Prerequisites for Module
None in addition to course entry requirements or in consultation with the Course Leader.
Corequisite Modules
None.
Precluded Modules
None.
Aims of Module
To provide the student with the ability to systematically synthesise, implement, and evaluate care plans for individual patients.
Learning Outcomes for Module
On completion of this module, students are expected to be able to:
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Retrieve medicines and patient information from a wide variety of sources and incorporate this information into care plans.
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Synthesise, document and implement care plans including monitoring and evaluating patients' response to therapy and modifying treatment accordingly.
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Critically evaluate the findings of clinical history taking and assessment to inform a working diagnosis.
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Demonstrate attainment of relevant professional interpersonal communication.
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Demonstrate a reflective approach to practice focussing on legal, ethical and professional frameworks.
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Indicative Module Content
Relevant sources, utilisation and limitations of medicines and patient information. Documentation of medical records.
Clinical management plans, therapeutic plans, documentation, systematic implementation and evaluation, monitoring response including physical examination, modifying treatment, reporting adverse drug reactions. Principles of diagnosis (including differential diagnosis and referral for diagnosis), informed consent, professional judgement, patient monitoring.
Use of common diagnostic aids. Recognising and responding to common signs and symptoms indicative of clinical problems.
Framework for prescribing budgets and cost-effective prescribing. Prescribing within the context of the local health economy.
Legal, regulatory and professional frameworks for medical and non-medical prescribing, supply and administration of medicines.
| Record keeping, documentation, professional responsibility, writing prescriptions, confidentiality, Caldicott and Data Protection, Freedom of Information Act.
Professional relationships and communication with healthcare professionals, pharmacy staff and patients, role and function of other team members. Interface between multiple prescribers. Autonomous working and decision making.
Reflective practice, awareness of own limitations, continuing professional development.
Indicative Student Workload
Directed Study
| Distance Learning | Assessment
| 3 | Directed reading
| 5 | Residential period
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Private Study
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| 7 |
Mode of Delivery
The module is largely delivered by a residential period in the Pharmaceutical Care Centre and supplemented by self-directed learning from web based learning materials.
Assessment Plan
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Learning Outcomes Assessed
| | Component 1 | 1,2,3,4
| | Component 2 | 5
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Componenent 2 will be a reflective essay.
Component 1 will be an objective structured clinical examination assessing practical clinical skills.
Indicative Bibliography
| 1. | British Medical Association and Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. British National Formulary. Current edition. London: BMJ Publishing Group.
| | 2. | Longmore, J., 2005. Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine 6th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
| | 3. | Douglas, G., Nicol, F., Robertson, C., eds., 2005. Macleod's Clinical Examination. 11th ed. Edinburgh: Elsevier Churchill Livingston.
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Additional Notes
This 5 point module is derived from the 15 point module Pharmaceutical Care Planning PHM005 and together with the three modules PHM017 Prescribing and Public Health, PHM018 Medicines, Prescribers and People, and PHM020 Therapeutics, comprises the 20 SCQF point rated university based element of the short course, Pharmacist Independent Prescribing.
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