Continuing Professional Development CPD Update

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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Update

• Pharmacy Directorate
• NHS Education for Scotland

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RPSGB CPD Framework
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How can I record my CPD?

• Online (encouraged and preferred by RPSGB)
• - You will require your RPSGB membership
  number, username and password
• Desk-top format
• More info available form RPSGB
• Paper submissions
• -only on RPSGB approved documentation
• -Must stick to the boxes provided as
  scanned into system and anything out with the
  boxes may be lost

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What must I do for the RPSGB?

• Make a minimum of 9 CPD entries per year (from
  March 2009) which reflect the context and scope
  of your practice as a pharmacist or as a
  registered pharmacy technician.
• Submit your CPD entries when asked to do so
• - CPD records will be called from July 2009

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You should also.

• Maintain a learning portfolio with records of
  attendance and key learning points from
  continuing education and notes of other learning
  e.g. through work.
• This may be requested by the society if there is
  a problem with your CPD entries or if someone has
  made a complaint about you as a professional.

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Why must you comply with the RPSGB standards?

• Registrants are in breach of the Code of Ethics
  if
• There is failure to respond to request for CPD
  records
• -you will receive one letter 2 reminders
• -you will have approximately 6 weeks to
  submit
• Anyone with a personal problem should negotiate
  an extension.
• They fail to submit their CPD records
• Breach of Code of Ethics - cases considered
  under non-referral procedures. A black mark will
  be put against your name on the register
• Repeated breach of Code of Ethics - referred to
  RPSGB Investigating Committee ? Ultimately
  struck off register.

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Where do I start ?

• You can start at any point of the CPD cycle when
  recording your CPD
• reflection, planning, action or
  evaluation.
• Need to have a variety of different types of
  records.
• BUT.
• The RPSGB states that..
• Some of your entries must start at reflection

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What happens if I have documented nothing to date?

• You must complete 9 records per annum from March
  2009. Records will be viewed in a 5 year cycle,
  thus if your CPDs are requested in March 2010,
  you should be submitting-
• 9 entries from March 2009-2010
• Some entries from March 2008-2009
• Some entries from March 2007-2008
• Some entries from March 2006-2007
• Some entries from March 2005-2006
• By 2014 we should all have a minimum of 45 CPD
  records to submit!

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Do not panic!

• Start today. Aim to undertake and document at
  least 1-2 pieces of learning per month. This may
  be easier in a group or by having a buddy call
  you at the beginning of each month to motivate
  you
• Look back in your diary for the last 4 years-what
  learning events did you attend? - what did you
  learn? Document these now! The longer you wait,
  the more difficult it will become to remember

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When starting at reflection

• Ask yourself the question-
• What do I want to learn? or What do I want to be
  able to
• do?
• e.g. More about homeopathic treatments for
  cystitis
• Why?
• e.g. A patient asked me to advise the best
  homeopathic treatment for her cystitis

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Planning is next..

• Deadline date
• - When do I need to know this? Pick a realistic
  achievable date !
• What impact will this learning have on me, my
  colleagues, my patients, the organisation?
• - Important to spend a bit of time on this
  section and consider all the elements of this
  question. If the learning will have little impact
  on all 4 elements, should you be doing it?

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In our earlier example.

• I will learn about the homeopathic treatment
  options available in cystitis. This is a common
  ailment and will assist me in directing patients
  to the best treatment options available thus
  having an important impact on the patient.
  Providing good pharmaceutical care to these
  patients will have a positive impact on the
  organisation or business I work for. I plan to
  share my learning with my colleagues and
  pre-registration trainee, thus my learning will
  have an impact on their knowledge and practice
• Important to write something here, do not just
  tick the available boxes

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How could you learn this?

• Consider different options. You can list them
  all, you dont have to do them all, but may help
  identify the best learning method for you
• Attending a course? not possible, need answer in
  2 days
• Spend some time in homeopathic hospital shadowing
  pharmacist ? not possible, need answer in 2 days
• Phone homeopathic pharmacist and discuss
  treatment options
• Complete a distance learning package ? not
  possible, need answer in 2 days
• Read available published papers on e-library ?
  time consuming

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Then..

• Just pick the option or options that most suit
• -your learning style
• -the level of knowledge you wish to have on the
  area
• -your timescale
• Remember to use a variety of options in the CPD
  reports that
• you submit.
• Stating you attended a course for all your
  learning needs will
• be picked up in your report. Using only one
  method of learning is not considered good
  practice..

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Action is next..

• What have you learned?
• Do go into some detail here so there is some
  evidence that the learning has actually taken
  place
• In our example..
• I had a 45 minute discussion with the
  pharmacist at the homeopathic hospital who was
  very helpful and felt that in elderly patients
  treatment X would be the preferred option however
  in younger patients treatment Y taken 6 times a
  day with food would be better.

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Evaluation of your learning

• How have your applied or used this learning?
• An important question and must be completed.
• e.g. I was able to direct the patient to the best
  treatment for cystitis and able to counsel her
  on how to take the drug and when to expect relief
  from her symptoms
• Describe any feedback you have had ?
• An important question and must be completed.
• e.g. My patient and her husband thanked me for
  the information I had given them. She bought the
  product I suggested and I wrote out a dosage
  schedule for her

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Have fully met your learning objective?

• If you feel you havent fully met your learning
  objective you will be asked what you have still
  to learn
• e.g. Although I now know about the 2 homeopathic
  products for cystitis that I sell, there are many
  more products that I dont stock in the shop at
  present
• Why did you not fully meet your learning
  objective?
• Time constraints-the patient was returning in
  2 days
• A more detailed study of homeopathic medicines
  would be
• your next learning objective!

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An example starting at ACTION

• Please describe the activity you have undertaken?
• Attended a NES Training Evening on respiratory
  medicine
• What have you learnt as a result?
• The importance of ensuring an accurate
  asthma/COPD diagnosis.
• A further appreciation of the Step-Wise
  approach and the need to move up and down the
  steps as the condition changes.
• The change in guidance that adds a long acting
  Beta 2 agonist before increasing the dose

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Evaluation

• Please describe an example of how you have
  applied this learning?
• I now check prescriptions where steroid doses are
  above 800 mcg/day and discuss with the patient if
  a long acting Beta 2 agonist has not been
  prescribed and symptoms are not well controlled.
  I was able to explain to a patient who was
  prescribed oral steroids for the first time the
  nature of the step-wise approach.
• Describe any feedback from those on whom this
  learning has had an impact
• Patients have thanked me both for my advice and
  for my interest in their condition.
• Have you identified any learning needs as a
  result of undertaking this activity?
• Yes/No

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What happens after I submit my records?

• Generation of an executive summary ? this will be
  mailed to you
• Automatic generation of feedback report? online
  and more detailed than the executive summary

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Why CPD review?

• Ensure compliance with CPD standards
• Encourage support via feedback process
• Encourage engagement in CPD
• Increase practitioner confidence and competence
• Prepares for statutory regulation revalidation
• Protects the public

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Review criteria

• Reviewers will
• ONLY review whats in CPD entry
• ONLY base feedback on review criteria
• Reviewers will not
• make value judgements on content
• Apply their quality criteria
• Will not give advice on what they would do

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Where can I get further support?

• CPD Team at RPSGB (London)
• 020 7572 2540
• cpd_at_rpsgb.org
• CPD Website www.uptodate.org.uk
• CPD Materials-
• Getting started guide
• Case studies
• FAQs
• NES - CPD Surgeries/local tutors/ NES team (0141
  223 1600)
• E mail- pharmacy_at_nes.scot.nhs.uk
• RPSGB CPD Facilitators