Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology, Unit Catalogue 2008/09 |
PA30243 Pharmacy practice: clinical therapeutics |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Honours |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: EX 100% |
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Aims: This unit aims to develop broad clinical knowledge and initial/basic professional skills in pharmacy practice through studying a range of scenarios focused on specific disease states/conditions.
Learning Outcomes: * Relate aspects of knowledge gained from previous years to the developing pharmaco-therapeutic knowledge gained in this unit. * Describe the philosophy of clinical pharmacy and outline the roles and responsibilities of the clinical pharmacist including the development of a holistic approach to patient care including an appreciation of integrated and inter-professional care. * Describe the causes (as far as they are known) and identify treatments for a range of disease states through the development of treatment plans for medicines and medication review * Develop the communication skills necessary to interview a patient; elicit information from several healthcare sources and prepare a pharmaceutical care plan * Practise basic clinical skills required to enable the best medication regimen to be selected for a patient, no matter what the therapeutic discipline * Describe the role and process of life long learning and continuing professional development in the development of competency in pharmacy practice * Demonstrate the development of the qualities and transferable skills necessary for practising as a pharmacist including: exercise of initiative and personal responsibility, decision making in complex situations, independent learning for continuing professional development. Skills: Communication: problem solving and decision-making; Professional skills. All are taught, facilitated and assessed. Content: Topics selected from the following: * Clinical ethics * Nutrition and anaemia * Thyroid (endocrine) * Parkinson's Disease * Sexual Health * Paediatrics * Pregnancy and Breastfeeding * Liver disease * Renal conditions * Pain management. |