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This course provides an in-depth foundation of advanced pharmacology principles and their application to anesthesia care across the lifespan. The course builds on the registered nurse’s pharmacology knowledge base through in depth explorations of pharmacodynamic (e.g., dose-response, drug-receptor, adverse effects) and pharmacokinetic (e.g., absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion) principles to advance the student’s knowledge and understanding of medications known to affect the pharmacotherapeutics of anesthesia care. Principles of rational, evidenced-based pharmacotherapeutics, including: pharmacologic, physiologic, pathophysiologic, lifespan, cultural, genetic and genomic, economic, ethical, legal and social considerations, and the influence of these factors on safe anesthesia care is presented. Completion of this course will enable students to identify and consider the impact of medications used for commonly encountered clinical conditions in order to provide rational and responsible anesthesia care to patients