Assignment Brief
| Qualification | Pearson BTEC Level 3 Diploma in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians |
| Unit number and title | Unit 16: Actions and Uses of Medicines |
| Learning Outcomes | Learning Outcome 3: Understand the use of standard pharmacy resources to research pharmaceutical queries |
| Assignment title | Understand the use of standard pharmacy resources to research pharmaceutical queries |
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| Hand in deadline | No more than four weeks following the handout date. |
| Vocational Scenario or Context | You are working as a Registered Pharmacy Technician in a local GP practice, as part of your role you must provide advice and information to other healthcare professionals. Your manager has asked you to create a training package for the practice so that healthcare professionals and other trainee pharmacy technicians can use for reference. This Learning Outcome 3 is Task 3 of 3 tasks for Unit 16. |
| Task 3 | A pharmacy professional will make use of many standard pharmacy resources to research pharmaceutical queries to ensure that responses are accurate and appropriate for the customer be that a patient or another Health Care Professional. For your final resource, your line manager wants you to produce a resources compendium in the format of your choice (e.g. booklet, presentation and notes, technical information poster etc.) which evaluates the suitability of different sources of pharmaceutical information used to answer pharmaceutical queries within the workplace. This resource will be accompanied by a written report which explains the importance of evidence-based practice for pharmacy professionals. Specific detail is provided below and all aspects of the guidance must be addressed. The suitability of different sources of pharmaceutical information for pharmaceutical queries The resources compendium will need to include an evaluation of information found in pharmaceutical texts such as the: British National Formulary, Martindale, British Pharmacopeia, Pharmaceutical Codex, Pharmaceutical Journal, Medical journals etc. Online resources e.g. eBNF, Micromedex, Medline etc. For each resource named you must include the suitability, advantages and limitations in using the resource to answer specific examples of pharmaceutical queries. The importance of evidence-based practice for pharmacy professionals Your report must also provide a detailed explanation of the likely impacts of the use of evidence-based practice by pharmacy professionals, giving reasons, examples and/or evidence to support the points made and coming to a conclusion as to how important evidence-based practice is for pharmacy professionals. | ||
| Checklist of evidence required | Resources compendium in chosen format. (e.g. booklet, presentation and notes, technical information poster etc.)Report on the suitability of the resource to answer specific pharmaceutical queries and explanation of importance of evidence-based practice. | ||
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| Unit/Criteria reference | To achieve the criteria, you must show that you are able to: | ||
| 3.1 | Evaluate the suitability of different sources of pharmaceutical information for pharmaceutical queries. | ||
| 3.2 | Explain the importance of evidence-based practice for pharmacy professionals. | ||
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| Task 3: Resources compendium in chosen format. (e.g. booklet, presentation and notes, technical information poster etc.)Report on the suitability of the resource to answer specific pharmaceutical queries and explanation of importance of evidence-based practice. |
| Sources of information |
| Textbooks Bennett P, Brown M – Clinical Pharmacology,12th edition (Elsevier, 2018) ISBN 9780702073281 Blenkinsopp A, Blenkinsopp J, Duerden M – Symptoms in the Pharmacy: A Guide to the Management of Common Illnesses, 8th edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018) ISBN 9781119317968 Dodds L (editor) – Drugs in Use: Case Studies for Pharmacists and Prescribers, 5th edition (Pharmaceutical Press, 2013) ISBN 9780857110916 Dorling Kindersley – BMA New Guide to Medicines and Drugs, 10th edition (Dorling Kindersley, 2018) ISBN 9780241317617 Harman R and Mason P (editors) – Handbook of Pharmacy Healthcare, 2nd edition (Pharmaceutical Press, 2002) ISBN 9780853695073 McGavock H – How Drugs Work, 4th edition (CRC Press, 2015) ISBN 9781785230776 Nathan A – Non-Prescription Medicines, 4th edition (Pharmaceutical Press, 2010) ISBN 9780853698869 Neal M – Medical Pharmacology at a Glance, 8th edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015) ISBN 9781118902400 Rang H, Dale M, Ritter J, Flower R et al – Rang & Dale’s Pharmacology, 9th edition (Elsevier, 2019) ISBN 9780702074486 Stringer J – Basic Concepts in Pharmacology: What You Need to Know for Each Drug Class, 5th edition (McGraw-Hill, 2017) ISBN 9781259861079 Walker R, Whittlesea C – Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 6th edition (Elsevier, 2018) ISBN 9780702070129 Wecker L – Brody’s Human Pharmacology: Mechanism-Based Therapeutics, 6th edition (Elsevier, 2018) ISBN 9780323476522 Willihnganz M, Gurevitz S, Clayton B – Clayton’s Basic Pharmacology for Nurses, 18th edition (Mosby, 2019) ISBN 9780323554732 Journals MIMS (Monthly Index of Medical Specialities) (Haymarket Group, published monthly) NICE Journals and databases – www.nice.org.uk/about/what-we-do/evidence-services/journals-and-databases Websites www.bnf.nice.org.uk/ BNF Online http://broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/ themes/controversies/thalidomide Background to the need for pharmacovigilance www.england.nhs.uk/medicines/medicines-optimisation/ NHS England Medicines Optimisation https://www.gov.uk/guidance/implementing-the-falsified-medicines-directive-safety-features Information about the Falsified Medicines Directive www.medicines.org.uk/emc Electronic Medicines Compendium www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng5/chapter/Introduction NICE Medicines Optimisation www.rpharms.com/Portals/0/RPS%20document %20library/Open%20access/Policy/ helping-patients-make-the-most-of-their-medicines.pdf RPSGB Medicines Optimisation: Good Practice Guidance https://yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/the-yellow-card-scheme/ The MHRA’s Yellow Card Scheme |
