class participation is demonstrated by
arriving to class early; paying attention during lectures and discussions; respectful listening when someone else
is speaking; being engaged in the class and in your learning without distractions.
Testing Policy
Quizzes: students will not be able to makeup quizzes. Exams: makeup exams will be allowed only with preapproval of the instructor or with an acceptable, documented reason and Director approval. Acceptable reasons
for makeup exams include severe illness, family emergency or other unavoidable events. Exam format for
makeup exams may be different than the original exam but the content for the exam will not change. Once an
exam has begun; the student will not be allowed to leave the classroom for any undocumented reason. Should
the student leave the testing environment, the exam must be turned in, will be considered complete, and will be
graded as such. No additional time will be given due to tardiness. Exam reviews will be conducted at the
discretion of the instructor or by appointment only.
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Performance check off: An unsuccessful first attempt at a skills lab competency requires individual
remediation during open lab hours prior to a second and final attempt. Missed skills lab competency
appointments will equate to an unsuccessful attempt.
Late Assignments
Assignments are due at the start of class on the day noted. Late assignments will not be accepted. Students with
extenuating circumstances should discuss turning in work with their instructor in advance of the due date
whenever possible.
Grades
Grades will be posted on blackboard in accordance with Keiser University policies and procedures. Students are
expected to monitor their grades and progress. For questions regarding grades, students are to make an
appointment with their instructor within a reasonable time frame of the grade posting.
Civility/Professionalism
This class is a community of learners, which means we will depend upon each other for support and
information. In order to learn, we must be open to the views of people different than ourselves. Please honor the
uniqueness of your classmates and appreciate the opportunity we have to learn from one another. Please respect
each other’s’ opinions and refrain from personal attacks or demeaning comments of any kind. It is of the utmost
importance to communicate with courtesy and professionalism. Professional courtesy includes respecting
other’s opinions, being courteous and respectful, and working together in the spirit of cooperation. Professional
behavior is defined by the instructor. Cell phones or electronic devices are not permitted during class time and
should be off/ or on vibrate. It is up to the individual instructor whether they will allow recording of their
instruction or not. Each student is entitled to a positive learning environment.
Dress Code
Adherence to the dress code is expected at all times. Should a student choose not to be dressed as stated in the
Nursing Student Handbook, they may be asked to leave the classroom and be directed to the Nursing Program
Director for further instruction and advisement.
Communication
Blackboard will be utilized for course materials, resources and updates. Students are also encouraged to check
their Keiser E-mail accounts on a regular basis. This will be the only E-mail utilized in accordance with Keiser
University policy.
University and Program Policies
Students are expected to abide by the policies set forth in the University Catalog and the Student Program
Handbook/Manual. The University Catalog is available electronically at
http://www.keiseruniversity.edu/catalog/. The Program Student Handbook/Manual is available electronically at
the direction of your instructor.
Disability Accommodations:
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), students who require reasonable
accommodations due to a disability to properly execute coursework must complete the application process and
receive approval from the review committee. The first step is to consult with the Campus President or Dean of
Academic Affairs.
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