SL500144: Foundation skills
[Page last updated: 27 November 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Life Sciences |
| Credits: | 15 CATS credits |
| Notional Study Hours: | 150 |
| Level: | FHEQ level 7 |
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| Assessment Summary: | CWES 40%, CWRA 60% |
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* Identify and evaluate decision making theory and apply this in practice to support medicines optimisation interventions across a range of clinical areas * Demonstrate autonomous practice within boundaries of own competence, across a range of clinical areas * Critically reflect on boundaries of own clinical competency, and refer appropriately to other members of the healthcare team to ensure patient safety * Describe and demonstrate the key factors required for effective communication with other members of the healthcare team in all sectors, using a variety of communication methods * Demonstrate timely, accurate, and appropriate documentation within the healthcare record to support medicines optimisation across a variety of clinical areas * Critically evaluate, and apply in practice, effective techniques to influence other healthcare professionals in order to support best medicines optimisation outcomes for patients * Identify and critically evaluate a range of information sources, and use these to construct solutions for practice-based problems and enquiries in order to support medicines optimisation * Identify, and demonstrate in practice, resilience strategies to maintain clinical standards and professionalism within busy, stressful and potentially adversarial situations * Reflect on learning experiences, evaluate performance, and identify performance gaps as areas for ongoing development. * Identify and demonstrate effective strategies to assess and prioritise a range of tasks within clinical and non-clinical settings. |
| Aims: | To develop and apply professional skills in a clinical context |
| Skills: | * Clinical skills * Study skills * Written communication * Working with others * Scientific and practical skills * Improving learning and performance * Information and communication technology * Problem solving. |
| Content: | * Foundation Pharmacist Framework * Principles of medicines optimisation * Clinical decision making/reasoning * Professionalism * GPhC standards * Principles of ethical clinical decision making * NHS values * Communication theory * Influencing * Resilience in clinical practice * Reflective practice * Local, regional and national UKMI, including use of databases to retrieve information. * Structured approach to answering medicines enquiries * SPS * Critical appraisal of common types and sources of literature including systematic reviews and RCTs, including CASP methodology. |
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SL500144 is Optional on the following courses:Department of Life Sciences
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