Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
SIRCDIS005 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Assist in preparing extemporaneous prescriptions
Version 1.0
Issue Date: May 2024
Qualification | - |
Unit of Competency | SIRCDIS005 - Assist in preparing extemporaneous prescriptions |
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Description | |||
Employability Skills | |||
Learning Outcomes and Application | This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to assist pharmacists to prepare ingredients and non-sterile extemporaneous pharmaceutical products from fixed formulas.This unit applies to senior dispensary assistants working in community pharmacies. When preparing extemporaneous prescriptions, they work under the direct supervision of a pharmacist and their role is limited to those compounding functions that do not require them to exercise professional pharmaceutical judgement or discretion.This unit incorporates the requirement for pharmacy assistants to comply with federal, state and territory law and Pharmacy Board of Australia Guidelines for supplying scheduled Pharmacy Medicines (S2) and Pharmacist Only Medicines (S3). At the time of publication, they are not, however, required to hold an occupational licence or to be certified as competent in this unit to dispense scheduled medicines. | ||
Duration and Setting | X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting. Skills must be demonstrated in a pharmacy with a designated operational compounding area and storage facilities for pharmaceutical raw materials. This must be in an industry workplace which meets Pharmacy Board of Australia and relevant industry standards for preparing extemporaneous prescriptions. Assessment must ensure use of: information technology hardware and software dispensary and stock control software currently used by the community pharmacy industry refrigerator or freezer dedicated to pharmaceuticals measuring and mixing equipment: heating equipment mixing slabs mortar and pestle spatulas and mixing rods syringes tweezers volumetric containers; beakers and measuring cylinders a range of containers: air-tight containers light-resistant (amber glass or high-density plastic) containers moisture-proof containers sealed containers for ready-to-use unit-doses secure packaging including child-resistant containers waste disposal bags and containers for pharmaceutical waste including sharps containers personal protective equipment: closed footwear disposable gloves face masks hairnets lab coats safety glasses or goggles a diverse commercial product range of pharmaceutical raw materials in these forms: drops creams gels liquid ointments pastes powders purified water cleaning and disinfecting products used for: compounding work areas and work bench surfaces compounding equipment cleaning cloths: dry lint-free wet fully completed compounding worksheets for a diverse range of extemporaneous prescriptions cautionary and advisory medicine labels pharmacy medicine labels to insert customer details and directions for use Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s Professional Practice Standards – provisions relevant to compounding (extemporaneous dispensing) organisational procedures for preparing extemporaneous prescriptions pharmaceutical and cleaning product Safety Data Sheets (SDS) or plain English workplace documents or diagrams that interpret SDS content pharmacists with whom the individual can interact assessment activities that allow the individual to work with commercial speed, timing and productivity to complete compounding activities within nominated deadlines. Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisation’s requirements for assessors, and: have worked in the pharmacy sector for at least two years. |
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Competency Field | Dispensary |
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
Slides PPT |
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Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Prepare for compounding process. |
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Element: Select and measure ingredients. |
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Element: Prepare compounded products. |
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Element: Maintain records and compounding materials. |
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