PA500423: Professional skills for medicine optimisation
[Page last updated: 05 August 2021]
| Academic Year: | 2021/2 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology |
| Credits: | 15 CATS credits |
| Notional Study Hours: | 150 |
| Level: | FHEQ level 7 |
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| Assessment Summary: | CW80EX20 |
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| Requisites: | In taking this module you cannot take PA500358 |
| Aims: | * To increase knowledge of the NHS commissioning� landscape and� key� national healthcare policy� in its application to� local� population� health� management.� � * Be able to apply� effective consultation and clinical skills combined with therapeutic knowledge� and laboratory test interpretation to inform shared decision-making and improve� patient outcomes.� � * Through audit of practice, medicines review, medicines� reconciliation and effective multidisciplinary working students will be able to� take responsibility� for� optimising� and� providing� of safe and accurate� patient� care� within their primary care� setting. |
| Learning Outcomes: | * Discuss and evaluate the NHS structure, policy� and commissioning landscape within primary care, the roles of the practice team within the wider primary care� sector� and reflect on your own development needs; define the local practice population� * Develop professional relationships within the multidisciplinary team, across sectors and professions, to improve communication and patient outcomes.� * Use clinical IT systems to effectively document actions, audit prescribing practice and communicate with the� appropriate healthcare� team to influence and support prescribing practice and improve patient outcomes and NHS efficiencies.� * Apply leadership appropriately within a healthcare setting and identify ways to strengthen leadership skills� * Demonstrate effective patient� centred� consultation skills (which meet relevant practice standards) and apply� appropriate tools� to enhance the patient experience.� * Effectively gathers relevant information� to develop diagnostic skills and inform� clinical decision making e.g. taking� a comprehensive medication history and appropriately reconciling� medication.� * Demonstrates a� holistic� medication review� and� optimising� medicines to improve patient outcomes and reduce waste.� * Identify and interpret key laboratory tests and apply this to monitor therapy and inform prescribing decisions.� * Demonstrate sound knowledge and application of commonly used clinical skills� e.g.� manual� BP measurement� and� urine analysis.� * Critically evaluate the evidence base and apply clinical reasoning and professional judgement to the evidence base for the management of hypertension * Understand the� aetiology� of� chronic kidney disease (CKD)� and acute kidney injury (AKI) and� how this may affect clinical decision-making� in relation to medicines.� |
| Skills: | Study skills�
Basic clinical examination skills� Consultation skills� Communication skills� Written communication� Problem solving� Working with others� Handling information� Leadership skills - influencing skills, challenging inappropriate prescribing� Planning and� organisation� Improving learning and performance� Scientific and practical skills� Reflective� practice� Information & communication technology. |
| Content: | * Current NHS structure and commissioning within primary care� * The primary care team - GP practices and beyond� * Inter-professional and intra-professional working� * Clinical laboratory investigations� * Basic clinical skills to aid diagnosis and management� * Patient� centred� communication and consultation skills� * Clinical IT systems� * Audit of prescribing practice� * Leadership within healthcare� * Structured medication review� * Medicines reconciliation� * Medicines� optimisation� * Therapeutic� topics - hypertension, acute kidney injury (AKI), chronic� kidney� disease (CKD). |
| Programme availability: |
PA500423 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology
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