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Fully online, flexible and self-directed – this program will enable registered pharmacists to diversify and develop advanced skills for a range of advanced practice roles emerging in community and hospital settings.The program focuses on developing in-depth knowledge of Pharmacotherapeutics and capability to enhance best practice pharmacy. The program will support pharmacists conducting medication reviews. The program will enhance the pharmacist’s role as a member of the health care team. It will develop their ability to communicate effectively with other health professionals and patients. It is a first step in the pathway towards a Research Higher Degree.

Continue to develop your clinical pharmacy and research skills. Explore medication management for a wide range of illnesses, from cardiovascular disease to psychiatric disorders. Upon completion, those interested can proceed into the Graduate Diploma.

Graduate Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy

The Graduate Certificate in Therapeutic Medication Management is designed for experienced Registered Nurses or Registered Midwives looking to develop knowledge and enhanced practical skills in therapeutic medication management. Using an ‘across the life span’ approach, concepts such as prescribing, administering, monitoring, and evaluating medications in accordance with Commonwealth and State legislation and policy will be explored.You will also gain an understanding of the differences between pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics, how medications are absorbed, distributed, and metabolised, and learn to develop individual patient medication management plans.Your studies will incorporate the principles of medication management from neonatal, paediatrics through to the older persons, and includes cultural and indigenous considerations of medication use and prescribing.

If you’re a registered nurse and you’d like to deepen your knowledge about medication management, then this is the course for you. Explore how the body reacts to different drugs. Learn how to develop individualised medication plans for patients in your specialty area.

Graduate Certificate in Therapeutic Medication Management

This program provides students with knowledge, skills and resources to practise effectively as a clinical pharmacy practitioner involved in the quality use of medicines and pharmaceutical care. These skills include the capacity to individualise, review and monitor a patient&#39;s medication regimen; demonstrate effective communication skills in clinical and non-clinical scenarios; critically appraise medical and pharmaceutical literature, recognise and describe social issues relating to medicine use.Regular updates of course content integrate emerging clinical evidence and current controversies. A major strength of the program is the emphasis on developing clinical practice and the integration of evidence based medicine.

Advance your capability within clinical pharmacy practice. You’ll work on the skills that provide positive patient outcomes. Explore where pharmacy sits in today’s complex health system. Help patients manage their medicine through illness and life stages.

Food as Medicine

Drugs in Society

Complementary Medicines in Contemporary Society

Sport Doping, Performance Enhancing Drugs and their Detection

This fully online subject provides students with the knowledge and skills to improve medication safety. The subject introduces students to medication-related problems, along with current practices to reduce these problems in Australian health care. It is contextualised to align with the Australian response to the global challenge of reducing medication-related harm. This subject equips students to play an important role within a model of collaborative interprofessional teamwork.

Quality Use of Medicines and Medicines Safety in Vulnerable Populations

TAS-CSA726 is a self-directed, fully online subject, that explores a variety of disease states and their management, using a series of patient cases linked to assignment-based questions, to enable the student to enhance their knowledge in the area of clinical pharmacy and pharmaceutical care.The subject covers the medication management and clinical pharmacy issues in psychiatric and neurological disorders.

Advanced Pharmacotherapeutics in Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders

TAS-CSA725 is a self-directed, fully online subject, that explores a variety of disease states and their management, using a series of patient cases linked to assignment-based questions, to enable the student to enhance their knowledge in the area of clinical pharmacy and pharmaceutical care.This subject covers the medication management and clinical pharmacy issues in endocrinology, rheumatology and oncology supportive care.

Advanced Pharmacotherapeutics in Endocrinology, Rheumatology and Oncology Care

TAS-CSA724 is a self-directed, fully online subject, that explores a variety of disease states and their management, using a series of patient cases linked to assignment-based questions, to enable the student to enhance their knowledge in the area of clinical pharmacy and pharmaceutical care.This subject covers the medication management and clinical pharmacy issues in infectious diseases.

Advanced Pharmacotherapeutics in Infectious Diseases

TAS-CSA723 is a self-directed, fully online subject, that explores a variety of disease states and their management, using a series of patient cases linked to assignment-based questions, to enable the student to enhance their knowledge in the area of clinical pharmacy and pharmaceutical care.This subject covers the medication management and clinical pharmacy issues in respiratory and renal diseases.

Advanced Pharmacotherapeutics in Respiratory and Renal Diseases

TAS-CSA722 is a self-directed, fully online subject, that explores a variety of disease states and their management, using a series of patient cases linked to assignment-based questions, to enable the student to enhance their knowledge in clinical pharmacy and pharmaceutical care.This subject covers the medication management and clinical pharmacy issues in cardiovascular diseases.

Advanced Pharmacotherapeutics in Cardiovascular Diseases

TAS-CSA721 is a self-directed, fully on-line introductory subject, that explores a variety of disease states and their management, using patient cases to enable students to enhance their knowledge in clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice. This subject introduces important concepts that students can apply to develop skills in evidence-based medicine, asking and answering well-articulated clinical questions, and critical review of research literature. Students will develop their skills in evidence-based practice components such as framing an answerable research question and search strategies for a patient&#39;s unique circumstances. Student will use medical databases, learn how to identify high-quality evidence. The skills developed in this subject enhance independent clinical decision-making.

Introduction to Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Practice

Students undertaking this subject are provided with opportunities to develop their knowledge and skills to identify the clinical and pharmacological perspectives of therapeutic medication management for non-medical prescribers, including the ethical, social, and political implications for advanced practice. The context is presented with an emphasis on integrating knowledge gained from successfully completing the course to develop individualised patient medication management plans and includes de-prescribing considerations as appropriate.

Clinical Perspectives of Therapeutic Medication Management

This subject offers students the opportunity to develop their knowledge and skills to identify the effects of medications on the body’s physiological, biochemical, and pathophysiological processes. Key pharmacological characteristics of drug classes and specific nuances of individual drugs across the life span will be explored to optimise medication therapeutic effects and minimise adverse events. Upon completion of this subject students will be expected to use clinical reasoning and problem-solving skills to prescribe, administer, monitor, and evaluate medications in accordance with commonwealth and state legislation and policy.

Pharmacological Perspectives of Therapeutic Medication Management

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