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Apply procedures for handling hazardous substances as a pharmacy technician
3 Credits 2 Level
Purpose This unit standard is intended for pharmacy technicians or people working towards a pharmacy technician qualification.
People credited with this unit standard are able to handle hazardous substances in the pharmacy, and dispose of hazardous substances from the pharmacy.
Classification
Available grade
Entry information
Pharmacy > Pharmacy Services
Achieved
Critical health and safety prerequisites
Open.
Explanatory notes
Pharmacy technicians must act within the legislative limits of their role as specified by
This unit standard is dispensing or compounding.
2 expiring evidence of a minimum of 30 working days practice in a non-simulated pharmacy workplace environment. This evidence is to b e supplied in a pharmacist verifier’s statement.
3 Legislation, codes, and standards relevant to this unit standard include:
Consumer Guarantees Act 1993;
Fair Trading Act 1986;
Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 (HSNO Act 1996);
Health and Disability Commissioner (Code of Health and Disability Services
Consumers’ Rights) Regulations 1996;
Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights, available from the Health and Disability Commissioner’s office;
Health Information Privacy Code 19 94, available from the Privacy Commissioner’s office;
Health (Retention of Health Information) Regulations 1996;
Health (Needles and Syringes) Regulations 1998;
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Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992;
Health and Safety in Employment Regulations 1995;
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Medicines Act 1981;
Medicines Regulations 1984;
Misuse of Drugs Act 1975;
Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1977;
Privacy Act 1993, and any subsequent amendments;
New Zealand Code of Good Manufacturing Practice for Manufacture and Distribution of Therapeutic Goods , Part 3 Compounding and Dispensing (1993), available from
Medsafe;
The New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule , available from http://www.pharmac.govt.nz
;
Pharmacy Council of New Zealand Code of Ethics 2004, available at http://www.pharmacycouncil.org.nz
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4 Definitions
Hazardous substances
– include potentially hazardous substances;
Standard operating procedures – written documentation of the specified way to perform an activity.
5 Candidates must be aware of, and comply with, standard operating procedures and
Organisational Quality Specifications listed in the District Health Board Pharmacy
Services Agreement in their workplace.
6 Access to appropriate reference resources in accordance with Medsafe audit requirements is required for completion of assessment against this unit standard.
Evidence presented by the candidate must be in accordance with reference resources
7 This unit standard covers handling of hazardous substances in the pharmacy, including the dispensary and the compounding or manufacturing area.
8
This unit standard is
– pharmaceuticals, sharps, clinical and biological waste (blood, swabs, urine, vomit), expiring
9 Equipment which has been in contact with hazardous substances may include but is not limited to – balances, cleaning equipment, counting trays, first aid materials, measures, work surfaces, waste containers, weighing paper.
Outcome 1
Handle hazardous substances in the pharmacy.
Evidence requirements
1.1 Hazardous substances and equipment are identified in accordance with legislation, codes, standards, and standard operating procedures.
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Hazardous substances are managed in accordance with legislation, codes, standards, and standard operating procedures.
Range includes but is not limited to
– receive, unpack, label, store, isolate spills, manage trauma.
Outcome 2
Dispose of hazardous substances from the pharmacy.
Evidence requirements
2.1 Hazardous substances are removed from the work area in accordance with legislation, codes, standards, and standard operating procedures.
Range includes but is not limited to – secure, dispose, product recall.
2.2 Equipment which has been in contact with hazardous substances is managed in accordance with legislation, codes, standards, and standard operating procedures.
Range includes but is not limited to – clean, dispose.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process Version Date Last Date for Assessment
Registration
Revision
Review
Review
1 30 January 1997 31 December 2017
This unit standard is
3 22 September 2000 31 December 2017
4
5 expiring
24 August 2007
31 December 2017
31 December 2017 Revision
Review 6 21 November 2008 31 December 2017
Review 7 16 April 2015 31 December 2017
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference 0128
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do
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Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA, before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
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Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
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