Aimed at early-career pharmacists working with paediatric patients, or those interested in expanding their knowledge in paediatrics - the Introduction to paediatrics online learning course will cover child safety, ethical considerations, and medication safety in paediatric patients.
Pharmacy practice topics including immunisation, common paediatric hospital presentations such as undifferentiated fever, common infections, respiratory illness, seizures, mental health and surgical considerations in paediatric patients. It is suitable for those working with paediatric patients in any setting.
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This online learning course is designed to support a foundation level knowledge and skills within the maternity or neonatal space.
Incorporating didactic learning, participants will explore the principles and challenges of medication management in pregnancy, lactation and neonatal medicine, and the role of the pharmacist within the multidisciplinary team. They will also have the opportunity to work through a series of case studies where these principles will be applied practically. Additionally, participants will hear first-hand account from pharmacists working within the specialty in a range of settings, and learn from the experience of setting up an obstetric clinical pharmacy service.
Aimed at early-career pharmacists, those new to working in the specialty of Women's and Newborn Health in a range of settings, or pharmacists interested in expanding their knowledge in this field.
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This 7-part, self-paced online learning course will guide you through key functions to optimise your use of Excel in practice.
A real-life pharmacy-based Excel data set is used throughout the course. The course begins with an overview of digital tools commonly accessible to and used by pharmacy staff, before stepping you through Excel functions, set up, data analysis tools and formulas. You’ll cover tips and tricks for cleaning your data before moving onto presenting your data, optimised for data analysis.
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Clinical governance is the systematic approach to delivering, maintaining, and improving the quality and safety of patient care within health service organisations. It ensures that everyone is accountable to patients and the community for the safe, effective, high quality and continuously improving delivery of health services.
Clinical governance is essential for ensuring patient safety and wellbeing and meeting the ever-changing demands of the health care landscape. Pharmacists play an integral role in clinical governance through their unique understanding of medication management and quality use of medicines, embedded into daily practice or applied through specific clinical governance roles.
The AdPha Clinical governance training course is designed for pharmacists who are new to or entering practice within health service organisations, such as public or private hospitals, large healthcare service providers, or residential aged care facilities.
Over eight self-directed learning modules, the SHPA Clinical governance training course covers:
- An introduction to clinical governance
- Safety and quality culture
- Systems and processes for clinical governance
- Clinical governance framework, policies and procedures
- Risk management
- Quality improvement measures
- How pharmacists contribute to clinical governance
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Through stakeholder engagement, the NSW Office for Health and Medical Research identified the need to develop a Pharmaceuticals Preparation Policy, associated procedures and training frameworks to improve the advanced therapeutics supply chain as clinicians, researchers and industry are increasingly demanding these products. AdPha developed a dedicated education package in partnership with the Ministry of Health to support the understanding and implementation of the Pharmaceuticals Preparation Policy. The Preparation of pharmaceutical and advanced therapeutic products governance education package is designed to meet the needs of all staff involved in the application of the Policy Directive in practice.
Advanced therapeutic products are rapidly becoming available and the number and complexity of products required to be prepared by pharmacists in NSW public health facilities will see a substantial increase. The Policy Directive for Preparation of pharmaceuticals and advanced therapeutic products provides guidance to all Directors of Pharmacy, Directors of Nursing and Midwifery, Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy (BMT/CT) Laboratory Medical Directors, Directors of Clinical Governance, NSW Health Pathology and all relevant staff on preparing aseptically and non-aseptically prepared products to standards that are of a high quality, are safe, and are made in compliance with the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (Cth), Poisons and Therapeutics Goods Act 1966 (NSW), National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992 (Cth), Gene Technology Act 2000 (Cth), and comply with professional practice and other standards.
The Preparation of pharmaceutical and advanced therapeutic products governance education package comprises 6hrs of accredited content across 13 topics.
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Intravenous fluids are commonly used in patient care during hospitalisation. This online learning course will cover electrolytes and body fluids, and the foundational principles of electrolyte and fluid replacement.
Topics include: sodium, calcium, potassium, phosphate and magnesium electrolyte management and dose calculations, interpretating associated laboratory results, maintenance hydration and fluid resuscitation, administration and compatibility.
Self-guided case study sessions provide opportunity to apply learnings to real-world case examples.
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