Innovation in Medicine Safety unit (CSA328)

Introduction

Innovation in Medicine Safety will help you identify and analyse medication-safety issues encountered in a variety of clinical settings. 

You will initially learn and appraise existing issues and interventions that attempt to improve the Quality Use of Medicines or address medication-safety issues. You will then create your own service and communicate the concept verbally. From this, you will devise ideas to overcome these issues and develop evidence-based solutions that could be implemented in the real world.

Particular emphasis is placed on the combined skills of practice-based mitigation of medication-safety risks, while using research skills and knowledge gained in CSA288 Evidence-Based Health Care and CSA321 Clinical Pharmacy Research, to intervene in identified problematic areas in an evidence-based manner.

Summary

Unit name	Innovation in Medicine Safety
Unit code	CSA328
Credit points	12.5
College/School	Health School of Pharmacy and Pharmacology
Discipline	Pharmacy
Coordinator	Doctor Woldesellassie Bezabhe
Available as an elective?	No
Delivered By	University of Tasmania
Level	Advanced

Availability

Specific information on 2027 unit availability will be available in August

Learning Outcomes

• Identify and explain factors involved in medication safety.
• Apply research skills and evidence-based decision making to medication safety scenarios, using appropriate resources.
• Reflect on the role of pharmacists in reducing and resolving medication safety issues in clinical practice.

Fee Information

2027 fee information will be available in August.

Requisites

Prerequisites

CSA357

Concurrent Prerequisites

CSA321

Teaching

Teaching Pattern	Independent Learning (online modules and self directed learning) – 7hrs per week Workshop 3hrs weekly (7 weeks) Presentation Assessment 4hrs 2 x1hr tests
Assessment	Individual written assessment 1 (30%)|Individual written assessment 2 (30%)|Pitch (40%)
Timetable	View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable

Textbooks

Required	Required reading materials will be provided by your Unit Coordinator.
Recommended	Recommended reading material will be provided by your Unit Coordinator via the Reading List link in MyLO or the the unit Reading List on the University Library website.

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