SL22109: Preparing for professional practice 2
[Page last updated: 26 October 2023]
| Academic Year: | 2023/24 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Life Sciences |
| Credits: | 15 [equivalent to 30 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 300 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CWPF 30%, CWPG 10%, EXCB 60% |
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By the end of the unit, you will be able to:
1. Interpret and clinically evaluate prescriptions and other orders for medicines; and to advise patients and other health care professionals about the safe and effective use of medicines to maximize patient outcomes.
2. Demonstrate the skills required to supply medicines to patients in a safe and effective manner.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the legal, ethical and scientific knowledge required of a pharmacist for the safe preparation and supply of individualised medicines.
4. Undertake effective patient centred consultations.
5. Actively support patients and their carers in the safe and effective use of their medicines and devices.
6. Demonstrate an ability to analyse prescriptions for validity, safety and clarity and implements strategies to address identified deficiencies within appropriate legal frameworks.
7. Diagnose and manage commonly pharmacy-presented symptoms, recognise "red flag" presentations, make referrals and supply non-prescription medicines in accordance with current pharmaceutical legislation and frameworks.
8. Apply robust evidence-based decision making in complex patient scenarios, recognising ethical dilemmas and responding in a reasoned way in accordance with relevant codes of conduct.
9. Identify the different types of laboratory tests and near patient testing assessments, demonstrate their use and interpretation, and critically assess their application in practice.
10. Demonstrate the ability to use tools that may support medicines optimisation in practice.
11. Communicate through the development of effective working relationships with the public, patient/client groups and other health professionals.
12. Apply professional judgement in the best interests of the patient and the public.
13. Demonstrate effective negotiation skills.
14. Demonstrate an ability to manage resources effectively and participate in financial planning processes, including the production of a business plan.
15. Reflect on and recognise own limitations, work safely and seek support where appropriate.
16. Respond with flexibility and adaptability to new situations and change. |
| Synopsis: | Develop your understanding of the key aspects of pharmacy contract law and controlled drugs legislation, ethics and codes of professional practice, consultation skills and health psychology and the principles of evidence-based medicine and techniques employed in pharmacy practice. Continue your professional formation using a blend of campus-based teaching, simulation and practice-based learning. You will spend two weeks in clinical practice as part of this unit. |
| Content: | Clinical skills - prescriptions and drug charts, contraindications, adverse reactions and drug interactions, medical notes, lab test results and patient monitoring
Applied pharmacy practice skills - dispensing, checking and analysis of prescribed medicines, medicines reconciliation, medicines use review; good dispensing and clinical practice; use of standard operating procedures; NVQ Level 2 Accuracy checking
Evidence-based medicine: medicines information, randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and health economics, critical appraisal and the use of CASP tools
Consultation skills development: detailed structure including information gathering, decision making, safety netting and follow up; clinical decision making - bias and heuristics, decision aids, shared decision making, communicating risk; developing advanced consultation skills in the context of special patient groups, capacity and consent, complex consultations
Patient safety, clinical governance, compliance, adherence and concordance
Introduction to management and leadership skills
Legislation (medicines and workplace regulation): application of pharmacy law to the professional practice of dispensing and to consumer protection including complaints procedure
Legal, Ethical and Professional Frameworks: The Drug Tariff, the NHS Contract, Human Medicines Regulations 2012, Controlled drugs legislation and the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971; regulation of health professions, the pharmacy profession -professional representative organisations; professionalism and fitness to practise procedures, sexual boundaries; Veterinary Regulations
Ethical problem solving and critical reasoning
Health psychology - Communication to improve health, health risk behaviours, motivational interviewing |
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SL22109 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:Department of Life Sciences
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