PC4201 - Professional Pharmacy Practice 4

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:

Available to level 4 Bach elor of Pharmacy students.

The subject will continue from the Semester 1 subject, Professional Pharmacy Practice 3, and will further develop the students 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 Outcomes

• demonstrate an ability to apply economic principles in the running of a pharmacy practice in addition to the principles of human resource management;
• 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 current legislative and ethics issues relevant to contemporary pharmacy practice;
• demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental operation of community and hospital pharmacy practice;
• demonstrate the basic dispensing functions of a pharmacist including eliciting, reviewing and assessing patient history, maintaining records and counselling patients to encourage compliance.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences;
• The ability to lead, manage and contribute effectively to teams;
• The ability to speak and write logically, clearly and creatively;
• The ability to calculate, produce, interpret and communicate numerical information;
• The ability to select and use appropriate IT tools;
• A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to use a variety of media and methods to retrieve, analyse, evaluate, organise and present information;
• The ability to learn independently and in a self-directed manner;
• A commitment to lifelong learning and intellectual development.

Prerequisites:

All level 3 BPharm subjects

Availabilities
, , Study Period 2
Census Date 08-Sep-2006
Coordinator:	Professor Beverley Glass
Lecturers:	Professor Beverley Glass, jc144749, jc146174.
Contact hours:	12 hours 4 hours 12 hours
Assessment:	(40%); (55%); (5%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.