Comprises two four-week pharmacy professional practice attachments. Students will be allocated to clinical teams or practices and be involved in the provision of defined professional activities
| Paper title | Structured Practical Experiential Programme |
|---|---|
| Paper code | PHCY431 |
| Subject | Pharmacy |
| EFTS | 0.167 |
| Points | 20 points |
| Teaching period | Full Year (24 February 2023 - 29 October 2023) (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees (NZD) | $1,468.93 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
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- BPharm
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- Teaching staff
Paper Co-ordinator: Aynsley Peterson
- Paper Structure
This paper outlines 2x four-week rotations. Each rotation consists of a number of attachments where a student will be attached to a practitioner or team to learn about providing a number of pharmacy services. The rotations will be linked to health science hubs (e.g. the three main campuses and related hubs and spokes). A clinical tutor will be employed at each hub and students will spend 1 day per week back at the hub for group learning, reflective and debrief activities.
- Teaching Arrangements
- Lectures
- Tutorials
- Fieldwork
- Textbooks
No textbooks required.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Communication,
Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Ethics, Environmental literacy, Information
literacy, Self-motivation, Teamwork.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this paper will:
Communication, Collaboration & Research
- Use appropriate communication techniques to establish and maintain a collaborative and constructive relationship with people and colleagues
- Modify 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 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 enquires effectively, gather appropriate information, applly knowledge of evidence-based literature/ resources, and interpret and critically appraise information to provide an individual answer
Pharmaceutical Literacy
- Evaluate and recommend the suitability of a dosage form, route of administration, storage, and appropriate use with respect to therapeutic efficacy
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 to assist in developing a person-centred care plan
- Document activities clearly, concisely, and accurately using appropriate medical terminology
- 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
- Identify and describe the role of te Tiriti o Waitangi in maintaining indigenous health rights for Māori in Aotearoa/New Zealand and in contributing to Māori health advancement
- Reflect on their interaction with 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
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
- 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 experiences of the working environments of pharmacists
