PC3204 - Professional Pharmacy Practice 2 Part 1 of 2
Credit points: |
03 |
Year: |
2019 |
Student Contribution Band: |
Band 2
|
Subject chain: |
PC3204 PC3205 |
Administered by: |
College of Medicine & Dentistry |
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: PC3204, PC3205. 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 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.
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 competent skills in self directed learning.
Prerequisites: |
All level 2 Pharmacy subjects |
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:
|
PC3004 PC3104 PC3014 PC3015 |
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 1
|
Census Date 28-Mar-2019 |
Coordinator: |
Mrs Gillian Knott |
Lecturers: |
Mr David Herron, Assoc. Professor Ian Heslop, Ms Kathy Thomas, Professor Beverley Glass, Mrs Martina Mylrea, Mrs Sue Carson, Ms Selina Taylor, Mr Aaron Drovandi. |
Contact hours: |
- 33 hours lectures
- 10 hours tutorials
- 27 hours practicals
- 5 hours workshops/Seminars
- 160 hours clinical placement
|
Assessment: |
integrated assessment across subject chain (%). |
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 only be recorded for each subject after successful completion
of all parts of the "subject chain".
|
|
|
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.