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Chapter 6 - The Prescription, Pharmacy, and Pharmacist

Text Book: Understanding Pharmacology for Health Professionals

Review Questions

1. Name the 14 component parts of a prescription.
2. How does a prescription differ from a medication order?
3. Describe how verbal orders for drugs are handled by a nurse in the hospital.
4. What precautions should be taken to prevent the theft of prescription pads from a medical office?
5. What precaution is taken to prevent prescriptions for schedule drugs from being written by an unlicensed individual?
6. What precaution is taken to prevent additional medication orders from being illegally inserted after the physician signs a paper physician's order sheet?
7. How can a physician indicate on the prescription that the patient should receive a trade name drug and not a generic drug equivalent?
8. Compare and contrast several different types of pharmacies.
9. Describe three types of counseling that a pharmacist dose.
10. What would you tell a patient about how to safely store and dispose of his/her drugs?
11. Define these abbreviations and symbols: RX, #, Sig., NR, DAW, and DEA.

Clinical Applications

1. Identify the components of this sample prescription. See figure 6-10. By answering the following questions.
2. What is the name of the drug that was prescribed by the physician?
3. What disease is this drug prescribed to treat.
4. What is the strength of the dose of this drug?
5. What is the form in which this drug is manufactured?
6. How many did the physician prescribe to be given to the patient?
7. What dose the abbreviation "S" mean?
8. How many is the patient to take and when? (Hint: look up the symbols and abbreviations in "Appendix C: Glossary of Abbreviations, Acronyms, Short Forms, symbols, and their meanings" at the end of the textbook to understand what the physician is saying).
9. How many refills are allowed?