Overview
This paper introduces holistic care and self-directed learning and is the capstone to the degree. In this paper students will learn and undertake professional activities that are performed by pharmacists.
About this paper
| Paper title | Applied Pharmacotherapy and Patient Care |
|---|---|
| Subject | Pharmacy |
| EFTS | 0.458 |
| Points | 55 points |
| Teaching period | Full Year (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $4,389.47 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Limited to
- BPharm
- Contact
- Teaching staff
Paper Co-ordinator: Dr Carla Dillon
- Paper Structure
- Lectures
- Workshops
- Skills labs
- Marae or Kura Visit
- IPE Session
- Textbooks
Rutter P, Newby D. Community Pharmacy: Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment ANZ. Chatswood, Australia: Elsevier Australia.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Ethics, Information literacy, Self-motivation, Teamwork.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully compete this paper will:
Communication, Collaboration & Research
- Use appropriate communication techniques to establish and maintain a collaborative and constructive relationship with people and colleagues
- Modify their own communication based on feedback
- Communicate clinical information and expert scientific knowledge effectively to different audiences
- Use communication technology effectively
- Work collaboratively with persons and intra- and inter-professional teams to provide safe, effective and efficient health care
- Create an environment that is appropriate for consultations
- Reflect on how social/cultural factors related to oneself and others impact on communication
- Demonstrate competence and confidence in utilising te reo Māori with Māori, whānau, community and identify its role in Māori health advancement
- Understand what it means to interact with people from different cultural backgrounds in a culturally competent manner
- Receive enquiries effectively, gather appropriate information, apply knowledge of evidence-based literature/ resources, interpret and critically appraise information to provide an individual answer
Pharmaceutical Literacy
- Apply the quality assurance processes in drug manufacture, distribution and dispensing
- Interpret concepts of quantitative analysis for analytical pharmaceutics and its application
- Interpret and predict how the physical and chemical properties of a drug may influence drug effects and pharmacokinetics
- Understand the pharmacological actions and metabolic fate associated with drug molecules and their functional groups
- Prepare a dosage form / product in an appropriate environment
- Evaluate and recommend the suitability of a dosage form, route of administration, storage, and appropriate use with respect to therapeutic efficacy
- Use appropriate pharmaceutical calculations
Provision of Care
- Consult with a person / whānau to collect demographic, medicine clinical histories, and to understand their preferences, goals, and practical realities of their life assist in developing a person-centred care plan
- Document activities clearly, concisely, and accurately using appropriate medical terminology
- Describe and integrate the principles of physiology, pathology, microbiology, pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacotherapy in relation to disease control
- Apply knowledge of pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics to the time-course of drug effects in order to optimise person outcomes
- Determine factors that affect an individual’s response and dose requirements
- Develop and implement a person-centred care plan
- Collaborate with a person/ whānau to optimise adherence to treatment which may include lifestyle / health-behaviour change
- Perform relevant clinical procedures and uses these to make appropriate recommendations
- Synthesise and integrate information to formulate differential diagnoses, triage and treatment care plan for ailments within pharmacists’ scope of practice
Population Health
- Describe the importance of cultural understandings of health, illness and medicines, cultural practises, and the use of traditional and alternative medicine
- Reflect on their interaction Māori patients and whānau utilising Māori health models/concepts/approaches in tandem with appropriate clinical models, in order to support Māori health advancement
- Describe the importance of cultural understandings of health, illness and medicines, cultural practises, and the use of traditional and alternative medicine
- Recognise aspects of peoples’ experiences of the healthcare system and the impact of illness on people, carers and whānau
- Design, develop, implement, and evaluate health initiatives that improve the health and wellbeing of the community
- Understand, appreciate, and account for the use of herbal, complementary and traditional medicines in the population
Professionalism
- Recognise, explain and demonstrate ethical principles and values underpinning the profession
- Maintain an individual’s rights to confidentiality, privacy and autonomy
- Demonstrate professional integrity through appropriate professional behaviour
- Examine pharmacy as a profession and the position of trust in which it is held
- Recognise, describe and comply with legislation and other regulations that are relevant to pharmacy
- Dispense medicines in accordance with legal requirements, professional responsibilities and safety of the person
- Recognise conditions under which pharmacists can administer medicines
- Describe quality assurance and improvement programs that relate to pharmacy practice
- Describe management and leadership skills to deliver safe and effective practise
- Describe human resource processes including workload management, and staff training, development, and evaluation
- Describe the place of medicines and the pharmacist within the health system