17 PHRM3101/PHRM3102 Hospital Placement

Purpose

You will have the opportunity to experience hospital pharmacy and to observe or be observed completing two to three entrustable professional activities (EPAs).

• Taking a medication history
• Educating a patient on their medication(s)
• Chart review

Placement Structure

• 1-week full-time placement.
• You will shadow the hospital pharmacists and assist when practical.
• You may be supervised by multiple pharmacy staff over the week.

Placement Preparation

All students will attend a mandatory Pre-placement Hospital Workshop in week 1 or 2 of the semester in which their hospital placement is scheduled. The purpose of the workshop is to improve student preparedness for hospital placement and optimise the placement experience.

The learning outcomes of the workshop:

• Understand what pharmacists will expect of you on the wards (Do’s and Don’t) to optimise your placement time
• Understand the activities of the pharmacist on the wards to be an asset to the pharmacist
• Describe effective medication history taking and processes in a busy hospital context using a Medication Action Plan (MAP) form

Assessment

• Complete a self-assessment of where you feel you could improve.
• Based on feedback from your preceptor, plan two learning goals for the following semester.
• Receive a level of entrustment from your preceptor based on their observation of your performance.
• Students are assessed on their learning plan and reflections, not the level of entrustment.

To Know

• Placements are sourced by the WIL Partnerships Coordinator and students are allocated based on their term address.
• Students wishing to complete a rural placement should email placements@pharmacy.uq.edu.au in advance of placements being allocated to see whether this may be possible.
• In ePortfolio please send your submission to your preceptor (the pharmacist you shadowed) rather than the hospital, as only 1 email address can be associated with each site. Note that your preceptor in ePortfolio may differ from the person listed in InPlace, who is typically the Clinical Educator.
• Instructions for adding a preceptor can be found in the ‘How To Guide’ section of this handbook.