Each Chapter will be discussed over 2-3 class meetings. Once a chapter is completed there will be a multiple choice test or quiz given.

Chapter 1: Orientation to Pharmacology,1
Chapter 2: Application of Pharmacology in Nursing Pratice,5
Chapter 3: Drug regulation, Development, Names, and Information,15
Chapter 4: Pharmacokinetics,24
Chapter 5: Pharmacodynamics
Chapter 6: Drug Interactions,55
Chapter 7: Adverse Drug Reactions and Medication Errors,62
Chapter 8: Individual Variation in Drug Responses,72
Chapter 10: Drug Therapy During Pregnancy and Breast-Feeding,78
Chapter 11: Drug Therapy in Geriatric Patient,89
Chapter 12: Basic Principles of Neuropharmacology,92
Chapter 13: Physiology of the Peripheral Nervous System, 98
Chapter 27: Opiod (Narcotic) Analgesics, Opiod Antagonists, and Nonopiod centrally Acting Analgesics, 230
Chapter 50: Anticoagullant, Antiplatelet, and Thrombolytic Drugs,543
Chapter 73: Drugs for Peptic Ulcer Disease,820
Chapter 74: Laxatives, 833
Chapter 75: Other Gastrointestinal Drugs,839
Chapter 79: Basic Principles of Antimicrobial Therapy, 873
Chapter 80: Drugs that Weaken the Bacterial Cell Wall I: Penicillins,887
Chapter 81: Drugs that Weaken the Baterial Cell wall II: Cephalosporins, Carbapenems, Aztreonam, Vancomycin, Teicoplanin, and Fosfomycin, 897
Chapter 82: Bacteriostatic Inhibitors of protein Synthesis: Tetracyclines, Macrolides, Clidamycin, Chloramphenicol, Linezolid, Dalfopristin/Quinupristin, and Spectinomycin,906
Chapter 83: Aminoglycosides: Batericidal Inhibitors of Protein Synthesis, 918
Chapter 84: Sulfonamides and Trimethoprim,926
Chapter 85: Drug therapy of Urinary Tract Infection,933
Chapter 86: Antimycobacterial Agents: Drugs for Tuberculosis, Leprosy, and Mycobacterium avium Complex Infection,938