Key facts
UNE unit code: PHAR310
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- Trimester 1 - Online
- Armidale Campus
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- 6
Unit information
Effective patient education helps to promote medication adherence and optimal therapeutic outcome. This unit extends your skills for pharmacy practice, building on the theory and communication techniques critical to establishing pharmacist-patient partnerships.
Studying this unit, you will learn valuable strategies and tools for educating patients about the use of both prescription and non-prescription medicines.
With opportunities to build your real-world skills, you will focus on culturally appropriate, patient-friendly communication and technologies.
Drawing on your therapeutic knowledge, you will be able to offer tailored medicines and disease counselling for common chronic conditions using motivational interview techniques.
This unit also continues to develop your extemporaneous compounding skills and familiarises you with the concept of a dispensing protocol to verify and dispense a prescription, as well as the principles of sterile compounding including aseptic techniques.
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| Teaching period | Mode/location |
|---|---|
| Trimester 1 | Online |
*Offering is subject to availability
Intensive schools
| Start | Finish | Duration | Attendance | Offerings | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 February 2024 | 14 February 2024 | 3 days | Mandatory Intensive School | All offerings | Both intensive schools are mandatory for all students. Students must attend both Mandatory Intensive Schools which are held in Armidale. The ability to enrol in this unit will be removed approximately two days prior to the commencement of this mandatory intensive school. |
| 19 April 2024 | 22 April 2024 | 3 days | Mandatory Intensive School | All offerings | Both intensive schools are mandatory for all students. Students must attend both Mandatory Intensive Schools which are held in Armidale. No teaching activities will be held on Sunday. |
Enrolment rules
Notes
On Campus students are required to attend and participate in mandatory tutorials.
Please refer to the student handbook for current details on this unit.
Unit coordinator(s)
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- understand the role of counselling theories that can be applied to the patient and their relevance to service delivery in different pharmacy settings using different communications technologies;
- demonstrate the ability to identify and implement the most effective counselling skills used in the provision of medicines and lifestyle changes for optimal holistic management of chronic diseases;
- apply and reflect on the above knowledge and skills with respect for the individual patient;
- explain pertinent disease and medicines information using appropriate patient friendly language;
- demonstrate intermediate skills to prepare extemporaneous products using the necessary pharmaceutical calculations and skillset for accurate interpretation and dispensing of a prescription; and
- demonstrate an understanding of aseptic and sterile compounding practices and pharmaceutical calculations involved in preparation of sterile pharmaceutical formulations.
Learning resources
Textbooks are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.
Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material. Please note that textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.
Australian Medicines Handbook: 2023
ISBN: 9780648515890
Rossi, S. (ed), AMH 2023
Text refers to: All offerings
Calculations for Pharmaceutical Practice
ISBN: 9780443100192
Arthur Winfield, Churchill Livingstone 1st Edition 2005
Text refers to: All offerings
APF26 Australian Pharmaceutical Formulary Handbook
ISBN: 9780648600329
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia 26th ed. 2024
Text refers to: All offerings
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