Course and Subject Handbook 2024 Courses Non Award Courses Extended Community Practice for Pharmacists - Training Component 1 and 2

Extended Community Practice for Pharmacists - Training Component 1 and 2

Handbook year

Information valid for students commencing in 2024

Course code

120822

Course type

Non-Award Postgraduate (non-AQF course)

Owner

Academy

College

Medicine and Dentistry

Award Requirements

Admission Requirements

Course pre-requisites

General registration with the Pharmacy Board of Australia with no conditions and currently working in community or hospital practice in QLD.

Pharmacists will be required to have completed the following two training packages prior to commencement:

  • Pharmacist immunisation training
  • The Urinary Tract Infection Pharmacy Pilot – Queensland (UTIPP-Q) training module

Minimum English language proficiency requirements

Applicants must meet the AHPRA Registration Standard: English Language Skills.  Evidence of current general registration with the Pharmacy Board of Australia will satisfy the Minimum English language proficient requirement.

Academic Requirements for Course Completion

Credit Points12 credit points as per course structure

Course learning outcomes

On successful completion of Extended Community Practice for Pharmacists - Training Component 1 and 2, graduates will be able to:

  1. Conduct an appropriate consultation and/or medical history, physical examination, and order and interpret appropriate pathology and investigations, to develop a working diagnosis within scope or refer out-of-scope patient presentations
  2. Identify, evaluate, and apply established evidence and approved clinical protocols in the provision of care and education listed within a Pharmacists expanding scope of practice
  3. Systematically plan safe, collaborative, effective, client centred, clinical care and self-management education for listed conditions within the identified scope of the Pharmacist
  4. Apply principles of accountable prescribing to the provision of integrated safe, accountable, and culturally sensitive patient care, utilizing a collaborative approach with patients, their carers, and other healthcare professionals, underpinned by the biopsychosocial model of medical assessment
  5. Document and communicate treatment options, agreed plan, and monitored progress with patient, carers, and patients’ other health care provider
  6. Reflect on current skills, knowledge and attitudes, and plan ongoing professional development.

Inherent Requirements

Inherent requirements

Inherent requirements are the identified abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours that must be demonstrated, during the learning experience, to successfully complete a course. These abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours preserve the academic integrity of the University's learning, assessment, and accreditation processes, and where applicable, meet the standards of a profession. For more information please visit: Extended Community Practice for Pharmacists

Reasonable adjustments

All JCU students have the opportunity to demonstrate, with reasonable adjustments where applicable, the inherent requirements for their course. For more information please visit: Student Disability Policy and Procedure.

Course Structure

CORE SUBJECTS

Level 1

PC6100:03 Professional Practice for Pharmacists 1

PC6200:03 Professional Practice for Pharmacists 2

PC6300:06 Safe Prescribing for Pharmacists

Location

COURSE AVAILABLE AT

NOTES

JCU Townsville

Mixed Mode Only

Candidature

Expected time to complete

1 year part-time

Maximum time to complete

1 year

Maximum leave of absence

Not Applicable

Progression

Course progression requisites

Nil

Course includes mandatory professional placement(s)

No

Course includes mandatory fieldwork

No

Special assessment
requirements

Nil

Professional accreditation
requirements

Nil

Supplementary exam for
final subject

 Not Applicable

Award Details

Award title

Not applicable – this is a non-award course

Approved abbreviation

Not applicable – this is a non-award course

Inclusion of majors on testamur

Students completing this course do not receive a testamur

Exit with lesser award

Not applicable