T5: Animal medications and the vet nurses responsibility Flashcards

Question

Describe a Schedule 2 drug

Answer 1

**Pharmacy Medicines** These are poisons for therapeutic use that should be handled with care and only available to the public from pharmacies or persons licensed to sell Pharmacy Medicines Example - Canasten (antifungal treatment)

Answer 2

**Pharmacist Only Medicines** These are potent substances for therapeutic use which are of a sufficiently dangerous nature to warrant their distribution to be restricted to pharmacists or authorised persons only. Example - Insulin

Answer 3

**Prescription Only Medicines or Prescription Animal Remedy** These are poisons that, in the interest of public safety, prescription and supply should be restricted to medical, dental or veterinary authorised persons Example - Penicillin

Answer 4

**Caution** substances or preparations of a hazardous nature which must be readily available to the public, but do require caution in handling, use and storage. These substances may be sold by an animal product retailer providing they are sold in the containers in which they were supplied to the business, and these containers are unopened. An authorised person must supervise the transfer of these into smaller quantities for sale. Example - Equimec, many worming preparations

Answer 5

**Poison** Substances or preparations of a poisonous nature which must be readily available to the public for domestic, pastoral, horticultural, veterinary, photographic, for industrial purposes, or for the destruction of pests. Like S5 substances, these may be sold by an animal product retailer, on the condition that they are in the containers in which they were received by the business and these containers have not been opened. Only an authorised person may transfer these substances into smaller quantities for sale. Example – Tiguvon

Answer 6

**Dangerous Poison** Theses are substances or preparations of exceptional danger which require special precautions in manufacture, storage and use, for which individual labelling and distribution regulations are required. Example - Arsenic

Answer 7

**Controlled Drugs** These are substances or preparations which are dependence producing or potentially dependence producing. These include amphetamines, narcotics and other drugs of addiction. Strict regulations regarding the prescription, supply, storage and record keeping apply.

Answer 8

* Controlled Drugs (Schedule 8) * Dangerous Poison (Schedule 7) * Prescription Only Medicines (Schedule 4). A veterinary nurse may dispense or administer S4 under direct supervision from a veterinarian. * Pharmacist Only Medicine (Schedule 3) drugs may be sold over the counter, without a prescription. However, a veterinarian must supervise the sale to give advice on directions for use.

Answer 9

* 1999 amendment * KETAMINE and ANABOLIC and ANDROGENIC STEROIDS. * This amendment caused Ketamine and Anabolic/Androgenic Steroids to be classified as Schedule 11. The effect of this is to provide for a greater range of law enforcement tools to be used in investigating their misuse, and to provide penalties appropriate to trafficking offences

Answer 10

* Retail stock must be stored in a place that is not accessible to the public. * Store so the substance cannot mix with or contaminate food, drink, drugs, or other poisons if the container breaks. * Store out of reach of children, at least 1.4 m off the floor

Answer 11

* Store in a lockable cupboard, dispensary, drawer, storeroom or other place to which the public does not have access

Answer 12

* Stored so it cannot mix or contaminate food, drink, drugs, or other poisons if the container breaks. * Store out of reach of children, at least 1.4 m off the floor

Answer 13

* Store contaminate food, drior other poisons if the container breaks. * Store out of reach of children, at least 1.4 m off the floor.

Answer 14

* Retail stock must be stored in a locked receptacle or store room. * Store so the substance cannot mix or contaminate food, drink, drugs, or other poisons if the container breaks

Answer 15

* Must be kept in an approved fixed and locked receptacle, the key to which is kept on the vet and records must be kept.

T5: Animal medications and the vet nurses responsibility Flashcards

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