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PHAR4812: Integrated Dispensing Practice
2024 unit information
Integrated Dispensing Practice links together the skills and knowledge that students have developed throughout their degree to perform the fundamental skills required of pharmacists in practice. In a simulated-practice environment, students interact with patients and health providers to optimise health outcomes. In order to assist students to see the patient as a whole person within a personal and social, as well as medical context, specific patients are followed over an extended period of time. Interactions include responding to requests for prescription and non-prescription medicines. Learning is centred on developing the skills required to effectively manage medication-information and to record the outcomes of patient interactions. Verbal communication skills are developed in order to interact effectively with patients and health providers to elicit medication- related information and to provide advice, recommendations and support. Students integrate and reconcile various pieces of information to make an assessment of the appropriateness of medicine for a patient are also developed. Written communication skills are developed in order to: systematically document patient interactions; devise a current medication list; report incidents, write letters to prescribers; and issue certificates for absence from work.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Pharmacy
| Code | PHAR4812 |
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| Academic unit | Pharmacy |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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PHAR3100 and PHAR3815 and PHAR3825 and PHAR3816 and PHAR3817 and PHAR3818 and PHAR3819 and PHAR3826 and PHAR3827 and PHAR3820 |
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Corequisites:
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PHAR4811 and (PHAR4814 or PHAR4815 or WORK3202 or WORK2222) and PHAR4823 and PHAR4100 |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. interview patients (and their caregivers) to elicit clinical and treatment history
- LO2. establish diagnosis of minor illnesses within the pharmacist’s scope of practice
- LO3. evaluate the appropriateness of a medicine or medication-related treatment, and intervene if necessary
- LO4. establish an appropriate treatment plan, for primary care within scope of practice
- LO5. prescribe pharmacist-only and pharmacy medicines
- LO6. detect, resolve and communicate dispensing errors (and near misses) in dispensed products
- LO7. counsel patients (and their caregivers) about their medicines and health conditions
- LO8. communicate interventions and recommendations to prescribers, dispensers and patients both verbally and in written formats
- LO9. document the outcome of patient interaction
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