PHR4012 · Professional practice 5

Overview

This unit will prepare you for your pharmacy internship by building on your understanding of the ethical and legal principles and legislation relevant to pharmacy practice, healthcare system and health policy, quality use of medicines, collaborative disease management, dispensing, extemporaneous preparations, pharmaceutical calculations, cultural capability,. You will learn about digital health, environmentally sustainable practice, screening and point of care testing, medication management, pharmacoeconomics, personal management and pharmacy management. You will apply your clinical and professional knowledge from previous units to further develop their communication skills, critical thinking and teamwork skills using a series of relevant practice-based scenarios, case studies, and problem-based learning approaches.

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% This unit contains one or more competency hurdle assessment tasks that you must successfully complete to be able to pass the unit. You have one attempt, plus an additional assessment capped at 50% of the available marks for the task, to demonstrate your competency in the competency hurdle assessment task. If you fail to meet the hurdle requirement, you will receive a fail grade for the unit regardless of the total marks you achieve.

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

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Apply the key legal and ethical principles and legislation relevant to pharmacy practice in a range of healthcare settings
2. In the context of a systems-based approach to healthcare: • Explain the roles of pharmacists in promoting medication safety and quality use of medicines among consumers and other health professionals across the continuum of healthcare to ensure that the right patient gets the right treatment at the right time • Discuss digital health opportunities and challenges across a range of practice settings, including new approaches to the use of health data to inform clinical practice • Apply basic concepts in health- and pharmaco-economics, and describe the importance of these concepts from a practice and policy perspective • Apply patient-centred care approaches and collaborative care approaches in the prevention, identification and management of health conditions in a range of healthcare settings
3. In the context of interdisciplinary patient-centred care: • Outline how pharmacists provide screening tests and point of care testing in the primary care setting, including an understanding of sensitivity and specificity in this context, health promotion and epidemiology • Evaluate the processes and skills involved in extemporaneous dispensing and manufacturing • Demonstrate skills in performing relevant pharmaceutical calculations • Demonstrate cultural capability and professionalism at workplaces and when interacting with Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) populations • Apply clinical reasoning and collaborative decision making to document and communicate a clinical management plan
4. Reflect on identified strengths and weaknesses in communication and other non-cognitive skills via a Personalised Learning Plan to enhance the professional skills required to practice as a pharmacist
5. Demonstrate skills in personal management, human resources management and health system/business management

Workload

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

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