Professor Reising teaches critical care nursing and nursing research in the IU School of Nursing as well as in the clinical setting at the Bloomington Hospital. Her research is in teaching strategies, such as critical thinking and service-learning. Her students publish and present at national and international levels. She will always find time for students, day or night, except when watching an IU sporting event. Go Hoosiers!
Courses
Drugs and Supplements: Use, Misuse, and Addiction
Over-the-counter drugs such as cold medications are common drugs of abuse among the population. The incidence of occurrence continues to climb with more and more individuals experiencing a wide range of harmful body effects.
As a part of this course, students will learn about the basic physiology of how drugs work in the body and why they are both good and bad at the same time. Throughout this seminar, we will investigate the complicated world of the drug approval process, and follow drugs as they rise to official drug status for the market, and sometimes, their subsequent fall from the market.
Students will also become more familiar with claims and uses of nutritional and herbal supplements that are popular for enhancing muscular performance and for weight control. This seminar will equip students with the skills to thoroughly evaluate claims being made by drug and supplement manufacturers.
Finally, students will critically analyze the pharmacological properties of some over-the-counter drugs that make them popular abuse drugs. All the while, students will improve their written and oral communication skills, become better equipped to critically analyze Internet and written resources, and have a jump start on taking collegiate level exams.
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