WEEK 3 - Preparing for prescribing: Scope of prescribing practice Flashcards
(6 cards)
What is scope of practice
The activities a HCP carries out within their professional role
NOTE: HCP must have training, knowledge, skills and experience to deliver activities lawfully, safely and effectively
What qualities must HCP possess
- HCP must work within limits of their knowledge + skills
- HCP must recognise limits within own knowledge + skills
- HCP must accept personal responsibility and accountability for prescribing and clinical decisions
- Ensures confidence and competence to prescribe are maintained
- Be arare of employers / organisations guidance
What is scope of competence and list the 4 types
The ability to do something successfully or efficiently
4 Types of Competence
1. Unconscious incompetence (start here)
2. Conscious incompetence
- learn this
3. Conscious competence
- develop skills, knowledge, attitudes, behaviours for task further
4. Unconscious competence
- mastery level
- don’t need to think about task, muscle memory
Explain the relationship between ‘scope of practice’ and ‘scope of competence’
Need to have an overlap between the 2
= GOOD
- By learning more about factors affecting scope of practice can increase the overlap
What 7 factors determine scope of practice
- Clinical condition
- Type/stage of prescribing
- Sector, setting or location
- Age
- Commincation difficulties
- Complexity
- has pt got multiple comorbidites, allergies, impairment, polypharmacy - Own experiences
- how you identify challneges + deal with them, confidence, state of mind etc.
Suggest possible scopes of prescribing practice for newly qualified pharmacists
7 potential tool
- Develop a personal formulary
- Service user feedback
- Reflect on key cases and interventions
- Conduct audits of clinical effectiveness
- Portfolio of evidence for prescribing competenacies
- Competence of self-assessment and learning contract
- Have records of training and clincal supervision
