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Foundations of Pharmacy Practice (4)

Course Description: This course is designed to provide students with the foundational knowledge and essential skills in pharmaceutical care, interdisciplinary collaboration, and patient safety. The course covers the fundamental concepts of pharmaceutical care practice, including identifying drug therapy problems, collecting and assessing patient data, developing individualized pharmaceutical care plans, implementing, monitoring, and documenting them. The course emphasizes effective communication with patients and healthcare team members, interdisciplinary collaboration strategies, and the application of patient safety principles. Topics include health promotion and wellness, reengineering pharmacy practice, analyzing root causes of medical errors, and the infrastructure required to support pharmaceutical care delivery. Through case discussions and practical exercises, students will learn to work collaboratively within healthcare teams to deliver patient-centered, empathetic, and ethically-grounded care.

Credits: 2

Previous Requirements: 218 PHP

Objectives of the course :

This course aims to provide students with the following:
Knowledge and skills necessary to apply pharmaceutical care concepts and processes.
2. Communication skills necessary for working within a healthcare team.
3. Patient safety knowledge and practices.

Course outputs :

Knowledge and understanding:
1.1 Description of the concept of pharmaceutical care practice.
1.2 Identify effective collaboration and communication strategies among different disciplines.
1.3 Identify different types of patient safety incidents.
Skills:
2.1 Gathering and evaluating the patient's medical information.
2.2 Identify actual and potential drug therapy problems for a specific patient.
2.3 Develop, implement, monitor, and document a specific pharmaceutical care plan for a given patient case.
2.4 Work as part of a healthcare team to provide patient-centered care.
2.5 Effective communication with patients regarding the pharmaceutical care plan.
2.6 Effectively communicating with healthcare professionals about the pharmaceutical care plan.
2.7 Using different causal theories and models to analyze patient safety incidents. Values, Autonomy, and Responsibility
Values, autonomy and responsibility:
3.1 Identifying the different research methods used to define and standardize various patient safety incidents.
3.2 Identify actual and potential drug therapy problems for a specific patient.
3.3 Recognize collaboration and effective communication strategies across different disciplines.
3.4 Show empathy, professionalism, and ethical, social, and cultural awareness when discussing patient cases.

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Last updated: 2026-05-14