Course and Subject Handbook 2025 Courses Postgraduate Courses Graduate Certificate of Advanced Practice and Prescribing for Pharmacists

Graduate Certificate of Advanced Practice and Prescribing for Pharmacists

Handbook year

Information valid for students commencing in 2025

Course code

120811

Course type

Graduate Certificate (AQF Level 8)

Professional accreditation status

Subject PC6300: Safe Prescribing for Pharmacists is accredited with conditions by the Australian Pharmacy Council.

Owner

Academy

College

Medicine and Dentistry

Award Requirements

Admission Requirements

Course pre-requisites

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

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.

Post admission
requirements

Students must complete the following to complete the Graduate Certificate of Advanced Practice and Prescribing for Pharmacists:

  • Attend all residentials
  • Successfully undertake 120 hours of Learning in Practice
  • Successfully complete all assessment tasks.
  • Successfully pass the End-of-program OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination).

Students must identify a suitable Designated Prescriber to facilitate the completion of relevant assessment tasks in the course.

Students are strongly encouraged to purchase the following equipment:

  • A penlight torch
  • A Littmann Classic III stethoscope
  • An otoscope

Academic Requirements for Course Completion

Credit Points

12 credit points as per course structure

Additional course rules

Must complete PC6300, PC6100 and PC6200 prior to sitting the OSCE

Additional completion
requirements

Nil

Course learning outcomes

On successful completion of Graduate Certificate of Advanced Practice and Prescribing for Pharmacists, 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 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:  Graduate Certificate of Advanced Practice for Prescribing 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

Trimester 1

PC6300:06 Safe Prescribing for Pharmacists

Trimester 2

PC6100:03 Professional Practice for Pharmacists 1

Trimester 3

PC6200:03 Professional Practice for Pharmacists 2

Location

COURSE AVAILABLE AT

NOTES

JCU Townsville

Mixed Mode Only

Candidature

Expected time to complete

1 year part-time

Maximum time to complete

2 Years part time

Maximum leave of absence

Nil

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

Credit

Eligibility

Students may apply for credit for previous tertiary study in accordance with the Credit Transfer Procedure

Maximum allowed

Up to 6 credit points from another accredited or approved program or where a student transfers from one JCU award to another, then credit may be granted for more than two-thirds of the new award, where there is subject equivalence between the awards.

Currency

Credit will be granted only for subjects completed in the 2 years prior to the commencement of this course

Expiry

Credit gained for any subject shall be cancelled 4 years after the date of the examination upon which the credit is based if, by then, the student has not completed this course.-

Other restrictions

Not applicable

Award Details

Award title

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE OF ADVANCED PRACTICE AND PRESCRIBING FOR PHARMACISTS

Approved abbreviation

GCertAdvPracPresPharm

Exit with lesser award

Not applicable