Lecture 2 Flashcards
Profession
- extensive specialised training
- specialised knowledge and skills
- Code of Ethics
- Licensing and restrictions
- Autonomy and self-regulation
- identify and affiliate with the group
5E’s of Professionalism
- Education
- Ethics
- Experience
- Examination
- Entity
Education
format qualifications or certification and CPD expectations
Ethics
Professional and ethical standards
Expectations of practice and conduct
Experience
Personal capabilities and expectations
Entity
A body to oversee professional entry, professional standards and compliance expectations on behalf of the public
Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003
HPCA ACT 2003
- framework of regulation to protect public
- life long competence of health practitioners to protect public
Definition of HPCA Act 2003
- what is a restricted profession
- scopes of practise and restricted activities
- qualifications for each scope
Pharmacy Council
- the regulator
- registers pharmacists
- set the standards
- deal with breaches of the standards and fitness to practise
The regulator
established under the HPCA Act
Standards
- codes of Ethics 2018
- Competence Standards
Standards and fitness to practise
- Conduct
- Competence
- Health
Pharmaceutical Society
The representative of pharmacy
- Lobbies government
- Works with health funders
- Provides pre-reg training programmes
- Provides recertification programme (CPD)
Code of Ethics 2018
- Health and wellbeing of patients first priority
- Practise and promote patient-centred care
- Professional judgement in the interests of patients and wider community
- Honesty and integrity
- Practise under conditions which uphold the professional independence, judgement and integrity of themselves and others
- Commitment to continual professional and personal development to enhance pharmacy practice
- Work collaboratively for patient-centred and optimise results
Competence Standards (2015)
- the habitual practice for the benefit of the individual and community
- lifelong series of doing and reflecting and focuses on the behaviours