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Counselling Session 3: Device-Technique Check

1. Aim

To practise counselling 3 of 4 using an explicitly assumed teaching scenario or a supervised de-identified case. An actual patient session must be entered in the student record.

2. Requirements

Assumed teaching scenario or consented de-identified clinical record, verified medicine and laboratory sources, local policy, observation form, supervisor, and private setting. Actual patient details, medicine strengths, dose instructions, laboratory intervals, and software must be entered in the student record.

3. Theory

A medicine device works only when the patient uses the exact model correctly. Inhalers, injectors, and other devices have different steps, so the local approved device and demonstration kit must be identified. The student should observe a return demonstration and correct gaps without assuming a universal technique.

4. Procedure

1. Confirm this session number, teaching or actual status, consent and privacy requirements, and supervisor.
2. List verified facts separately from assumed scenario details and missing information.
3. Perform the supervised reasoning or communication task: Use a placebo or training device under supervision. Ask the role-play patient to demonstrate, compare with the manufacturer instructions, give focused feedback, and repeat teach-back.
4. Record exact source titles and dates, any limitation, and the supervisor feedback.
5. Do not give a patient-specific instruction from an assumed case; seek qualified clinical review before any recommendation.
6. Document the learning outcome and whether a real supervised encounter occurred.

5. Observation and calculation

Assumed teaching scenario only: An assumed role-play uses an assumed inhaler model but omits an assumed step. The model and correct step must be entered in the student record from its actual instructions. Every invented fact and observation is assumed. This is not a real patient encounter or clinical recommendation.

6. Output or final result

Submit a labelled device demonstration loop and a supervisor-reviewed learning record. Actual session completion and patient outcome: Record here.

Teaching-lab safety: Protect patient confidentiality, use consent and local supervision, and escalate urgent or uncertain clinical questions through the responsible care team. Do not enter assumed details into a patient chart.

This page is a supervised-activity guide; it does not report a completed case.

7. Sources

• PharmacoLearn Pharm.D Year 4 syllabus
• PCI Pharm.D Regulations and Syllabus
• PharmacoLearn Year 4 Syllabus
• Primary professional guidance

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Theory notes: Pharm D Year 4, 4.3 Clinical Pharmacy