RustyPills 2- Still Rusty- Online self Paced Series

Ready for more Pharmacology education

You know Rusty Pills our Flag ship pharmacology refresher for nurses,  Well it now has a new addition to the Balmy Pharmy family. Youve been waiting for this since 2020 ,

Rusty Pills 2 (Still Rusty)  is our latest Pharmacology refresher series - 15 CPD

It follows on from the popular Rusty Pills 1 seminar, with a heap of medications that nurses and paramedics engage with on a daily basis.

Participants of this self paced course have a full 12 months to complete the program which results with a Certificate of attendance, awarding 15 CPD at its completion.

Content

·        Session 1 National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards; Scope of Practice; High Risk Medicines; Spotlighting APINCH Medicines

·        Session 2 -GI Medicines – GORD and Ulceration; Understanding GORD, the physiology of gastrin, pepsinogen and HCl; Proton Pump Inhibitors, antacids, H2 blockers; H. pylori and gastric ulcers; Antibiotics and other medications used in ulceration

·        Session 3: GI Medicines – Nutrition and Metabolic Pharmacology; Vitamins and mineral supplementation; Body building and other dietary supplements; Fat metabolism and obesity medication

·        Session 4: Weight loss medication and Fat metabolism

·        Session 5 : GI Medications – Constipation and Diarrhoea; Understanding strategies for assisting constipated patients; Exploring laxatives and aperients; Antidiarrhoeal medicines; Understanding gastroenteritis and managing Endocrine Conditions; Thyroid and adrenal disease pharmacology; Hormone replacement strategies

·        Session 6 –Medications used in Hepatic Disease; Chronic and acute liver infection medication strategy; Ascites and the role of albumin measurement; Hepatic encephalopathy and lactulose

·        Session 7 –Pressors and Inotropes: Understanding inotropy, dromotropy and chronotropy; Inotropes vs vasopressors; Reviewing the functions of the adrenergic receptors and medications that mimic or stimulate this system

·        Session 8 –: Medicines used in acute critical care;; Neuromuscular blocking drugs; Critical care sedation – opioids, ketamine, propofol, benzos

• CPD certificate showing 15 CPD 
• Printed Handout