Area: | School of Pharmacy |
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Credits: | 12.5 |
Contact Hours: | 2.0 |
** 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 2 Hours Weekly |
Tutorial: | 2 x 1 Hours Once-only |
Workshop: | 4 x 1 Hours Once-only |
Syllabus: | Role of the pharmacist as a professional. Factors governing professional pharmaceutical practice. Legislation controlling drug products - introduction of new drug products; private and government - subsidised drug distribution systems; international regulations and their effects on the Australian drug Market. Introduction to Regulatory control of drugs - Therapeutic Goods Act; National Health Act; WA Poisons Act and Pharmacy Act. Procuration, storage and sale of ethical goods. Defining pharmaceutical practice-professionalism and code of ethics. Dispensing of prescriptions - introduction to pricing of ethical drug products and prescriptions; professional fees and mark-up. Guidelines in dispensing, labeling of ethical goods and prescriptions, counselling and ancillary labels; consumer medicines information, product information, aids to counseling. Quality use of medicines-drug use evaluation, drug usage in Australia, National Prescribing Service, therapeutic guidelines, drug policies. Introduction to health and illness as social concepts - patient - pharmacist relationships, compliance and concordance, Indigenous perspectives of pharmacy. |
** 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: | 060500 Pharmacy (Narrow Grouping) |
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: | Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information |
Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
Year | Location | Period | Internal | Partially Online Internal | Area External | Central External | Fully Online |
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2010 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | ||||
2010 | 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