Course description
Advanced Medicines Management
This module enables healthcare practitioners working in advanced roles to significantly expand their knowledge of pharmacology, related clinical sciences and the practice of medicines optimisation.
Successful completion of this module will enable you to demonstrate knowledge, skills and understanding required to underpin medicines optimisation. There will be emphasis on the domains of pharmaceutical knowledge; principles of drug dosage, side effects, reactions and interactions; communication and concordance; philosophy and the psychology of medicines management.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Entry requirements
- Evidence of ability to study at level 7
- Students should have been qualified as a health care professional for at least threeyears and have been in a post for at least one year.
- Professional registration as a healthcare professional:
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Working in health and social care.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Credits: 15
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module, youwill be able to:
- Apply knowledge of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics to your role, including the monitoring of response to therapy and justification to modify treatment.
- Critically evaluate your legal, ethical and professional responsibilities in relation to therapeutic/pharmacological treatments.
- Critically appraise sources of information, advice and decision support in medicines management and prescribing practice to enable synthesis of new frameworks for working.
Training Course Content
Consultation, decision-making and therapy, including referral
- Models of consultation
- Accurate assessment, history taking, communication and consultation with patients/clients and their parents/carers
- Concepts of working diagnosis or best formulation
- Confirmation of diagnosis/differential diagnosis - further examination, investigation, referral for diagnosis
- Medicines review of prescribed and other medication
Clinical pharmacology, including the effects of co-morbidity
- Pharmacology, including pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacotherapeutics
- Anatomy and physiology as applied to prescribing practice
- Basic principles of drugs to be prescribed, for example absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion, including adverse drug reactions (ADR)
- Interactions and reactions
- Patient/client compliance, concordance and drug response
- Impact of physiological state on drug responses and safety, for examplein elderly people, neonates, children and young people, pregnant or breast feeding women
- Pharmaco-therapeutics related to controlled drugs.
Evidence-based practice and clinical governance in relation to prescribing
- Rationale, adherence to and deviation from national and local guidelines, protocols, policies, decision support systems and formulae
- Reflective practice
- Critical appraisal skills, scrutinising data.
Medicines management in the public health context
- Policies regarding the use of antibiotics and vaccines
- Inappropriate use of medication including misuse, under- and over-use
- Inappropriate prescribing, over- and under-prescribing.
Course delivery details
Our CPD moduleswill be delivered usinghybrid learning. This means that depending on the subject and content of learning and teaching, modules will mainly be delivered via a combination of face to face and online delivery, as this has worked really well for our practice-based colleagues. A couple of modules will be delivered solely online, however for most modules face to face contact time and attendance at the university will be required.
Learning and teaching methods include:
- Enquiry-based learning, to develop critical thinking in e.g. legal, ethical and professional issues
- Lectures by specialist professionals
- E-learning
- Case studies/scenarios, to show the application of knowledge of drugs to clinical practice
- Student-led seminars, to show the application of knowledge of drugs to clinical practice.