Fall semester, the honors nursing students were given the opportunity to enhance both pharmacology and our nutrition class. Our professors gave us an assignment to complete that allowed us to enhance both classes within the same project. The pharmacology course taught us information about the foundation of pharmacology and how drugs are used to manage common diseases and conditions. A big majority of the content was focused on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics and implications for patient teaching and monitoring. The nutrition class focused on the foundation in science of nutrition and emphasized the relationships among nutrition, food, and the environment as they impact the health and well-being. Although these classes focused on very different things, they actually are very interrelated and play an important role in patient’s health.
The honors enhancement focused on 5 drugs that we learned about in pharmacology. With the five drugs, we researched food interactions and evaluated the signs and symptoms of drug food interaction. This information is imperative to know as nurses in order to best educate our patients. In addition to researching adverse food interactions with the five drugs we chose, we also included educational interventions for each drug. Below are two slides from our enhancement powerpoint.
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