@article{article_550292, title={The Importance of Pharmacovigilance and Ecopharmacovigilance in Nursing Education}, journal={Ordu Üniversitesi Hemşirelik Çalışmaları Dergisi}, volume={2}, pages={70–77}, year={2019}, author={Şavlı, Evren and Şavlı, Evrim}, keywords={Pharmacovigilance,ecopharmacovigilance,nursing education}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;">Advancements in medicine accompanied by the accumulation of new knowledge force higher education institutions to change the way they prepare their graduates to deliver healthcare. The aim of this review is to <span>raise the awareness of </span> the importance of pharmacovigilance and ecopharmacovigilance among nursing academics i <span>n higher education and </span>to underline their role in educating future nurses. <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;background:#FCFCFC;"> </span>Pharmacovigilance aims to monitor the adverse effects of pharmaceuticals on patients. Ecopharmacovigilance, as a kind of pharmacovigilance for the environmental, aims to monitor the adverse effects of pharmaceuticals both on the environment and on humans through indirect non-therapeutic exposure. Nursing education administrators in higher education should update their curricula in the fields of pharmacovigilance and ecopharmacovigilance that will yield the improvements in the academic performance of undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;"> </span> </p> <p>  </p> <p> </p>}, number={1}, publisher={Ordu University}