PC4201:03
Professional Pharmacy Practice 4
| Townsville | HECS Band 2 |
12 hours lectures, 4 hours tutorials, 12 hours practicals, 30 hours other. Semester 2.
Available to level 4 Bachelor of Pharmacy students.
Staff: Dr R Rasiah, Assoc. Professor B Glass, Dr G Grant, Assoc. Professor A Nimmo.
The subject will continue from the Semester 1 subject, Professional Pharmacy Practice 3, and will further develop the student’s understanding of aspects of professional pharmacy practice including dispensing skills, legal and ethical issues and professional standards. An emphasis will be placed on how these concepts apply to the Contemporary Professional Pharmacy Practices in Australia, especially their application in rural and remote Australia. The students will use the knowledge gained while on their Semester 2 pharmacy placements to understand the roles of pharmacists in the future.
Students will develop an understanding of the current legislative and ethical issues that are relevant to the practice of pharmacy in Australia today. The students will be reminded of the duties and roles that a pharmacist in Australia must aspire to and will be taught how these aspirations will benefit both the profession and the public.
The student will revise the technique of good communication and listening skills so that they will be able to take an appropriate pharmaceutical history of a patient, whether in the community or a hospital. The role of the pharmacist in community liaison will be discussed and applied to pharmacy practice.
Learning Objectives:
- demonstrate an understanding of the current legislative and ethics issues relevant to contemporary pharmacy practice;
- demonstrate an understanding of the concepts and application of pharmacoeconomics and its application to hospital, community and rural and remote practices;
- demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental operation of community and hospital pharmacy practice;
- demonstrate an ability to apply economic principles in the running of a pharmacy practice in addition to the principles of human resource management;
- demonstrate the basic dispensing functions of a pharmacist including eliciting, reviewing and assessing patient history, maintaining records and counselling patients to encourage compliance.
Assessment by a three-hour Objective Subjective Clinical Examination (OSCE) (55%); assignments (5%); extemporaneous dispensing practical examination (10%); clinical pharmacy dispensing practical examination (30%). The OSCE will consist of three workstations (10 minutes each) each assessed by two examiners, two panels (15 minutes each) assessed by at least two examiners and a series of written workstations. All students will be questioned by each of the panels. This examination will cover all components of the Pharmacy course. A satisfactory performance in all aspects of the subject is required. This is defined as at least 60% for all sections. Attendance at workshops and practicals is compulsory.