Introduction
  • Introduction; Aims of first half of chapter (section) 1
  • Practice using active learning to develop problem solving skills
  • Best approach to learning medications; Understanding reflux
  • Practice applying knowledge to develop safe practice and problem solving skills
  • Antacids, chemical reactions, osmosis and drug to drug reactions
  • Practice developing clinical reasoning and problem solving skills
  • Best approach to learning medications; Overview and aims of chapter (section) 1B
  • Practice 'coaching' the client for optimal compliance
  • Picturing the GIT and how it is controlled; Safety issues of constipation
  • Practice developing clinical reasoning skills; The most important symptoms
  • Safety issues; What happens when you take more than the recommended dose?
  • Practice helping clients understand the safety issues of OTC pain killers
  • Understanding 'pro-drugs', stimulant laxatives and rebound effects
  • Practice developing problem solving skills with enteric coated medications
  • Understanding the remaining laxatives
  • Practice safety: 'Strictly contraindicated' vs 'contraindicated'
  • Chapter/section summary; Developing confidence
Chapter (section) 2
  • Overview and aims of chapter
  • Practice developing safe strategies using dehydration as the example
  • The naming of drugs and which name to remember
  • Practice identifying 20 of the top 200 most prescribed medications (it's easy!)
  • Picturing the pain pathways and our natural opioids
  • Practice developing clinical reasoning skills and safety strategies
  • Picturing the types of cellular receptors and what happens after drug binding
  • Practice explaining the rebound pain that occurs with opioids
  • Understanding terms used when drugs affect a receptor
  • Practice applying your knowledge: Affinity, selectivity and potency
  • Picturing agonists, antagonists partial agonists and inverse agonists
  • Practice developing problem solving skills: partial agonists
  • Exactly how is it that an opioid causes constipation?
  • Practice picturing opioid blockers (antagonists)
  • Chapter summary: Building confidence
Absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (pharmacokinetics made easy)
  • Chapter (Section) 3 introduction and aims
  • Practice defining pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
  • Picturing the absorption rate associated with different modes of administration
  • Practice estimating maximum concentration (C-max) of drugs
  • Picturing absorption
  • Practice estimating absorption rate of different modes of administration
  • Distribution of drugs: First pass, protein binding
  • Practice developing problem solving skills using protein binding of drugs
  • Picturing metabolism of drugs: Cytochrome P450, Fist pass, Pro-drugs, Phase 1/2
  • Practice developing problem solving skills using the metabolism of drugs
  • Excretion of drugs: Half life, first order kinetics, zero order kinetics
  • Practice applying your knowledge of half-life
  • Quickly identify 22 of the 200 most prescribed medications
  • Practice identifying 34 of the top 200 most prescribed medications
  • Ranitidine and other Histamine 2 receptor blockers
  • Practice developing problem solving skills by predicting side effects
  • Furthering your understanding of Histamine 2 blockers and selectivity.
  • Practice explaining the difference between Histamine 1 vs Histamine 2
  • Chapter (section) review
Chapter (section) 4
  • Chapter (section) overview and aims
  • Practice applying information about enzymes: irreversible inhibition
  • Fun pharmacokinetics: A tour of the fate of a drug after oral administration
  • Practice developing problem solving skills about bioavailability
  • Picturing enzymatic inhibitors
  • Practice relating enzymatic inhibition to other drugs (aspirin)
  • Picturing inhibition of an enzymatic pump
  • Practice explaining that pump
  • Why do enzymatic inhibitors have side effects?
  • Practice applying knowledge about enzymatic inhibitors and inducers.
  • Understanding proton pump inhibitors and pregnancy categories
  • Practice identifying 42 of the top 200 drugs
  • Chapter review
Chapter (section) 5: You got this!
  • Developing confidence; Overview and aims of chapter
  • Few medications decrease nausea by directly affecting the GIT
  • Neurons, neurotransmitters and drugs that work on neurons
  • Picturing drugs working on neurons
  • Safety issues associated with vomiting
  • Developing safe practice
  • A clear picture of the vomiting pathway: 3 totally different antiemetics
  • Clinical applications of antihistamines and anticholinergic agents
  • Antiemetics: Blocking serotonin 3 and dopamine 2
  • Developing clinical reasoning skills: Clinical use of antiemetics
  • Congratulations, you now have the best foundation in pharmacology!