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The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the work role. This includes knowledge of:
legal and ethical requirements (national, state/territory) for pharmacy work, and how these are applied in organisations, including:codes of conductduty of care (and implications of negligence)informed consent privacy, confidentiality and disclosurerecords management rights and responsibilities of workers, employers and clientsspecific legislation:medicines and their usethe practice of pharmacydifferent schedules of medicines and pharmaceutical productswork role boundaries – responsibilities and limitationswork health and safetykey information in standard pharmaceutical references and their use:Australian pharmaceutical formulary and handbook (APF)MIMsAustralian medicines handbook (AMH) Micromedexthe role of, and how to utilise pharmacists with specific responsibilities: medicines informationquality use of medicines drug utilisation evaluation clinical trials and clinical pharmacistspharmacy managersorder of referencing in presentation of information i.e. primary, secondary, tertiary referencesconcept of drug utilisation evaluation and the data recordedconcept of key performance indicators and data reportedpharmacy or health facility management systems and procedures related to the collection and presentation of workplace data and informationtypes of data and information collected and presented in the pharmacy context:adverse drug reactions (ADR) and other medication incidents:data required for reportingmeaning of ADRprocess for reportingpurpose of reportingbiochemical, haematological and microbiology tests:purpose of testsunderstanding, of the abbreviations usedunderstanding of the concept of reference rangeclinical trials:purpose of collection of information and the data requiredunderstanding of the importance of maintaining confidentiality/blindingmeaning and purpose of medication reconciliation and the potential sources of data used to identify a client’s medication history and medication listtherapeutic drug monitoring:medicines that require monitoringpurpose of monitoringunderstanding of the concept of therapeutic rangeclient data interrogation and presentation:client unit record number how to ensure client data retrieved is for the correct clientconcept of key performance indicators and data reportedhow to identify and access client dataconcept of reference rangedifferent medicine groups and their roles, including:analgesics and anti-inflammatory agentsanti-coagulantsanti-depressantsanti-diabetic agentsanti-epilepticsanti-gout agentsanti-histaminesanti-hypertensivesanxiolytics and hypnoticsasthma treating agentscholesterol and lip lowering agentscorticosteroidsdiureticsgastro-intestinal agentsheart medicineshormonal medicinesosteoporosis medicinesviral and anti-bacterial agents, anti-fungals or antibioticsfactors affecting action of medicine groups:blood pressurebreast feedinggeriatrichepatic impairmentpaediatricpregnancyrenal impairmentissues that affect the use of medicine in an individual:bioavailabilitybioequivalencemedicines absorptionmedicines distributionmedicines eliminationmedicines half-lifemedicines metabolismconcept of medicinesmedicines interactionsmedicines food interactions and incompatibilities