PHR1011 · Professional practice 1

Overview

This unit introduces you to the role of the pharmacist and health care services relating to consumers and their medicines. It introduces important aspects of human behaviour and cultural considerations, with a focus on enhancing professional communication with healthcare consumers and healthcare professionals. You will learn the fundamentals of pharmacy practice. Each student will build a portfolio to instil lifelong learning attributes and develop a personalised learning plan to advance their cognitive and non-cognitive skills.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

In-semester assessments: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Reflect on identified strengths and weaknesses in communication and other non-cognitive skills via a Personalised Learning Plan to enhance professional skills required to practice as a pharmacist
2. Comprehend basic ethical principles related to pharmacy
3. Demonstrate the safe and ethical use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)
4. Describe and apply guiding principles (e.g. regulatory frameworks, standards of practice, competencies and advanced practice) and standard references in Australian pharmacy practice
5. Describe the role of sustainability in the context of pharmacy practice, and identify ways to promote ethical use of resources
6. Find and interpret basic information about medicines and apply this to the treatment of minor ailments
7. Describe and define the Australian healthcare system (primary, secondary and tertiary) and the role of healthcare professionals
8. Identify and describe unsafe or less than optimal practices in pharmacy, with respect to health outcomes and legal and ethical considerations
9. Observe, evaluate and reflect on specific aspects of pharmacy layout, workforce and the provision of professional services within a community pharmacy
10. Understand key principles to support a constructive team climate, and work in teams to solve problems
11. Describe and demonstrate the key principles and processes of good communication and cultural competence.

Workload

• Seventy-two hours of independent study • Twenty-four hours of pre-learning activities (up to 2 hours per week) • Twenty-four hours of active applied learning (2 hours a week) • Twenty-four hours of small group classes including assessment (2 hours per week) • Four 1-hour skills coaching sessions

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.