Essential knowledge (contd): Different types of medication orders and their different labelling requirements, including: inpatient items outpatient PBS and Section 100 prescriptions Dosages and administration methods for commonly used drugs Drug schedules and their different dispensing/ handling/recording requirement, including schedule 8 drugs Factors affecting the administration of drugs and pharmacokinetics Hygiene and the importance of maintaining a clean working environment and equipment Identification and handling of products, including formulary drugs and non-formulary drugs eg clinical trial drugs and special access scheme drugs products with the required integrity as well as those whose integrity has been compromised eg damaged, contaminated or deteriorated stock routine handling of products and products requiring special handling, eg cytotoxics and its spill management, refrigerated and frozen items, light sensitive materials and flammables Personal hygiene and the use of protective clothing Pharmacy dispensary systems Policies, standards and guidelines, industry codes of practice, legislative and regulatory requirements in regards to performing dispensary administrative tasks Prescribing conventions, and abbreviations and medical terminology used for instructions for the use of medicines Principles and procedures of maintaining security of pharmaceutical products Principles of calculations, weights and measures and knowledge of pharmaceutical calculations using SI system Procedures and rationale for validating prescriptions Rationale for applicable legislation, organisation policy and in-house standard operating procedures (SOPs), relating to prescription preparation Requirements to be satisfied for a complete, unambiguous and valid prescription and actions to take if validity is questionable Hospital or health facility in-house computer system Infection control policies, guidelines and symbols and their relevance to working in a hospital pharmacy OHS policies, guidelines and symbols and their relevance to working in a hospital pharmacy Procedures for dealing with returned goods Relevant reference material |