Nov 06, 2024  
2024-2025 Course Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Course Catalog
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AGV 109 - Pharmacy Skills

Credits: 2
Lecture Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 0
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: Voc/Tech
This course highlights the basic concepts of pharmacy organization and function. Drug development and general jurisprudence related to prescription and dispensing of medications will be explored. Broad categories of drugs will be discussed. Fluid therapy as it relates to patient physiology, hydration assessment, fluid delivery systems and maintenance of fluids will be reviewed.
Prerequisite: AGV 120  , AGV 128  , AGV 129  , AGV 231  , AGV 164  
Competencies
  1. Compare and contrast proper procedures for administering medicines
    1. Classify routes of administration of medications
    2. Select appropriate equipment for administration of different delivery forms of a medication
    3. Explain according to established criteria the location of appropriate intravenous, intramuscular, and subcutaneous injection sites
    4. Define proper oral medication administration, for both tablet and liquid
  2. Interpret the basic principles of hospital pharmacy management
    1. Describe proper inventory tracking techniques
    2. Explain proper reception of shipments of drug/vaccine
    3. Identify required elements of a drug label
    4. Demonstrate interpretation of a prescription
  3. Differentiate the systems of measurement for dosages
    1. Execute medical calculations of drug dosages
    2. List methods of administration for drugs
    3. Discuss fluid administration techniques
  4. Summarize the laws and regulations governing medications for use in the United States of America
  5. Assess hydration status of various common species
    1. Identify body water compartments
    2. List fluid administration equipment
    3. Discuss fluid administration monitoring

Competencies Revised Date: AY2025



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