PC3016 - Professional Pharmacy Practice 2 (Honours) Part 2 of 2

Credit points:	03
Year:	2009
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Subject chain:	PC3015 PC3016
Administered by:	School of Pharmacy & Molecular Sciences

Available to students enrolled in level 3 (Honours) of the Bachelor of Pharmacy. Except with the approval of the Head of School/Associate Dean, all subjects in a chain must be studied in consecutive teaching periods.

Part of Subject Chain: PC3015, PC3016 Available to level 3 Pharmacy students enrolled in the Honours course. This subject will further develop the students understanding of aspects of professional pharmacy practice including communication, counselling skills, dispensing, legal and ethical issues and professional standards. An emphasis will be placed on how this applies to cross cultural communication, rural and remote practice and the extended role of other health professionals in these communities. The roles of relevant professional pharmacy organisations and bodies and their relevance to contemporary pharmacy practice will be discussed. The student will also extend their knowledge and understanding of the pharmaceutics of solid pharmaceutical formulations and dosage forms. In addition the subject will provide supervised clinical pharmacy placement with flexible support from the University to integrate and develop previously learnt material with new observational and practical 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. An important part of this subject involves the identification of an area of pharmacy research, review of the literature and development of a research proposal.

Learning Outcomes

• demonstrate the basic dispensing functions of a pharmacist including eliciting, reviewing and assessing patient history, maintaining records and counselling patients to encourage compliance;
• describe, interpret and apply accepted standards of practice and codes of ethics especially the Health (Drugs and Poisons) Regulation, Pharmacy Act and Regulations and the National Health Act and Regulations;
• describe the pharmaceutics of solid pharmaceutical formulations and dosage forms including reaction kinetics and drug stability;
• develop the skills to obtain a pharmaceutical history, including a patient's medication and medical history and application of pharmacoeconomics;
• demonstrate an ability to retrieve, interpret and evaluate information and use this in the design of a research project.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to calculate, produce, interpret and communicate numerical information;
• A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning processes and products;
• The ability to learn independently and in a self-directed manner.

Prerequisites:	All level 2 BPharm subjects.
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	PC3004 and PC3104 and PC3203 and PC3205

Availabilities
As this subject is part of a subject chain, a final standard grade (e.g. P, C) will only be recorded for each subject after successful completion of all parts of the subject chain.
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 28-Aug-2009
Coordinator:	Mr John Smithson
Lecturers:	Assoc. Professor Ian Heslop, Mrs Gillian Knott, Professor Beverley Glass, jc146174, Mr John Smithson.
Contact hours:	42 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials 36 hours practicals 4 hours workshops/Seminars 240 hours fieldwork
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); other exams (20%); clinical practical examination (20%); essays (10%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	The clinical placement performance report, attendance record and placement workbook is assessed as either satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Satisfactory must be obtained to pass this subject. As this subject is part of a "subject chain", a final standard grade (e.g. P, C) will be only recorded for each subject after successful completion of all parts of the "subject chain".
Restrictions:	An enrolment quota applies to this offering.

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.