Abstract
Nursing organizations have called for the incorporation of social determinants of health (SDOH) throughout nursing school curricula. Guidance is needed regarding best practices to integrate SDOH into pharmacology courses in prelicensure nursing programs. Using Emory University's School of Nursing SDOH framework to guide curriculum innovation, pharmacology faculty identified three pharmacology-centric SDOH topics: race-based medicine and pharmacogenomics, pharmacy deserts, and lack of diversity in clinical trials. These three SDOH topics were incorporated into preestablished pharmacology content. Faculty integrated SDOH into pharmacology courses with heavy science content, and students were receptive to open discussion of SDOH topics. The integration of SDOH into a prelicensure nursing pharmacology course across multiple cohorts of students was feasible, and student feedback was positive. Faculty faced several challenges, including time constraints. Additional and ongoing training is needed to support the integration of SDOH into nursing curricula. [J Nurs Educ. 2023;62(3):175-179.].
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