Lecture 2 Flashcards
Profession
- extensive specialised training
- specialised knowledge and skills
- Code of Ethics
- Licensing and restrictions
- Autonomy and self-regulation
- identify and affiliate with the group
5E’s of Professionalism
- Education
- Ethics
- Experience
- Examination
- Entity
Education
format qualifications or certification and CPD expectations
Ethics
Professional and ethical standards
Expectations of practice and conduct
Experience
Personal capabilities and expectations
Entity
A body to oversee professional entry, professional standards and compliance expectations on behalf of the public
Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003
HPCA ACT 2003
- framework of regulation to protect public
- life long competence of health practitioners to protect public
Definition of HPCA Act 2003
- what is a restricted profession
- scopes of practise and restricted activities
- qualifications for each scope
Pharmacy Council
- the regulator
- registers pharmacists
- set the standards
- deal with breaches of the standards and fitness to practise
The regulator
established under the HPCA Act
Standards
- codes of Ethics 2018
- Competence Standards
Standards and fitness to practise
- Conduct
- Competence
- Health
Pharmaceutical Society
The representative of pharmacy
- Lobbies government
- Works with health funders
- Provides pre-reg training programmes
- Provides recertification programme (CPD)
Code of Ethics 2018
- Health and wellbeing of patients first priority
- Practise and promote patient-centred care
- Professional judgement in the interests of patients and wider community
- Honesty and integrity
- Practise under conditions which uphold the professional independence, judgement and integrity of themselves and others
- Commitment to continual professional and personal development to enhance pharmacy practice
- Work collaboratively for patient-centred and optimise results
Competence Standards (2015)
- the habitual practice for the benefit of the individual and community
- lifelong series of doing and reflecting and focuses on the behaviours
The Eight Star Pharmacist
Caregiver Decision-maker Communication Manager Life-long learner Teacher Leader Researcher
Caregiver
View practice as integrated and continuous
Decision-maker
Evaluate, synthesise data and information for most appropriate course of action
Communication
Links between parties involved
Manager
Manage resources and information effectively
Life-long learner
Commit to life-long learning
Teacher
Assist future generations
Leader
Compassion and empathy, vision, make decisions, communicate and manage effectively
Researcher
Advise rational use of medicines to increase the accessibility of unbiased info.
Engage in the generation of evidence