How Drugs Work 3: Drug Actions

How Drugs Work: Session 3 - Drug Actions

Contains 25 PowerPoint slides prepared FOR YOU TO TEACH.

Goals and Learning Objectives:

After completing this module, the audience should be able to answer the following questions:

1. What are the differences between these three important terms: 'Biopharmaceutics'; 'Pharmacokinetics' & 'Pharmacodynamics'?
2. What is drug absorption?
3. What is drug distribution?
4. How does the body eliminate drugs?
5. What is the difference between hepatic metabolism and renal excretion?
6. What is drug excretion?
7. How do multiple dose regimens work?
8. What is Therapeutic Drug Monitoring?

You need to be thoroughly conversant with the use and administration of drugs within the health care system to teach this material.
The aim of this program is to offer you guidance for your presentation. You may choose to alter material in these slides to suit your needs.

Published: November 2010

Usage:

In addition to the right to view, save and print the PowerPoint presentations, you have the right to make amendments to the slides as required and to utilise them as a teaching aid. If you choose to amend one or more of the slides in a PowerPoint presentation, you must electronically insert the words ‘adapted from’ before the words © AusmedOnline at the bottom of each slide of the presentation.

Ausmed is not responsible for any changes you make to the content of PowerPoint presentations. You are responsible for ensuring that any changes are accurate and do not affect the accuracy of the parts which you do not change.

Author:

Jennifer Gibson (US)

Adapted for Australia by:

Dr Jenny Gowan

Includes: highly descriptive PowerPoint slides with added graphics.

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