Healthcare

Self-care, 85 YH credits.

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Part of the YH programme Pharmacy Technician at TUC Yrkeshögskola. This course cannot be applied for on its own. Programme code: APOD24STO.

Self-care gives you specialised knowledge of the industry and the professional role, and the ability to search for information critically and on a scientific basis. You gain specialised knowledge of over-the-counter medicines, dosage, side effects and drug interactions. The course is given within TUC Yrkeshögskola's YH programme Pharmacy Technician and trains you to actively listen to and interact with customers in order to independently provide qualified self-care advice. You also learn to assess when a customer should be referred to a pharmacist or to healthcare.

Duration: 17 weeks
Language: Swedish
Level: Advanced
CSN-eligible

Time commitment: 85 YH credits, about 17 weeks of full-time study

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About the course.

The course will provide specialised knowledge of the industry and the professional role, and increased knowledge of searching for information critically and on a scientific basis. The course will provide specialised knowledge of over-the-counter medicines, dosage, side effects and drug interactions. The course will provide the skills to actively listen to and interact with customers in order to independently provide qualified self-care advice and assess when a customer should be referred to a pharmacist and/or healthcare.

The course will provide specialised knowledge of the industry and the professional role, and increased knowledge of searching for information critically and on a scientific basis. The course will provide specialised knowledge of over-the-counter medicines, dosage, side effects and drug interactions. The course will provide the skills to actively listen to and interact with customers in order to independently provide qualified self-care advice and assess when a customer should be referred to a pharmacist and/or healthcare.

What you will learn

What you learn.

  • You can search for and evaluate information about self-care critically and on a scientific basis
  • You have specialised knowledge of over-the-counter medicines, dosage and side effects
  • You can identify drug interactions when giving over-the-counter advice
  • You can actively listen to and interact with customers in self-care advice
  • You can independently provide qualified self-care advice
  • You can assess when a customer should be referred to a pharmacist or healthcare
Curriculum

How the course is built.

  1. Source criticism and scientific basis

    Searching for and evaluating information about self-care critically.

  2. Over-the-counter medicines

    Dosage, side effects and interactions for common over-the-counter medicines.

  3. Customer interaction in self-care advice

    Actively listening to and communicating with customers about self-care questions.

  4. Assessment and referral

    Deciding when a customer needs to be referred to a pharmacist or healthcare.

Target audience

Who is this for?

The course is aimed at you who are studying the YH programme Pharmacy Technician at TUC and will provide qualified self-care advice to pharmacy customers.

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