SL13103: Preparing for professional practice 1
[Page last updated: 15 April 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Life Sciences |
| Credits: | 15 [equivalent to 30 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 300 |
| Level: | Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CWES 20%, CWPF 40%, EXCB 40% |
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| 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 |
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SL13103 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:Department of Life Sciences
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