- Department: Health Sciences
- Credit value: 30 credits
- Credit level: M
- Academic year of delivery: 2022-23
- See module specification for other years: 2023-24
Due to Professional, Regulatory Statutory Bodies (PRSB), different admissions criteria are used to achieve ensure the student is compliant with the relevant PRSB. Students will:
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Autumn Term 2022-23 to Spring Term 2022-23 |
The programme aims to support registered pharmacists to acquire the competencies for Independent and/or Supplementary Prescribing as set out in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (2016) A competency framework for all prescribers and enabled by legislation.
There is an emphasis on teaching the generic principles of safe and effective prescribing practice. The curriculum provides a balance of theory and practice, using a range of teaching and learning strategies.
On completion of the programme, prescribers will be able to:
Demonstrate competence in undertaking person-centred consultations, using diagnostic skills as required, leading to a prescribing decision.
Apply a deep and systematic understanding of pharmacology and medicines optimisation to prescribing practice.
Critically review and synthesise the local, national and global influences on prescribing practice.
Plan safe and effective management, informed by a systematic understanding of the evidence base underpinning prescribing practice.
Synthesis and apply evidence which informs and empowers the individual within shared decision making.
Critically appraises the ethical, legal and professional frameworks which underpin prescribing practice.
Analyse complex data from appropriate quality assurance tools, including audit, to improve prescribing practice.
Critically reflect on the skills of self and colleagues to work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team to enhance prescribing practice.
Consultation, medicines optimisation, pharmacology, numeracy, antimicrobial stewardship, prescribing across the lifespan, polypharmacy, deprescribing, adverse drug reactions, legal, ethical and professional considerations, influences on prescribing practice, consent and capacity, tools and resources to support prescribing practice.
Task | % of module mark |
---|---|
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled) | 0 |
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled) | 0 |
Essay/coursework | 100 |
Practical | 0 |
Non-compensatable
Task | % of module mark |
---|---|
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled) | 0 |
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled) | 0 |
Essay/coursework | 100 |
Practical | 0 |
Written feedback for the oral presentation is provided on the standard proforma, within the timescale specified in the programme handbook.
Students are provided with collective exam feedback relating to their cohort, within the timescale specified in the programme handbook.
Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) (2018) The code: Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates. London. Nursing & Midwifery Council.
Nursing and Midwifery Council (2018) Standards for Prescribing Programmes. London. Nursing and Midwifery Council
Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) (2016) A competency framework for all prescribers. London. Royal Pharmaceutical Society.