Simulated Practices in Pharmacy II

Base Knowledge

General pathology.

Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics.

Pharmacology I and II

Pharmacotherapy I and II

Teaching Methodologies

The classes are using active and participatory methodologies, using when necessary the questioning,

expository and demonstrative methods.

In practical classes technical skills development, such as are used the technique of roleplaying for training interpersonal skills, group dynamics exercises, and simulation of practices and techniques.

Case studies are presented, and then the students will be exposed to simulated dispensing medication, which

will put into practice patient counseling.

The teaching materials used are mainly exposed slides using audiovisual media (or equivalent method), texts

and articles with a view to a more interactive class, as well as the encouragement of literature, out of the class. Using autoscopy techniques.

Learning Results

Demonstrate effective skills in communicating health information, advice and professional opinion to users/clients, colleagues or other health professionals;

Demonstrate counseling skills in special situations and with populations with specific characteristics (chronic illnesses, polymedicated elderly, children, dementia, alzheimers, AIDS, others).

Identify signs and symptoms of the most prevalent pathologies in our social context;

Properly advise and inform the patient when requesting the purchase from mandatory medical prescription or no mandatory medical prescription;

Analyze the patient’s therapy in the context of the clinical and physiological situation;

Intervene in the safe and rational use of medication as a means of promoting public health.

Program

Dispensing and Advice of MNSRM_EF – Protocols.

Other existing protocols in the Community Pharmacy

Counseling in special situations: chronically ill, polymedicated elderly, children, other situations

Identification, characterization and rules for dispensing medical prescriptions.

Pharmaceutical Services: Programs for adherence to therapy, analysis of the pharmacotherapeutic profile and reconciliation of therapy and individualized preparation of medications, Measurement of Biochemical and Anthropometric Parameters, Rapid Tests (“Point of Care”), Promotion of campaigns and health literacy programs, disease prevention and the promotion of healthy lifestyles, among others

Computer System;

Interactions and decision support platforms.

Pharmacovigilance

Drug distribution systems in the hospital context

Unit dose system; medication individualization

Realization of Practical Cases.

Curricular Unit Teachers

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

Mandatory bibliography:

Terapêutica medicamentosa e suas bases farmacológicas: manual de farmacologia e farmacoterapia/Serafim
Guimarães, Daniel Moura, Patrício Silva Porto Editora, 2014 ISBN 978-972-0-01794
Comunicação em Saúde e Processo de Mudança. Luís Morais. Escolar Editora.2013. ISBN: 9789725923795
Aguiar, A. H. (2004). “A Farmácia e a Comunicação”. AJE – Sociedade Editorial, Lda. Lisboa.
Blenkinsopp, Alison; Paxton, Paul; Blenkinsopp, John (2009) – “Symptoms in the Pharmacy: A guide to the
Management”. Wiley – Blackwell;ISBN-140518079X .
Communication skills in pharmacy pratice, 5th Ed; Beardsley, R.; Kimberlin,C.; Tindall,W.,2003
Stefanie P. Ferreri et al. Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-Care, 16th Edition, Daniel L. Krinsky

Secondary bibliography:

INFARMED- Serviços online:https://www.infarmed.pt/
Community Pharmacy Handbook, Jon Waterfield, Pharmaceutical Press,2008
Christine Thorp (2008) – “Pharmacology for the Health Care Professions”. Publisher: Wiley – Blackwell
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