Prescribing and Pharmacology Workshop -Perth

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

This workshop is now refreshed with new content and ready to provide an overview of Nurse Practitioner’s role in prescribing, the key issues faced with particular focus on PBS access, regulations and limitations.

Program Overview:

This workshop will provide an overview of Nurse Practitioner’s role in prescribing, the key issues faced with particular focus on PBS access, regulations and limitations.

• Key issues: legislation, ethics, PBS, scheduling changes 
• Evidence based prescribing  and essential resources 
• Communication  and patient-centred approach 
• Update on recent new drugs,  guidelines , cautions,  controversies, drug interactions

|  WHO CAN ATTEND

This program is available to endorsed Nurse Practitioners, Advanced Practice Nurses, Nurse Practitioner candidates and students, nurses, and health professionals.

|  COST OF REGISTRATION

Registration costs: $275

PLEASE NOTE: For this course to go ahead, there will need to be 15 delegates - We will confirm 15 working days before the course if it goes ahead. 

|  ENQUIRIES

Contact Name: Melinda Phillips

Contact Phone: 1300 433 660 or 0436 398 145

Contact Email: events@acnp.org.au

|  WORKSHOP FACILITATORS

Dr Jenny Gowan 

Accredited Pharmacist & Teaching Associate Monash Uni
PhD, Grad Dip Comm Pharm, PhC, FACPP, FPS, AACPA, MSHPA 

A current member of the PSA Branch committee, Editorial Board Member of AUS-DI,  SHPA  ‘Don’t Rush to Crush’, Guidelines Committee for the Australian Asthma Handbook, and the Thunderstorm Asthma Expert panel. Jenny has published over 350 educational articles and presents hundreds of talks annually.

Robyn Saunders 
Accredited Pharmacist
B Pharm, Grad Dip Hosp Pharm, AACPA

Robyn Saunders graduated with a bachelor of pharmacy degree from the Victorian College of Pharmacy (now Monash University). She has extensive experience in the provision of medication management services to residents of aged care facilities and medication users in their own homes.

|  DISCLAIMER

Certificates of Participation will be issued upon completion of a quiz for all program