Vaseline Intensive Rescue Guide to Recording Continuing Professional Development

As recording continuing professional development (CPD) became mandatory this year, all pharmacists should become familiar with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain’s website www.uptodate.org.uk. If you’ve only kept your records on paper before there are lots of helpful guides, case studies and examples on the site, so why not use the Vaseline Intensive Rescue Skin Health Training Tool to get you started?

Once you have worked through the learning modules and completed the case studies you can log that you have completed the Vaseline Intensive Rescue Training Tool, which covers 12 individual Community Practice & General competencies listed below.

Competencies are the things that pharmacists or pharmacy technicians need to be able to understand and do in order to perform effectively¹. Although competencies are important to broaden your knowledge and establish the areas you may need to improve, you by no means have to complete every single one, as some may not be relevant to your day to day role.

If you have any feedback about any element of the Skin Health Training Tool, we’d love to hear from you. You can either: fill out the form included in the pack, and fax it to 0207 331 9083; or e-mail vaseline@uk.cohnwolfe.com.

Competencies covered by the Vaseline Intensive Rescue Skin Health Pack are:

Community Practice
C1 Working with patients and the public to maximise the efficacy, safety and cost effectiveness of medicines	C1a Assessing the medication needs of patients C1b Reviewing medication for its clinical appropriateness C1c Reviewing medication with patients to identify difficulties and potential risk e.g. concordance issues, adverse effects, changing medication needs C1f Providing advice & counselling e.g. related to minor ailments, self care
C3 Addressing the health and medication needs of specific client groups	C3c Providing pharmaceutical care to children and their carers C3e Providing pharmaceutical care to people with chronic conditions e.g. asthma, diabetes, CHD, mental ill health
General Competencies
G1 Being a pharmacist	G1a Using expert knowledge and skills to benefit patients G1c Giving informed and accurate pharmaceutical advice G1d Taking a patient-centred approach G1e Making sound decisions and solving problems in relation to drug therapy G1f Using clinical and pharmaceutical knowledge to optimise the balance among effectiveness, safety and cost of medicines G1m Keeping abreast of issues affecting pharmacy and pharmacists

¹ Watson, Gallagher Managing for Results CIPD 2005