Medical Prescription
Session 2: Medical Prescription
Total Session Time: 120 minutes
Prerequisites
Learning Tasks
By the end of this session students are expected to be able to:
Resources Needed:
SESSION OVERVIEW
|Step |Time |Activity/ |Content |
| | |Method | |
|1 |05 minutes |Presentation |Introduction, Learning Tasks |
|2 |05 minutes |Presentation |Definition of a Medical |
| | | |Prescription |
|3 |50 minutes |Presentation |Parts of a Medical Prescription |
| | |Small Group Discussion| |
|4 | 50 minutes |Presentation |Features of Different Parts of a |
| | |Small Group Discussion|Medical Prescription |
|5 |05 minutes |Presentation |Key Points |
|6 |05 minutes |Presentation |Evaluation |
SESSION CONTENTS
STEP 1: Presentation of Session Title and Learning Tasks (5 minutes)
READ or ASK students to read the learning tasks and clarify
ASK students if they have any questions before continuing.
STEP 2: Definition of Medical Prescription (5 minutes)
Medical Prescription
dispenser which contains instructions to dispense or compound and
administer specified medicines to a clearly mentioned patient
Or
properly licensed medical practitioner
o A prescription designate specific medication and dosage to be prepared
by a pharmacist/pharmaceutical technician and administered to a
particular patient
o A medical prescription can be printed or written in ink
Categories of a Medical Prescription
requiring compounding or mixing by the pharmacist/pharmaceutical
technician
compounding
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Fig 2.1: Sample Prescriptions
STEP 3: Parts of a Medical Prescription (50 minutes)
|Activity: Small Group Discussion ( 30 minutes) |
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|DIVIDE students into small manageable groups |
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|ASK students to discuss on the following question |
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|What are the Parts of a Medical Prescription? |
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|ALLOW students to discuss for 30 minutes |
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|ALLOW few groups to present and the rest to add points not mentioned |
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|CLARIFY and SUMMARIZE by using the contents below |
The following are parts of a Medical Prescription:
personnel)
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Figure 2.2: Sample of Filled Medical Prescription
[pic][pic] Refer students to Handout 2.1: Sample of a filled Medical
Prescription
STEP 4: Features of Different Parts of a Medical Prescription (50 minutes)
|Activity: Small Group Discussion ( 30 minutes) |
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|DIVIDE students into small manageable groups |
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|[pic] ASK students to discuss on the following question |
|What are the features of different parts of a Medical Prescription? |
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|[pic] Refer students to Handout 2.1: Sample of a Filled Medical |
|Prescription |
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|ALLOW students to discuss for 15 minutes |
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|ALLOW few groups to present and the rest to add points not mentioned |
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|CLARIFY and SUMMARIZE by using the contents below |
The following are features of different parts of a medical prescription:
o Full address of the institution
o Name, address and signature of the prescriber together with
professional qualification. (ACO, CO, AMO, MD or DS etc) written and
signed in indelible/permanent ink
o Patient information which includes the patient full name, address,
hospital registration number, sex, age and /or body weight of the
patient
o The date prescription was written showing day, month and year
o Consists of the heading where the symbol Rx (an abbreviation for
recipe, the Latin for ‘take thou’) is found
o The Rx symbol comes before the inscription
o Is also called the body of the prescription
o Provides the names and quantities of the chief ingredients of the
prescription to be dispensed
o The dose/strength and dosage form, such as tablet, suspension,
capsule, syrup is found
o This gives specific directions for the pharmaceutical personnel on how
to compound the medication
o These directions to the pharmaceutical personnel are usually expressed
in Latin or may consist of a short sentence such as: "make a
solution," "mix and place into 10 capsules” or "dispense 10 tablets"
o This gives instructions to the patient for use:
administered.
when and how long the drug is to be taken
the Latin, meaning "mark." Or “Label”
important for the patient
STEP 5: Key Points (5 minutes)
prevent unnecessary mistakes in interpretation
o If not written clearly, check with the prescriber and never guess
on the market that can be purchased over the counter, thus their name
Over-the-Counter drugs (OTC)
STEP 6: Evaluation (5 minutes)
References
Ansel, H. C. (2012). Pharmaceutical Calculations (14th ed.).
Philadelfia,United States of America: LWW. .
Bentley, A. O., & Rawlins, E. A. (1977). Bentley's textbook of
pharmaceutics (8th ed.). London, United Kingdom: Bailliere Tindall.
Cooper, J. W., Gunn, C., & Carter, S. J. (2008). Cooper and Gunn's
dispensing for pharmaceutical students (12th ed.). New Delhi, India:
CBS.
Rees, J. A., Smith, I., & Watson, J. Pharmaceutical practice (5th ed.).
London, United Kingdom: Churchill Livingstone
|[pic] |Handout 2.1: Sample of a Filled Medical Prescription |
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Note: Strength of amoxicillin used in the prescription is 500mg
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