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Pharmacy practice reviews use best practice standards and guidelines to help pharmacists review current practice, consider implementing changes to practice, review and reflect on these changes, and to monitor progress. These materials also focus on identifying priorities for patient counselling, provide tools to assist effective counselling and identify pharmacist competencies which will be addressed by completion of the activity. All participants receive a feedback report that includes individual results, aggregate results of all participants' practices and an expert commentary on the aggregate results.

• Assess adequacy of symptom control and functionality and identify treatment goals for patients using an opioid analgesic(s). (skill and knowledge)
• Recognise potential overuse, underuse or misuse of opioid analgesics and refer when appropriate. (knowledge and skill)
• Discuss analgesic use and improvement in symptom control and functionality with the patient.
• Assess the adverse effect profile of opioid analgesic use and recommend appropriate management. (skill)
• Empower patients to discuss their pain management with their prescribing doctor, when appropriate. (attitude)
• Select tools to assist patients to monitor and manage their pain and promote interdisciplinary communication. (knowledge and attitude)
• Self-assess your abilities and practice against standards relevant to your role to determine training/development needs.

Intern Pharmacists: if this Pharmacy practice review is a course requirement for your registration by the end of 2010, completed data must be submitted to NPS before 30 July 2010.

Your free Pharmacy Practice Review pack will be forwarded by mail.

This activity is accredited by:

• Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) as a self audit activity for 8 points. Accreditation number: CX100016A.
• Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) CPD Program for 8 hours of content as Group-2 activity for inclusion in an individual pharmacist's CPD plan.

Also recognised by the Australian Association of Consultant Pharmacy (AACP) for 8 points.

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