Advanced Pharmacy Practice

This module will allow you to apply the principles of medicines optimisation in the acute and chronic management of patients. You'll be able to arrive at decisions based on different therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular disease and respiratory disorders.

You'll demonstrate your skills in finding literature and critically evaluating the evidence. You'll be encouraged to consider the meaning and reality of evidence based medicine. You'll also explore the political and social influences on medicine choices.

You'll look at service models and provision, gaining an appreciation and understanding of the political drivers that underpin healthcare policy as well as the importance of maximising staff resources and skills to provide more effective and efficient patient care. You'll also gain advanced skills in diagnosis, physical examination and patient management in order to provide a more comprehensive level of care in the acute and emergency care setting, as well as being able to make more informed decisions.

You'll get the opportunity to discuss your project with your supervisor, and utilise the skills you have gained in the Research Methods module to conduct an individual and independent piece of pharmacy practice research.

Explore general aspects of the research process before you develop and conduct your independent project. Following this, you will talk with your allocated supervisor and develop the skills you need to conduct an individual and independent piece of pharmacy practice research, based on your own research project design.

The module prepares you as a pharmacist to practice as Independent Prescribers according to standards as stipulated by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC). The module will develop your knowledge in consultation, decision making, assessment and review and explore problems and issues in the context of prescribing.

You'll get an overview of public health and the contribution that pharmacists (and others) can make to deliver public health interventions. You will explore disease in public health, determinants of health, public health policies, pharmaceutical needs assessments, and Pharmacoeconomics.

An introduction to Neurology, Oncology and Antimicrobials. You'll explore the interpretation of clinical investigations used to inform clinical decisions and care planning, evidence based principles of medicines optimisation, the role of health and social care services, and communication with healthcare professionals and patients on decision making.

This module introduces you to laws associated with mental health provision as well as classification of mental disorders and the mental state exam. The base principles involved in therapeutic management of mental disorders will be re-enforced to allow you to apply the principles of pharmaceutical care associated with a variety of disorders.

You'll explore key issues of research, such as developing research questions and hypotheses, ethics and governance, quantitative and qualitative research design, conduct and analysis, mixed methods research (including rationale and typologies of designs), validity and reliability in research, and developing a research proposal.

The aim of this module is to enable you to explore in depth the current evidence and approaches in the management of patients with comorbidities and complex care needs.