Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
SIRCDIS006 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Maintain dispensary stock
Version 1.0
Issue Date: May 2024
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Unit of Competency | SIRCDIS006 - Maintain dispensary stock |
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Employability Skills | |||
Learning Outcomes and Application | This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to assist pharmacists maintain all types of dispensary stock including scheduled medicines, perishable goods and raw materials for compounding. It requires the ability to order, receive and store stock, maintain its quality and administer stock control records.This unit applies to senior dispensary assistants working in community pharmacies. When maintaining dispensary stock, they work under the direct supervision of a pharmacist and their role is limited to those functions that do not require them to exercise professional pharmaceutical judgement or discretion.No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication. | ||
Duration and Setting | X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting. Skills must be demonstrated in a pharmacy with a designated operational dispensary area and stock control and storage facilities for perishable and non-perishable dispensary stock. This must be in an industry workplace, which meets Pharmacy Board of Australia and relevant industry standards for dispensary operations. Assessment must ensure use of: information technology hardware and software dispensary stock control software currently used by the community pharmacy industry refrigerator or freezer dedicated to pharmaceuticals secured storage locations for dispensary items requiring secured storage conditions pharmacy shelving, shelf facings and signage for dispensary medicines a diverse commercial product range of pharmacy medicines: Prescription Only Medicine (S4) branded medicines bio drops insulin liquids ointments and creams pessaries suppositories tablets and capsules vaccines waste disposal bags and containers for pharmaceutical waste including sharps containers template dispensary stock control documents: order and delivery documentation: purchase orders standing orders packing slips stock recording documentation Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) forms template dispensary stock control reports: stock level reports stock performance reports stock loss reports stocktake reports organisational procedures for maintaining dispensary stock pharmacists with whom the individual can interact assessment activities that allow the individual to work with commercial speed, timing and productivity to complete stock control activities within nominated deadlines. Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisation’s requirements for assessors, and: have worked in the pharmacy sector for at least two years. |
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Competency Field | Dispensary |
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
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Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Order dispensary stock. |
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Element: Take delivery of dispensary stock. |
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Element: Store dispensary stock. |
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Element: Maintain dispensary stock. |
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Element: Dispose of dispensary stock waste. |
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