[Issues to be required for the education of pharmacology for nursing care from the clinical scenes]

Among the fields of medical treatments, pharmacological therapy is most the therapy that nurses are most concerned in. Under the clinical practical scenes, nurses are required to have high specialized knowledge and proper judgment ability. In the basic education of nursing care, in clinical pharmacology, we learn pharmacological therapy in terms of principal pharmacological efficacy and adverse effects, methods of administrations, and management methods of management. As pharmacology for nursing care, we lean comprehensive understanding of diseases, life style, and psychological situations. Under the actual nursing education following clinical scenes, in addition to these issues, we are required to learn knowledge and skill of performing safety pharmacological treatment of patients. It is important that we improve high specialized knowledge and proper judgment ability and we guarantee the quality of pharmacological treatments in accordance with patients safety. Especially in the university hospitals, Drug treatment using anti-cancer drugs and agents having serious side effects, and high-level clinical test drugs, are performed. Nurses are involved in the pharmacological treatment of patients as team with doctors and pharmacist. Therefore, the guarantee of pharmacological treatment is almost identical to the guarantee of quality of nursing care. In order that nurses are able to perform pharmacological treatments to patients safely, and obtain treatment efficacy, in addition to systematic and practical education, the promotion of communication of personnel interchange between clinical fields to a faculty is very useful, leading to establishment of motivation of continual education.