Avoiding Medication Errors: Pediatrics

Price (includes one year of access and CE):  US$12 Course Code: 7SENNF-PRV-09-libamp CE: 2.00 Hours. Post Test Score Required for Successful Completion: 80%

Course Overview:

This course provides information about pediatric dosage calculations, pediatric pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics, and administration strategies for different age groups. In a light-hearted simulation of medication administration on a pediatric unit, the learner calculates pediatric drug doses, considers common pediatric medical diagnoses and determines whether a medication seems reasonable to administer, and identifies medication administration strategies that are developmentally safe and appropriate.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

• calculate pediatric drug dosages.
• consider common pediatric medical diagnoses and ascertain whether a medication seems reasonable to administer.
• identify medication administration strategies that are safe and developmentally appropriate.

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It has been assigned code 7SENNF-PRV-09.

This course is updated annually. Expiration date: 5/1/11

The faculty and planners of this course have no vested interests to disclose.

This course has received no commercial support.