Key facts
UNE unit code: PHAR420
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- Trimester 2 - Online
- Armidale Campus
- Yes
- Yes
- No
- 6
Unit information
Apply your knowledge and skills to equip yourself to work collaboratively with patients and their healthcare teams, providing high quality, safe pharmaceutical care in various settings.
Studying this unit will further consolidate your pharmacy practice skills.
Your ability to identify and resolve complex medication related problems to optimise patient outcomes will be enhanced as you apply your professional knowledge and ethical judgement to different clinical scenarios.
This unit offers opportunities to build on your skills for establishing effective relationships with patients/consumers and healthcare professionals.
Incorporating best practice and respect for patient autonomy into therapeutic and monitoring plans, you will better understand the role of pharmacy in different settings, including palliative care services.
You will also extend your knowledge of community pharmacy management concepts.
Offerings
For further information about UNE's teaching periods, please go to Principal Dates.
| Teaching period | Mode/location |
|---|---|
| Trimester 2 | Online |
*Offering is subject to availability
Intensive schools
| Start | Finish | Duration | Attendance | Offerings | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 August 2024 | 15 August 2024 | 4 days | Mandatory Intensive School | All offerings | The intensive school is mandatory for all students. |
Enrolment rules
Notes
On Campus students are required to attend mandatory tutorials. Online students are required to participate in mandatory online synchronous tutorials at designated times. Information regarding the timing of and the total number of tutorials that students must attend in a teaching period will be provided by the Unit Coordinator through the unit information in the Learning Management System.
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:
- verify and interpret complex patient information obtained from various sources, to identify and resolve actual or potential medicine related problems (MRPs) to optimise therapeutic outcomes;
- demonstrate effective intra- and inter professional relationships and work collaboratively with patients/consumers and healthcare professionals to achieve negotiated, agreed-upon objectives;
- develop accurate, efficient therapeutic and monitoring plans that incorporate best practice and respect the autonomy of the patient;
- exercise and apply professional and ethical judgement to supply and dispose medicines within legal requirements and best practice standard;
- appraise and apply the knowledge of Australian pharmacy law to pharmacy practice management in different pharmacy settings; and
- demonstrate understanding of self-management and tools which can be used to assess and modify professionalism.
Assessment information
Assessments are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.
| Title | Must Complete | Weight | Offerings | Assessment Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1 | Yes | 25% | All offerings | Palliative care assignment No. Words: 750 |
| Assessment 2 | Yes | 15% | All offerings | Case study with reflection (uploaded into ePortfolio). No. Words: 500 |
| Assessment 3 | Yes | 30% | All offerings | Medication review assignment - Gateway Assessment.It is mandatory to pass this assessment in order to pass this unit. No. Words: 1000 |
| Assessment 4 | Yes | 30% | All offerings | Professional skills test - Gateway Assessment. It is mandatory to pass this assessment in order to pass this unit. 40 minute assessment. Up to two attempts permitted. |
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.
APF26 Australian Pharmaceutical Formulary Handbook
ISBN: 9780648600329
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia 26th ed. 2024
Text refers to: All offerings
Australian Medicines Handbook: 2024
ISBN: 9780645813715
Rossi, S. (ed), AMH 2024
Text refers to: All offerings
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