PC4202:09
Professional Pharmacy Placement 2
| Townsville | HECS Band 2 |
8 hours workshops, 360 hours other. Semester 2.
Available to level 4 Bachelor of Pharmacy students.
Staff: Dr R Rasiah and clinical tutors.
The subject will provide a minimum of 337.5 hours (nine weeks at 37.5 hours) of supervised clinical pharmacy placement with flexible support from the University to integrate and develop previously learnt material with new observational and practical clinical training.
The placement will be either rural or urban (hospital, community or industry) at an advanced level and will enable the student to apply, develop, analyse and integrate the theories, principles and practice of pharmacy in a variety of settings.
Students may be required to undertake clinical placement in a facility away from the campus at which they are currently enrolled, at their own expense.
Learning Objectives:
- demonstrate competency in obtaining a pharmaceutical history, including a patient’s medication and medical history;
- develop individual objectives for one’s own professional development. The student will demonstrate good time management skills;
- develop individual aims of intervention and outcomes of practice for patients that present to the pharmacy;
- demonstrate an understanding of the principles of human resource management and financial management of pharmacy (hospital or community);
- demonstrate competent skills in self directed learning;
- achieve competency for personal accreditation and registration requirements.
Assessment by clinical placement performance report (pass/fail); attendance record (pass/fail); placement assignment (30%); oral presentation of assignment (30%); placement workbook (40%).