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The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the work role. This includes knowledge of:
legal and ethical requirements (national, state/territory) for pharmacy work, and how these are applied in organisations, including:codes of conductduty of care (and implications of negligence)privacy, confidentiality and disclosurerecords management rights and responsibilities of workers, employers and clientsspecific legislation:medicines and their usethe practice of pharmacydifferent schedules of medicines and pharmaceutical productswork role boundaries – responsibilities and limitationswork health and safetylegal requirements and principles of pharmaceutical product labelling (product name, batch numbering and expiry date):Pharmacy Board of Australia’s Guidelines on specialised supply arrangements, national guidelines and legislation on the filling of dose administration containers specific labelling requirements for filling DAAs and other containerskey information for inclusion:date on which the container was filleddirections for use of each medicine according to work sheetinclusion of ancillary labels, where required name, strength, form and quantity of all medicines supplied in the containerpharmacy detailsPharmacy Board of Australia Guidelines for dispensing medicines, that apply to individual workerskey information in standard pharmaceutical references and their use by pharmacy assistants, including:Australian pharmaceutical formulary and handbook (APF)MIMsAustralian medicines handbook (AMH) Micromedexinfection control principles and their relevance to pharmaceutical packagingfeatures of packaging equipment including their operation, cleaning and maintenance, including: counting traysironsheat sealing equipmentmeasuresscalestweezers packaging principles and processes, including:calculations, weights and measuresproperties of container types and selection for usevarious pack sizes and selection for usetypes of packaging materialsenvironmental conditions required for pharmaceutical packaging related to:humidity, lightsecuritytemperatureventilationproduct identification and handling, including those for:formulary medicines and non-formulary medicines products with the required integrity as well as those whose integrity has been compromisedroutine handling of products and products requiring special handling