PHR5061 · Applied pharmacy practice 1

Overview

Applied Pharmacy Practice 1 is undertaken during the pharmacy internship year. This unit enables you as a pharmacy graduate to build upon your knowledge and experience and to develop the competencies required for independent practice as a pharmacist. The unit explores the day-to-day practice of pharmacy including therapeutics, problem solving, evidence based practice, medication management, patient monitoring, adherence to medication, the application of professional pharmacy standards and competencies, the ethical and legal aspects of pharmacy practice, multidisciplinary approaches to health care, primary care, communication and counselling, health promotion, pharmaceutical calculations, extemporaneous dispensing, risk management and dealing with difficult situations in practice. In this unit, you will enhance your technical, clinical, personal and professional skills.

Offerings

Assessment

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

You will be assessed using the Monash Competency Grading Schema for this unit. All tasks are competency hurdles which you must complete to be able to pass the unit. You have one attempt, plus an additional assessment, to demonstrate your competency in each competency hurdle assessment task. If you fail to meet the hurdle requirement, you will receive a fail grade for the unit.

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 integrated knowledge, skills, attitudes and clinical experience in pharmacy practice in order to practise effectively and professionally.
2. Demonstrate a sound understanding of, and work within, the legal, professional and ethical framework for pharmacy practice in Australia.
3. Demonstrate safe and socially accountable practice.
4. Appropriately and effectively communicate with patients, carers and other health professionals to ensure a collaborative approach to optimising patient outcomes.
5. Demonstrate strong problem solving skills and apply professional judgement in a range of areas including prescriptions, therapeutic, legal and ethical problems.
6. Apply evidence-based principles to the practice of pharmacy through inquiry and research.
7. Apply strategies to promote and contribute to optimal use of medicines.
8. Employ harm minimisation strategies to reduce harm to patients, the public and the community from misuse of legal and illegal drugs.
9. Develop and contribute to health promotion activities in the workplace to maintain and improve individual and public health.
10. Provide primary health care, including, differential diagnosis, recommendation of appropriate pharmacological and non-pharmacological strategies and referral when appropriate.
11. Solve pharmaceutical calculations.
12. Demonstrate quality engagement in the education and development of members of the healthcare team.
13. Demonstrate self-management, including application of organisational skills, management of work issues and interpersonal relationships in pharmacy practice.
14. Adopt the principles of life-long learning, including demonstration of reflective practice and the ability to apply educational, research or clinical theories to inform professional change when required.

Workload

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