VCP2011

Pharmacy practice II A ( 3 points, SCA Band 2, 0.063 EFTSL)

Leader: Mr Greg Duncan

Offered:
Parkville First semester 2005 (Day)

Synopsis: Counselling and communications. Patient compliance. Patient education. Introduction to public health. Systematic patient care. Health literacy. Standards and competencies.

Objectives: Students will develop an: - Understanding of effective communication with patients and prescribers; health literacy; the problems of medication non-compliance and means of overcoming them; the role of the pharmacist in patient education; illness behaviour, normal and abnormal; the placebo effect and how it relates to pharmacy practice; the concepts of self role and sick role; systematic care of patients including of pharmaceutical care; competencies and standards in professional pharmacy. - Ability in the areas of accessing information; written and oral communication; patient counselling; problem-solving in clinically oriented situations; creating, maintaining and utilising individual patient records. - Appreciation of the relationships existing between drugs, medicines, patients and society; and the role of the pharmacist in patient care.

Assessment: Written examination: 80% (3 hours), tutorial assessment (online)

Contact Hours: The unit will have 18 lectures over 12 weeks; 5x3hr tutorials

Prerequisites: VCP1011

Corequisites: There are no special corequisites for this unit