PHRM3101 – Pharmacy Practice and Medicines Management 3A
Course Introduction
In the following video, Associate Professor Peter Moyle explains the structure of placements in PHRM3101 and provides an overview of the key areas students will study.
PHRM3101 – Course Introduction for Preceptors (YouTube, 1.5m)
Course Aims & Objectives
- Apply physiological, pathophysiological, pharmacological, and clinical knowledge of infections, respiratory conditions and organ transplants, and their management.
- Apply relevant ethical and legal frameworks in professional practice.
- Apply skills in dispensing, consultation, assessing and supporting medication adherence, medication reconciliation and managing a drug interaction.
- Provide patient-centred, socially, and culturally appropriate care in a range of pharmacy practice contexts.
- Develop interprofessional practice skills in conflict management and collaborative leadership and enhance skills in role clarification, team functioning, interprofessional communication, client-centred care.
- Evaluate and synthesise information from diverse sources to justify professional decisions in the practice of pharmacy.
- Engage with consumers, patients, carers, pharmacy staff and other members of the healthcare team as part of work-integrated learning.
- Demonstrate development of reflective practice, professional competence, and expertise; including the development of learning plans for work-integrated learning (experiential placements).
Student Preparation
Students have completed a 1 week community pharmacy placement and have continued to participate in activities to further develop their dispensing and consultation skills throughout the second year of the program. In PHRM3101, students will undertake their first hospital placement or aged care observation. In the preceding semester, students participated in learning activities and assessments to prepare them for conducting medications reviews and will continue to develop these skills throughout this semester.
During PHRM3101, students are studying:
- Antimicrobials
- Respiratory diseases
- Medications & delivery devices
- Eye & oral health
- Immunosuppressants
Note that due to the nature of rolling placements, students will be covering this content at different times. We recommend that you discuss with the student which content they have covered when they begin placement.
For details of the topics that students have studied in the preceding course, please see PHRM2102 – Pharmacy Practice and Medicines Management 2B.
Entrustable Professional Activities
Click on the links below to view the EPA templates
- Best possible medication history
- Medication chart review
- Patient education
- Provision of OTC Medicine
Please note that the Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons) EPAs have been scaffolded to an appropriate level for the students and differ from the EPAs that are completed in other programs, including the internship programs. If you are familiar with other EPA formats, we ask that you follow the templates for this course as they have been designed to align with the students’ program of study.
Entrustment Level
As a general guide, we expect that the average entrustment level will be 2 or 3. Its likely that students will receive lower entrustment levels on hospital EPAs as this is their first hospital placement.
See Entrustable Professional Activities for more information.
