Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the authors
Introduction
Section 1 - Pre-registration trainees
Chapter 1 - Expectations of the pre-registration placement
What is clinical pharmacy and where does it happen?
Reference
Chapter 2 - Induction: getting to know your workplace and your team
Chapter 3 - The pre-reg team -- team dynamics
You, the pre-regs and the working team
What makes a team?
Group dynamics and the pre-reg year
Reference
Chapter 4 - Your tutor: developing that special relationship
Getting to know your tutor
Managing the boss
What can go wrong?
Chapter 5 - Making the transition from student to professional: how to get through the year
Reference
Section 2 -
A guide to rotations
Chapter 6 -
First rotation
Chapter 7 -
Ward-based pharmacy
References
Chapter 8 -
Patient services
Chapter 9 -
Medicines information
The first few days
Answering enquiries
Law and ethics
Chapter 10 -
Technical services
Sterile and non‐sterile products
Quality assurance and quality control
Chapter 11 -
Community pharmacy
Finding a suitable placement
Preparing for the placement
Working in the community
Responding to symptoms
Dispensing
References
Chapter 12 -
Pharmacy in the wider healthcare environment
Primary care trusts
Prison pharmacy
Section 3 -
Assessment and feedback
Chapter 13 - Assessment and feedback: how to get through these
Assessment in the dispensary
Assessment on the wards
Assessment in MI
Assessment in technical services
Chapter 14 -
Getting signed off: how do you know you are there?
End‐of‐rotation reviews
RPSGB progress reviews
Review at 13 weeks
Review at 26 weeks
Review at 39 weeks
Final progress review
Section 4 -
Finding your first real job
Chapter 15 -
Your first job as a hospital pharmacist
Finding the right job
How to get through the interview
Your first job
Additional interview top tips
Preparation for the interview
Before the interview
During the interview
After the interview
Section 5 -
Preparing for the registration exam
Chapter 16 - Preparing for the registration exam
How much to revise, when to revise, what to revise?
Reference texts
British National Formulary
Medicines, Ethics and Practice Guide
Drug Tariff
How will you feel leading up to the exam?
Closed Book
Exam technique
Practicalities
Security issues
Open book/calculations
Exam technique
Practicalities
Revision plans
Drawing from past pre‐regs' experiences
Calculations and the anxieties associated with this
Some top tips for calculations
The examination
Calculations
Open book questions
Permitted reasonable adjustments
If you are not ready - Do not sit it; three strikes and you're out!
What happens if you fail?
Illness/circumstances impairing your ability to sit the examination
Calculations
Poor exam technique
Experiences from our pre‐regs: how did they feel, what were their concerns?
References
Section 6 -
Specialist placements
Chapter 17 -
Integrated sandwich courses
First placement &ndash1; fifth year (July to January)
Second placement &ndash1; third year (January to July)
Chapter 18 -
Primary care trusts
PCT pharmacy work
The role of the pre‐reg within a PCT
Analysing prescribing (ePact) data
Prescribing reviews, including yearly updates on everything!
Clinic visits
GP practice audits
Training of healthcare professionals and patients, e.g. community inhaler counselling and cardiac rehab patients
Providing pharmaceutical care to managed services: intermediate care, learning difficulties, etc.
Medicines information enquiry answering
Summarising national guidance such as NICE guidance and NPSA alerts
Writing guidelines or documents relating to the safe and secure use of medicines
Dissemination of national guidance for local use: cost comparisons of different pharmaceutical products using Drug Tariffs
Chapter 19 -
Pharmaceutical industry
Chapter 20 -
Specialist focus: paediatrics
Calculations, calculations, calculations!
Dealing with very sick young children: the emotions
Dealing with the parents rather than the children themselves
Many common skills no matter what clinical area
Section 7 -
Future issues
Chapter 21 - The future: gazing at the crystal
ball
Index
