THE fourth online module of an education package to support the pharmacy profession through the upcoming codeine scheduling changes has been released by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia and the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.
With the upcoming changes to scheduling of combination medicines containing codeine, many patients will have to change how they manage their pain, placing pharmacists in a central position to respond to and help manage acute pain presentations in pharmacy.
This online module is titled 'Codeine rescheduling: Principles of pain management/Pain management in practice'.
Visit psa.org.au or myCPD.org.au to access the training modules.
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