chapter 1

Question 1

1. Dispensing refers to ?

Answer 1

process of preparing and giving medicine to a named person on the basis of a prescription. It involves the correct interpretation of the prescription and the accurate preparation and labeling of medicine for use by the patient.

Question 2

2. Dispensing Cycle

Answer 2

1. receive and validate prescription.
2. understand and interpret prescription.
3. prepare and label items for issue.
4. make a final check.
5. record action taken.
6. issue medication to patient with clear instruction and advice.

Question 3

3. what do we mean by prescription?

Answer 3

a written, verbal, or electronic order from a practitioner or designated agent to a pharmacist for a particular medication for a specific patient.

Question 4

4. Writing Prescriptions,Who can write a Rx?

Answer 4

1. Practitioners
2. Physicians, veterinarians, dentists

Question 5

5. what are parts of Prescription?

Answer 5

1-Prescriber’s office information
2-Patient Information
3-Date
4-Superscription or heading.
5-Inscription, or main body of the prescription.
6-Subscription, or directions to the compounder.
7-Signatura or Signa, or directions for the patient.
8-Refill
9-Prescriber Signature

Question 6

6. why it’s important to write Prescriber’s office information inside the prescription?

Answer 6

To confirm dosage or medication or for the correction of any sort of discrepancy in prescription.

Question 7

7. why date must be properly mentioned on the prescription?

Answer 7

1. tells about the day of prescription.
2. necessary to check on refill status.
3. It is necessary for the narcotic medicine

Question 8

8. Narcotic-Outpatient setting Prescribing narcotics must only be undertaken by:

Answer 8

1. Either a specialist or consultant (within their scope of specialty) may prescribe narcotics for a maximum duration of up to 30 days in the following the dosage forms; tablets, capsules and patches.
2. The validity of a narcotic prescription shall be no more than three days, counted from the day the prescription was issued.
3. The prescription must be issued through the unified platform system.
4. Physicians are not allowed to prescribe for themselves or their relatives.

Question 9

9. Superscription consists of which sign ?

Answer 9

1. RX - Latin word means recipe (take or take thou).
2. instructs the pharmacist to take of the ingredients mentioned below the amounts specified.

Question 10

10. which part called ‘Heart of prescription’?

Answer 10

• Inscription.
• Part which contains the name of the drug or drugs, quantity of drug per dose, and the physical entity needed ie tablet, suspension and capsule. It may be an official formula or trade name, generic name or special formula.

Question 11

11. Explain the meaning:
    - Official & Special formula

Answer 11

• Official = (i.e., British National Formulary, British Pharmaceutical Codex or British Pharmacopoeia) preparation, together with the quantity required.
• Special formula = which case the quantity of each ingredient will be stated together with a description of the type of preparation, e.g., mixture, lotion, tablet.

Question 12

12. Subscription consists of?

Answer 12

• prescriber’s directions to the pharmacist for dispensing medication.

Question 13

13. In extemporaneous prescription it also includes?

Answer 13

• How to make.
• What to make.
• The type of dosage form to be compound

Question 14

14. The signatura consists of the ?

Answer 14

directions that are to be copied on the label by the pharmacist for the instruction of the patient.

Question 15

15. Refills information meaning ?

Answer 15

Dispensing an old prescription or again refilling of prescription.

Example:
 No refill is mentioned on the prescription for narcotic drugs.
 Refill is mentioned for diseases like tuberculosis.

Question 16

16. At the end of prescription, the practitioner must confirm it by?

Answer 16

• Official sign but not any signature stamp.
• verbal prescription then the pharmacist should first write it then take the signature.
• Signature can be replaced by License no., narcotic registry sign, or DEA no.