Module code: PRE7003-C
1. Prepare pharmacists to prescribe as independent and supplementary prescribers within current legal and professional guidelines
2. Enable experienced pharmacists to enhance their knowledge and gain critical awareness of contemporary issues in order to become safe, competent, effective and reflective non-medical prescribers.
8 broad areas have been defined as necessary to develop knowledge & skills needed to achieve competence as a prescriber:
1 Consultation, decision-making & therapy including referral. 2 Legal, Policy & Ethical Aspects: Legislation underpinning Independent & Supplementary prescribing practice. 3 Professional accountability & responsibility 4 Prescribing in a public health context. 5 Basic & applied therapeutics (including clinical pharmacology & the effects of co-morbidity). 6 Evidence based practice & clinical governance in relation to independent & supplementary prescribing. 7 Influences on, & psychology of prescribing. 8 Prescribing in a team context