Overview
This unit will be divided into two main components: pharmacotherapeutics and anaesthesia specific to podiatry practice. In pharmacotherapeutics the student will gain understanding of S2, S3, S4 and S8 medicines administered in common diseases seen in podiatry practice and learn further of their role in management of disease. In anaesthesia, the student will gain advanced knowledge of anaesthetics pertinent to podiatry practice. Topics covered will include pre-surgical history and physical assessment, informed consent, charting, maximum safe dose, and injection instrumentation. Students will also begin to practice injection technique in a simulated setting.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisite: PODI13007 Clinical Practice 2 - and Corequisite: PODI13011 Clinical Practice 3
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2017
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student Feedback - Have Your Say Staff Self Reflection
It might be of more benefit having advanced pharmacology being offered sooner after completion of the first general pharmacology subject.
Whilst this would be ideal, it is difficult to move the course any earlier as it is aligned to run before the surgery course, which is a level 4 course. Students, however have opportunity to put into practice their base knowledge of pharmacology taught in the earlier years during clinical placements throughout the program.
Feedback from Student Feedback - Have Your Say
Great course. Mostly relevant material. I loved the weekly tutorials.
Weekly tutorials will continue to be included in future course deliveries to help students gain a deep understanding of the weekly topics and to supplement student learning.
- Summarise the major classes of therapeutic drugs that affect the primary systems of the body.
- Analyse the barriers to suitable pharmacotherapy.
- Evaluate S2, S3, S4 and S8 medicines prescribed and administered for the treatment of disease states encountered in the scope of podiatry practice.
- Describe the mechanisms of drug action and the potential for drug to drug interactions.
- Examine legal, ethical and professional responsibilities associated with prescription and administration of medications within podiatry.
- Students will use the basic pharmacology of anaesthetic drugs as taught previously.
- Develop an anaesthetic plan based on a physical examination that includes: appropriate drug selection; correct dose calculation; appropriate method of drug administration; and other supportive care.
- Integrate an evidence based approach in pharmacological practice within podiatry.
Per NPC1303
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 - Practical and Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||
| 3 - Examination - 50% | ||||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Practical and Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Examination - 50% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
Australian Medicines Handbook 2015
1st edition (2015)
Authors: AMH
Australian Medicines
Australia
ISBN: 9780987550156
Binding: Hardcover
Pharmacology for Health Professionals
4th edition (2014)
Authors: Bryant & Knights
Mosby Australia
Australia
ISBN: 9780729541701
Binding: Hardcover
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 6th Edition (APA 6th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
katrina.reynolds@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Revision of Pharmacodynamics.
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Revision of Pharmacokinetics.
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Drugs and poisons legislation in the States and Territories of Australia. Discussion of drugs able to be administered & prescribed by suitably qualified podiatrists including ethical and professional responsibilities.
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Detailed pharmacology of local anaesthetic agents and related-emergency (anaphylactic reactions) drugs.
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Theoretical and practical basis of an anaesthetic plan including review of local anaesthetic types, patient factors for consideration, and potential interaction with other medicines.
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Review of neuro-anatomy of the foot and ankle; digital nerve block procedures and the theory of giving safe injections.
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Safe injection administration clinical skills.
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Detailed pharmacology of anti-mycotic agents.
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Detailed pharmacology of anti-inflammatory and pain management agents.
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Detailed pharmacology of anti-histamines.
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Detailed pharmacology of anti-anxiety drugs.
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Attendance: As per the University’s recommendation that "All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes,” students should also be aware that there is clear evidence to show that attendance rates are directly related to academic progress. It is therefore in your best interest and strongly recommended in the Bachelor of Podiatry Practice (Honours) course, that you attend all scheduled learning activities to support your learning. Attendance will be recorded.
Uniform: In all practical classes, students are required to wear the nominated uniform. Students must purchase their uniform from the bookshop. This uniform is separate to the mandatory clinical uniform. Please refer to the Podiatry Course Handbook for further detail.
1 Practical and Written Assessment
This assessment is an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE). There will be four (4) stations each designed to assess your knowledge and skills acquired during this course. There will be a combination of written answer and observer assessed stations. Further detail for this assessment task will be made available via the course Moodle site during term.
Coordinated across campus(es) - date to be advised during term.
Results will be released approximately 3 weeks after the close of the assessment.
The assessment details for this assessment task will be made available during the term in Moodle.
- Summarise the major classes of therapeutic drugs that affect the primary systems of the body.
- Analyse the barriers to suitable pharmacotherapy.
- Evaluate S2, S3, S4 and S8 medicines prescribed and administered for the treatment of disease states encountered in the scope of podiatry practice.
- Describe the mechanisms of drug action and the potential for drug to drug interactions.
- Examine legal, ethical and professional responsibilities associated with prescription and administration of medications within podiatry.
- Students will use the basic pharmacology of anaesthetic drugs as taught previously.
- Develop an anaesthetic plan based on a physical examination that includes: appropriate drug selection; correct dose calculation; appropriate method of drug administration; and other supportive care.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Written Assessment
Students will be required to submit a written assessment in the form of an essay pertinent to the use of advanced pharmacology in podiatry practice. This assessment task will allow an in-depth exploration of a particular podiatric condition of choice concerning pharmacological management using multiple sources of evidence. Further details regarding this assessment task will be provided in Moodle in the early weeks of the term.
Week 7 Friday (1 Sept 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 10 Friday (22 Sept 2017)
Further details regarding this assessment task will be provided in the early weeks of the term. The marking guide (rubric) and feedback sheet will be made available under the 'Assessment' tab in Moodle.
Note: APA referencing system is used for all written assessments. In-text citations are counted as part of the word count for assessment purposes. Penalties will be applied where those strict word limits are exceeded (+/- 10%). If the assessment item exceeds 10%, the content will not be assessed by the examiner (excludes tables, appendices and references where applicable). If you are late submitting your assignment – each day incurs a 5% penalty.
- Analyse the barriers to suitable pharmacotherapy.
- Examine legal, ethical and professional responsibilities associated with prescription and administration of medications within podiatry.
- Integrate an evidence based approach in pharmacological practice within podiatry.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
Examination
Dictionary - non-electronic, concise, direct translation only (dictionary must not contain any notes or comments).
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