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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

312062 (v.1) Contemporary Patient Care 622

Note

Tuition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.

Area: School of Pharmacy
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Lecture: 2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Evolution of Australian Pharmacy Practice and industry trends and developments. Provision of pharmaceutical services to residential care facilities and hospitals. Clinical governance as it relates to the quality use of medicines including drug utilisation review and evaluation, formularies, therapeutic guidelines and the national Prescribing Service. Provision of medication review services, disease state management, health promotion and other current advancements in cognitive pharmaceutical service delivery. Provision of dose administration aids including application of pharmaceutical principles to the repackaging of pharmaceuticals. Harm minimisation. Quality assurance and continuous quality improvement in pharmaceutical practice. Continuous professional development.
Field of Education: 060501 Pharmacy
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External