Topics Covered in the Course
As you explore the course, you will meet and learn with other nurses who want to excel in their clinical roles and medication calculation and administration, discussing and exploring topics such as:
Medications without Harm
- Introduction to medications without harm
- Strategic medication frameworks
- Polypharmacy, high risk & reconciliation
- Medications for dementia
- The importance of patient education
- What to do when things go wrong so you are protected but heard
- Reflection and community forum on administration in your current or past workplace(s)
Medication Administration
- Introduction to medication administration
- Calculating and administering oral medications
- Calculating and administeringparenteral medications
- Calculating and administeringconcentration of additives
- Practice questions for calculation and administration
- Community forum on administration in your current or past workplace(s)
Case Studies & Conclusion
- Case Study 1 - Heart palpitations and insomnia
- Case Study 2 - Type II Diabetes and insulin
- Conclusion and reflection
Aboutour Subject Matter Experts
Jo Southern
Nursing Lecturer and Educator and Accreditor with the Australian Nursing & Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC)
Jo has been nursing since 1989 and has had a diverse career covering paediatrics, operating theatre, infectious diseases, gastrointestinal and liver transplants and intensive care. Early in her career, she saw the need for nurses to qualify with a tertiary education so she undertook one of the first bridging (from general nursing certificate to bachelor) degrees, in QLD. Since then she has completed post grad qualifications in ICU nursing where she spent 14 years honing her critical care skills. In 2012 Jo started teaching nursing in which she has completed a Master of Nursing majoring in Clinical Education. It is her greatest joy to see new graduate nurses embarking on their own nursing journey and knowing that she had a small part to play in helping them achieve that goal. Jo is now conducting research on the use of augmented & virtual reality in nurse education, looking at the academic's view of using such technology as she works to obtain her PhD. She has 3 publications under her belt.
Karalyn Huxhagen
Accredited Consultant Pharmacist, Chair of the Rural Special Interest Group of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, Recipient for the Australian Pharmacist of the Year 2010
Karalyn Huxhagen is a community pharmacist and accredited consultant pharmacist with interests in pain management, asthma and COPD, aged care, wound care, travel medicine, chronic disease programs and the health of Aboriginal, Torres Strait and South Sea Islander people. She is a consultant to the PainWISE training program and several other professional bodies. Karalyn is actively involved in supporting programs to improve the health outcomes of her local community and in 2010 received an Australia Day award for services to the health of the Mackay community. She is part of the Pharmacy advisory group, National Asthma Council, Pharmacy advisory group, James Cook University, is a commentator and article writer to Auspharmlist, Australian Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacy News.
Dr. Anthony Summers
Professional Doctorate Nurse Practitioner, PGD Advanced Nursing Practice, BSc (Hons) Nursing
Dr Anthony Summers has been qualified as a Registered Nurse for over 25 years. Since 2000 he has also held endorsement as a Nurse Practitioner, both in the United Kingdom and Australia. Anthony has worked in many different emergency departments both in the United Kingdom and Australia. As a Nurse Practitioner he has specialised in minor injuries and ailments, orthopaedics, gynaecology and image interpretation. More recently he has been working in the elderly care area. He has 39 publications under his academic belt. Anthony commenced his academic career as a Lecturer in Nursing with the University of Canberra and completed his Professional Doctorate Nurse Practitioner in 2019. Anthony is part of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and Australian College of Nursing Practitioners.
