Lecture with discussion workshop: The yellow brick road to IP and beyond
This session is designed to be support those interesting in gaining the independent prescribing (IP) qualification, those on their IP journey and with embedding best practice IP approaches in practice. The session will review aspects such as the clinical management guidelines, the Therapeutics Common Final Assessment (TCFA), and how to develop local relationships to ensure local prescribing habits result in the best patient care.
Learning outcome(s):
Registrants will be able to obtain a full clinical history and understand the most appropriate further investigations for patients with chronic and acute eye conditions (s.7)
Registrants will be able to work within their own individual scope of practice and make appropriate decisions based on clinical knowledge as to when to treat and when to refer (s.6)
Registrants will be able to show care and compassion with patients who present with ocular pathology and work with collaboratively with others to ensure the best patient care is provided (s.4, s.10)
IP registrants will be able to identify chronic and acute eye conditions and understand the treatment options for each condition and prescribe the most appropriate drug, dose and formulation.