Courses Handbook 2007 - [ Archived ]

303189 (v.2) Pharmaceutical Practice 321


Area:

School of Pharmacy

Credits:

12.5

Contact Hours:

5.0
 
** 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. **
 

Lecture:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

1 x 3 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

    12937 (v.2) Pharmaceutics 200 or any previous version
    OR
    310386 (v.1) Pharmaceutics 202 or any previous version
 

Syllabus:

Communication skills including practical aspects of patient care and counselling in pharmaceutical practice. Patient medication records, legal aspects of patient medication records. Competencies for entry level pharmacists. Legislation applicable to drugs and medicines - Poisons Act and Regulations, National Health Act and Regulations. Schedule of Benefits. Dispensing of extemporaneous formulations, dispensing prescriptions, prescription review, legality, restrictions, Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and private prescriptions. The health care system in Australia.
 
** 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. **
 

Field of Education:

061309 Community Health

Funding Cluster:

06 - Computing, Built Environment, Health

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2007 Bentley Campus Semester 1 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

 
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