Your placement program

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Your placement program

• Information you will need to know to successfully
  pass AP400/401 Professional Placement

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A couple of points

• Introducing Ms Emma Owens Clinical Placement
  Unit
• Double check your roster allocated your
  placements?
• Are you enrolled correctly? the Uni cant help
  you once the due date is passed plus you need to
  be enrolled to have insurance cover
• Name badges must be ordered by this Friday and
  paid at time of ordering (Dont forget your tops)
• Chemplus deal
• If you found an interstate placements yourself
  let Karen know of the arrangements ASAP

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TWO BIG HINTS

• Read your CIB
• Read your placement book thoroughly before you
  go
• Be nice to your mum
• If you are not sure.ask or email me

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Aims

• Gain insight in the practice of pharmacy and
  health
• Participate in health- and pharmacy-related
  activities (where possible and appropriate)
• Work with pharmacists and other health
  professionals to participate in patient care
  activities
• To talk with pharmacists and others on issues of
  interest
• Explore career options

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How to fail your placement

• Show boredom
• Dont listen
• Dont try
• Hiding
• Turn up late
• Dont ask appropriate questions
• Do something thats illegal or unethical
• You have a problem but dont contact me

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The placement is

• All about taking the opportunity to practice
  applying your knowledge and skills in a real life
  setting
• All about showing interest and initiative (you
  never know who your future employer will be!)
• Not about just doing enough to complete your work
  book exercises
• these exercises are designed to give you and your
  preceptor a framework for your placement

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Assessment
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Assessment

• Your preceptor will mark specific work book
  exercises. A proforma mark sheet is provided for
  the preceptor
• You to check the assessment requirements for each
  exercise
• Its your responsibility to ensure the preceptor
  marks these exercises
• Its your responsibility to ask for feedback

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Assessment

• The balance of the exercises will be marked upon
  receipt of the work book
• The material must be readable and professionally
  written!
• The work book must be submitted by the due date
• Extension applications must be made by at least 7
  days before the due date
• Remember that Academic Integrity applies to these
  Courses

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Continuing Professional Development

• All practising Pharmacists are required to
  participate in the CPD program. This is run by
  the Pharmacy Board to ensure pharmacists are
  competent.
• Read all about the ENRICH program by accessing
  the web site. You will need to prepare for this
  exercise BEFORE the start of the placement.
• Its your responsibility to obtain and record
  your feedback
• Not marked, but has to be completed before I mark
  the rest of the book.

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Assessment - specialised placements

• By arrangement with Dr March
• Usually a written report of about 4500 words

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The Work Book

• You should read your work book well before you
  start the placement
• This means reading the
• General Introduction
• Note for Students
• Exercises
• Assessment requirements, and
• Appendices

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Your responsibilities

• Community pharmacy TGA rural hospital only
• Contact your preceptor about 2 weeks prior to
  the start of the placement and have a
  conversation.
• You do not need to send a CV that has already
  been done

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Your responsibilities

• Malaysian placements
• All students are to report to the chief
  pharmacist
• Discuss with pharmacist what is possible at site
• Need a letter from UniSA and Malaysian NRIC
• At all times in the hospital
• wear office attire and tie for males
• white coat with UniSA name-tag/badge 

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Your responsibilities

• Complete the Placement Objectives
• Remember that its your responsibility to get the
  exercises signed by preceptors and to ensure they
  understand the Exercise requirements (including
  compulsory/replaceable, feedback for the CPD
  exercise)

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Your responsibilities

• Use your objectives to work out a program with
  your preceptor during the orientation session at
  the start of your placement.
• Always listen carefully and ask plenty of
  questions
• Ensure you fulfil the requirements of Core
  Behaviours

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Your responsibilities

• Absent
• you need to inform the preceptor if you are ill
  as soon as possible
• then you need to phone/email me or Karen
• Confidentiality
• You should never talk about patients outside the
  professional area
• You will lose 20 of your total mark if you leave
  a name of a patient or Dr in your work book (even
  if you didnt mean to!)

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Your responsibilities

• Insurance/accidents and other info
• http//www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/learn/UniSAnet-1/
  ?PATH/Resources/hsc/Students/defaultWelcome.htm
  
• Salary Ha ha ha!
• Signing Exercises
• No Preceptor signature no mark

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My responsibilities

• Contact Geoff if you have any problems with your
  placement before it gets serious!
• My role is to support both students and
  preceptors to ensure both parties get the best
  out of the placement.
• On very rare occasions I will take a student out
  of a placement and find a new one.
• For students in Malaysia, contact Mr Narinder
  (see workbook for details) or else email me.

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EXERCISES

• Read your exercises carefully
• Take note of the Competency box go and read the
  PSA standards.
• I give you some hints and important information
  in the notes dont read them at your peril!

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Medicines Review

• Not all pharmacists are involved in HMR
• You may be lucky to accompany an HMR pharmacist
• Your pharmacy may have case studies of HMRs
  access one without seeing the final report!
  After you have had a go and completed the
  exercise in the work book, compare your judgement
  with the HMR pharmacist's opinion
• Where there is no HMR undertaken and you are
  unable to achieve the alternatives, email me and
  I will send you a mock HMR to complete.

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Patient counselling

• Aim for a minimum of ten interactions
• You should practice using a CMI as frequently as
  possible
• When speaking with people who are picking up
  repeats, consider asking
• How well is your condition controlled/managed
• Do you think your medication is working?
• Have you noticed anything different recently?

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Teaching your pharmacistCase study/oral
presentation

• An opportunity to give something back
• Community
• Choose a recently released Mx, or talk with your
  pharmacist
• You need to be critical of the information, not
  simply repeat the PI!
• Remember no pharmacies have AV aids
• Hospital
• Work with your pharmacist to identify a case
• Read the notes accompanying the exercise
• Determine type and availability of AV aids

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Cant do an exercise?

• There are mandatory exercises and replaceable
  exercises in some placement sites
• You must complete the mandatory exercises.
• You can chose to do the exercises outlined in the
  book or replace them with another exercise.
  Consult your precpetor.

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Your placement is unusual!

• Some placements dont fit into the traditional
  mold eg TGA, placement with an aboriginal health
  service with no pharmacist, Helping Hand Inc,
  overseas placement other than Malaysia or
  Singapore, podiatry, aged care)
• Your workbook and assessment will be
  individualised to suit the placement this will
  be done by Dr March in consultation with the
  placement supervisor

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Placement Feedback

• Your placement evaluation is
• important
• Please fill in the evaluation
• form at the back of your
• workbook
• I am available to discuss any issues you wish to
  confidentially raise about your placement

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CEI and SET

• Your chance to provide feedback about the Course
  and its administration
• It will done via pen and paper
• Karen will email you the form at the end of each
  rotation
• Please complete it immediately and return it to
  Karen
• I do not have access to these forms, just the
  results

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