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SL12103: Preparing for professional practice 1

[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: Certificate (FHEQ level 4)
Period:
Academic Year
Assessment Summary: CWES 20%, CWPF 40%, EXCB 40%
Assessment Detail:
  • Tutor-assessed essay (CWES 20% - Qualifying Mark: 40)
  • Examination (EXCB 40% - Qualifying Mark: 40)
  • Year 1 e-portfolio of practice-based learning assessments, and CPD records (CWPF 40% - Qualifying Mark: 40)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: By the end of the unit, you will be able to: 1. Reflect on personal CPD needs and have started to maintain a learning portfolio to support graduate outcomes required by the General Pharmaceutical Council. 2. Have an awareness of the professional responsibilities of the pharmacist, and the roles of pharmacy supporting staff. 3. Demonstrate use of library and appropriate computing facilities in the University to research and to write essays and laboratory reports in a scientific style. 4. Be able to perform pharmaceutical calculations calculate basic statistical distributions and summarise data. 5. Demonstrate the ability to work effectively within a team. 6. Show how to obtain informed consent before providing care and pharmacy services. 7. Communicate with and counsel patients on medication and the use of different pharmaceutical dosage forms. 8. Have a knowledge of current pharmaceutical legislation sufficient to be able to screen NHS and private prescriptions for legality and enable dispensing. 9. Handover legally and clinically checked prescription medication under supervision in practice.


Synopsis: Explore the pharmacy profession, and the responsibilities of professional practice. Gain an appreciation of graduate outcomes required by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), and start developing a continuing professional development (CPD) e-portfolio to enable you to demonstrate these outcomes upon eventual graduation. You will be introduced to practice-based learning through clinical placements, and be introduced to pharmaceutical legislation relevant to the safe supply of medicines.

Content: Study skills: digital literacy, effective notetaking, referencing and plagiarism, problem-based learning Academic & professional communication skills Healthcare professional values and behaviours Professionalism & pharmacy Models of healthcare delivery, NHS policy and structure GPhC Standards and profession regulation The role of the pharmacist and support staff Interprofessional education and working Practice-based learning: demonstrating competence, continuing professional development (CPD), reflective practice, e-portfolios Governance and patient safety Introduction to ethics, judgement, reasoning and decision making Leadership & teamworking Pharmaceutical calculations, statistical concepts for pharmacy Introduction to evidence-based medicine, information sources - using the BNF Equality, diversity and inclusion in pharmacy & healthcare Consent and confidentiality Introduction to pharmaceutical legislation Labelling of medicines Patient records, data protection & IT in pharmacy Introduction to dispensing, checking and the supply of medicines The Misuse of Drugs Act and controlled drugs legislation Introduction to prescribing Patient safety and error reduction Practice-based learning in community pharmacy

Course availability:

SL12103 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:

Department of Life Sciences

Notes:

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