This instructor's guide contains the materials required to teach a competency-based course in pharmacology for practical nursing. The following are covered in the five instructional units: calculating medication dosages, documenting medications, identifying classification and effects of medications, administering medications, and assisting with intravenous therapy. Each unit contains some or all of the following: objective sheets, information sheets, assignment sheets, job sheets, step-by-step lesson plan, optional supplemental instructional materials, learning activity package sheets that allow instructors to individualize instruction for some/all students, transparency masters, assignment sheets, job sheets, written tests, and assignment sheet and test answers. Academic skills training is combined with vocational training throughout the instructional materials. A system of icons has been used to help instructors identify activities that promote basic skills development and has been infused into the curriculum for the following basic skills areas: reading, science, creative thinking/problem solving, writing, oral communication, employability, math, interpersonal skills, and social studies. A basic skills documentation matrix correlates skills with units of instruction. (MN)