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PRoFESSIoNAl SERvICES PHARMACIST
Professional services pharmacists do not require additional qualifications but may undertake continuing professional education to expand their knowledge and skills to provide quality service for better patient health outcomes. It is recommended that pharmacists be familiar with the provision
and remuneration of funded services such as MedsCheck and Diabetes MedsCheck through the Community Pharmacy Agreements (CPA) or other services that provide extra income streams or loyalties for the pharmacy.
Examples of CPA funded services:
Pharmacy Practice Incentives (PPI)
• Dose Administration Aids (DAAs)
• Clinical interventions
• Primary healthcare screening and
risk assessment and/or disease state management services
‐ Cardiovascular disease
‐ Diabetes
‐ Health promotion
‐ Mental health conditions
‐ Respiratory
• Community services support
‐ National Diabetes Services Scheme
(NDSS) Access Point
‐ Needle and Syringe Programs
‐ Opioid Substitution Programs
‐ Pharmacy Delivery Service
‐ Return of Unwanted Medicines (RUM)
Medication Management Initiatives
• MedsCheck
• Diabetes MedsCheck
Examples of non-CPA funded services
• International normalised ratio (INR) testing
• Mobility and continence aids
• Sleep apnoea
• Weight management
learning options
Continuing professional development (CPD) is important in acquiring and maintaining competence in professional service design and implementation. CPD is available from a range of health related bodies including the PSA, PGA, government bodies and support organisations. Access to educational material can be via print, online, webinars (live and recorded), workshops, lectures, seminars and conferences.
ADvANCED PRACTICE PHARMACIST
Pharmacy as a profession is maturing in its
role in delivering healthcare and facilitating pharmacists to strive for excellence in all that they do. The credential of advanced practice pharmacist recognises those pharmacists whose practice is so significantly different from that achieved at initial registration that it warrants recognition by professional peers and the public of the expertise of the practitioner and the education, training, and experience from which that capability was derived.
Advanced practice is more about the impact of a pharmacist’s practice and the associated contribution to healthcare that defines someone as an advanced practitioner. Advanced practice may be recognised in any of the environments that pharmacists practise in; community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, independent medicines management, education, research, policy and advocacy, regulatory affairs. Within these environments, a pharmacist may
have areas of expert professional practice such as oncology pharmacy, leadership and management, diabetes, or medication management review (MMR).
Advanced practice is not defined by the professional service that a pharmacist delivers. It recognises the continuum of a pharmacist’s career and a culture of life-long learning, so that those pharmacists who shape and drive the development of the profession through strategic development and leadership are recognised for the experts that they are. For example, whilst a medicines management pharmacist does have skills over and above that at initial registration, an advanced practitioner would be one that is considered an expert in this area by their peers- fellow MMR pharmacists... an individual that shapes
the national agenda and policy debate
for medicines management through engagement not just within the profession, but external to the profession.
The Australian Pharmacy Council has been endorsed by the organisations that represent the pharmacy profession in Australia, through the APPFSC as the independent entity being responsible and accountable for the credentialing of advance practitioners.
Recommended education courses
• Asthma Educators Course
• Certificate IV in Small Business Management • Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
• Course in Conduct Immunisation
Services within a Community Pharmacy
Environment
• Diploma of Management
• Ethics and Dispensing in Pharmacy Practice • Graduate Certificate in Applied Pharmacy
Practice
• Graduate Certificate in Diabetes Education
and Management
• Graduate Diploma in Public Health
• Graduate Diploma of Applied Pharmacy
Practice
• Manage the delivery and administration of
injections and immunisations
• Master of Clinical Pharmacy
• Medication Management Review
• Professional Compounding Chemists of
Australia (PCCA) training courses
• Sleep apnoea and continuous positive
airway pressure training
• Graduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice • Graduate Certificate in Applied Pharmacy
Practice
For additional information on training courses please refer to Further study opportunities on page 40 of this Guide.
FoR MoRE INFoRMATIoN
5th Community Pharmacy Agreement (5CPA)
5cpa.com.au
Allied Health Professionals Australia (AHPA)
cdm.ahpa.com.au
Pharmacists in General Practice Clinics, Australian Pharmacist, January 2014 cover story, A future so bright you will have to wear shades, PSA
Pharmacy Board of Australia – Registration Standards www.pharmacyboard.gov.au/ Registration-Standards
Advanced Practice Pharmacists
Contact the Assistant Director of Credentialing at the Australian Pharmacy Council, Andrew Matthews
E: andrew.matthews@pharmacycouncil.org.au P: 02 6262 9628
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