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Advanced Nurse Practice standards requires nurses to have an extended knowledge of pharmacology and pharmacokinetics that will correlate with appropriate diagnostic and assessment data for critical analysis of a client’s health status.

This course will equip students with the advanced decision making and diagnostic skills required when practicing in the generalist expanded practice role of initiating patient care (including use of medicines) in rural and remote primary care.

Students will explore the legal framework supporting your practice, accountability within your individual scope of practice, and the unique context of nursing and health care needs in rural and remote nursing practice. Advanced pharmacological concepts related to practice in rural and remote primary care, across the lifespan will be investigated. Through work based learning, students will build on their patient history collection and physical examination skills, clinical decision making and diagnostic skills, to effectively plan management of patient care (including initiation of medicines) within a collaborative practice framework. This course includes detailed knowledge of the specific drugs included in national protocols that registered nurses may need to obtain, supply and administer in advanced practice contexts. Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics components focus on drugs to explain physiological actions of drugs relevant to scheduled medicine endorsement.

On successful completion of this course students should be able to:

1. Apply multiple approaches to clinical assessment and decision making appropriate to the practice context in a rural/isolated practice setting;
2. Plan, implement and evaluate care of individuals through implementation of Health Management Protocols (HMP) and extended practice authorities;
3. Initiate and engage in collaborative practice to achieve optimal, culturally relevant client outcomes;
4. Administer and practice according to relevant drug therapy protocols, Chief Health Officer Standing Orders, and/or Health Services Permits;
5. Apply pharmacokinetics and pharmacological knowledge and principles related to the administration of medicines using Safe Medication Practice;
6. Identify and administer the appropriate medications using relevant guidelines and identify any interaction with alternative therapies;
7. Communicate educational principles unpinning safe medication practice to educate consumers.