Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
SIRCPPA015 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Assist customers with wound care products
Version 1.0
Issue Date: March 2024
Qualification | - |
Unit of Competency | SIRCPPA015 - Assist customers with wound care products |
---|---|---|---|
Description | |||
Employability Skills | |||
Learning Outcomes and Application | This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to gather information about customer needs, and provide suggestions and information on Pharmacy Medicines (S2) and unscheduled wound care products. It requires the ability to identify and act on triggers for referral to a pharmacist for therapeutic advice or supply of Pharmacist Only Medicines (S3).This unit applies to pharmacy assistants working in community pharmacies. They work with some independence, under general supervision and guidance from others, but ultimately under the supervising pharmacist.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 supply 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 designated front of pharmacy and dispensary areas. This can be: an industry workplace a simulated industry environment. Assessment must ensure use of: information technology hardware and software online information systems pharmacy display and storage locations, shelf facings and signage for wound care products a diverse, commercial product range of Pharmacy Medicines (S2) and unscheduled products for wound care: analgesics anti-inflammatory medicines antiseptic and saline washes cold and hot packs skincare products surgical sundries wound dressings customer brochures and leaflets providing information on: directions for product use care and maintenance of aids and equipment lifestyle and self-care practices specialist services that support wound care organisational procedures for supplying wound care medicines and products and providing advice on wound care customers with whom the individual can interact; these can be: customers in an industry workplace who are served by the individual during the assessment process; or individuals who participate in role plays or simulated activities, set up for the purpose of assessment, in a simulated industry environment operated within a training organisation. 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. |
||
Prerequisites/co-requisites | |||
Competency Field | Pharmacy Product Advice |
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
Slides PPT |
Assessment 1 | Assessment 2 | Assessment 3 | Assessment 4 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Collect information about customer wound care needs. |
| |||||||
Element: Assess customer information and determine need for referral. |
| |||||||
Element: Provide product, self-care and lifestyle information. |
| |||||||
Element: Maintain and develop knowledge of wound care, products and services. |
|