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Journal article
CPD aligned to competency standards to support quality practice
Pharmacy, Vol.5(1), pp.1-24
2017
PMID: 28970424
Abstract
As medication experts, pharmacists are key members of the patient’s healthcare team. Pharmacists must maintain their competence to practice to remain responsive to the increasingly complex healthcare sector. This paper seeks to determine how competence training for pharmacists may enhance quality in their professional development. Results of two separately administered surveys (2012 and 2013) were compared to examine the reported continued professional development (CPD) practices of Australian pharmacists. Examination of results from both studies enabled a focus on how the competency standards inform CPD practice.In the survey administered in 2012, 91% (n = 253/278) pharmacists reported that they knew their current registration requirements. However, in the survey administered in 2013, only 43% (n = 46/107) reported utilization of the National Competency Standards Framework for Pharmacists in Australia (NCS) to self-asses their practice as part of their annual re-registration requirements. Fewer, 23% (n = 25/107), used the NCS to plan their CPD. This may be symptomatic of poor familiarity with the NCS, uncertainty around undertaking self-directed learning as part of a structured learning plan and/or misunderstandings around what CPD should include. This is supported by thematic analysis of pharmacists’ social media comments. Initial and ongoing competence training to support meaningful CPD requires urgent attention in Australia. The competence (knowledge, skills and attributes) required to engage in meaningful CPD practice should be introduced and developed prior to entry into practice; other countries may find they are in a similar position.
Details
- Title
- CPD aligned to competency standards to support quality practice
- Authors
- Rose Nash (Corresponding Author) - University of TasmaniaWendy Thompson - The University of QueenslandIeva Stupans - RMIT UniversityEsther Lau - Queensland University of TechnologyManuel Serrano Santos - Queensland University of TechnologyNatalie Brown - University of TasmaniaLisa Nissen - Queensland University of TechnologyLeanne Chalmers - University of Tasmania
- Publication details
- Pharmacy, Vol.5(1), pp.1-24
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Date published
- 2017
- DOI
- 10.3390/pharmacy5010012
- ISSN
- 2226-4787
- PMID
- 28970424
- Copyright note
- © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Grant note
- Wendy Thompson received a UQ New Staff Start up Grant (2011) to assist with work on Survey 1.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health - Biomedicine
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991199922502621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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