Professional Practice for Pharmacists 2

Description

Professional Practice for Pharmacists 2 is the final subject that will teach the relevant skills and knowledge for the safe, collaborative, person-centered provision of clinical interventions for selected diseases, wellbeing, and chronic disease management program services. Students will apply relevant skills and knowledge to the management of specified acute common skin conditions and wounds, the provision of pharmacist-led health and wellbeing interventions including travel health and smoking cessation services and the provision of respiratory chronic disease management programs. On completion of this subject, students will be prepared to provide selected clinical services as part of the North Queensland Community Pharmacy Scope of Practice Pilot.

Requisites

Pre-requisite

Other Requirements

Pre-enrolment Requirement

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this subject, graduates will be able to:

Describe the scope of practice of a pharmacist in the management of selected patient presentations within the clinical and professional scope, and relevant legislative frameworks

Relate knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology to the signs and symptoms to identify differential/provisional diagnosis, and potential risks of untreated disease

Apply an approved clinical pathway to the management of patient presentations within the practice scope of the pharmacist in conjunction with the patient and/or carer, including treatment, documentation, follow-up and referral pathways

Demonstrate history and examination skills and order relevant pathology, testing, and evaluate findings to formulate a diagnosis

Assessments

1. Written - Case study analysis

Description:

A range of module quizzes and case analysis questions will be provided in an online format. These will be automatically marked and multiple attempts will be allowed. This is a hurdle / enabling assessment with a passing grade of 75% per module case study. Students need to successfully complete a minimum of 80% of the case studies to satisfactorily pass this assessment component.

Individual:Individual

2. Written - Test/Quiz

3. Written - Log/log book

4. Perfom/Prac/Prod - Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)

Offerings

Trimester 2

MML-TSV-TR2

Trimester 3

MML-DWN-TR3

MML-TSV-TR3

Learning Activities

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Course and Subject Handbook

PC6200 - Professional Practice for Pharmacists 2