Pharmacology · Module 1 · Pharmacokinetics: how the body handles drugs

Pharmacokinetics Lab

Run a drug level simulator, work through nursing case files, sort routes and interactions, and time a blood draw. Every number is a made-up teaching number. Nothing here is graded.

Part 1: Drug Level Simulator

Drug in the blood Metabolite (changed by the liver) Liver enzymes Therapeutic range Toxic level Minimum effective level (MEC)

A teaching model of one made-up drug. Dose sizes are relative units and levels are teaching numbers, not real doses or lab values. The clock runs about 12 hours per second. Dots under the time axis are doses: a big dot is a loading dose, an open circle is a skipped dose, and a double ring is a doubled dose.