Students Transitioning to Expert Practitioners (STEP UP)
This web-based module has been designed to help undergraduate students understand professional roles and develop key counselling skills to assist patient behavioural change in chronic disease management.
The 5As describe the five key roles a pharmacist can perform to help patients change their behaviours.
Motivational interviewing (MI) is a counselling technique that supports patients to work through their beliefs about health issues until they actively seek change and become engaged in how to effect change.
Clinical roles for pharmacists
Pharmacists have many potential clinical roles during a standard interaction with a patient. Below is a list of potential clinically effective pharmacist interventions that are relevant to the scenarios within the module.
Knowing what to do in practice is just one half of the challenge of improving care. Actually implementing what you have learnt into real practice - and then sustaining this advanced practice - can often be trickier.
Case study videos
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