Controlled Drugs - Examples Flashcards
Tramadol 50mg 1-2 QDS prn. Mitte: 200 (two zero zero)
FP10:
- Legal: Due diligence is exercised - date is missing but not incorrect, NO, because quantity used in words.
- Records: None, send to NHSBSA at the end of the month.
OxyContin MR (modified release) 80mg (eighty milligrams)
Take 1 (one) tablet every 12 (twelve) hours.
Legal: Incorrect spelling of drug, quantity missing in words + figures, form is missing, out of date. If certain particulars are missing, can be amended.
Can’t supply an alternative form/medicine type, need to only dispense what is written on Rx.
Methadone 1mg/ml. Take 30ml daily.
Dispense daily starting on 17/1/25.
If pharmacy is closed on Sunday, please dispense double on Saturday. Send 210ml.
No specific amount on instalment direction, form is missing.
Rx to be amended if they wish to have sugar free. 30ml are dispensed today.
No supervised dose unless home office wording states to do so.
Records: CD register = legal requirement.
Can’t dispense double dose on 1 day unless home office wording states to do so.
Temgesic tablets.
Take QDS prn for back pain.
2 packs of 50
Two packs of fifty.
No, strength is missing. Dose is incomplete, > 28 days validity. Records made POM register = legal.
Send to NHSBSA at the end of the month.
1 pack can dispensed today and the other packs needed should be dispensed within the validity of Rx.
Zomorph
Take 10mg QDS
Total 800mg (eight hundred milligrams)
Incomplete address, strength missing, form is missing, identification number of Rxer is missing, out of date, total quantity can be amended.
Zomorph is a 12 hourly preparation do they mean I/R.
Records: CD register = legal, POM register = good practice.
Send Rx to the NHSBSA at the end of the month and keep a copy at the pharmacy for 2 years.
Temazepam 20mg
2 nocte before dental appointment.
For dental use only.
Mitte: 4
Not legal, date is incorrect, age?, For dental tx only statement required, form is missing, quantity in words is incorrect, is the medicine in the DPF.
When is their dental appointment? Determines how much is needed.
Records: CD No Reg, POM register.
Send to NHSBSA at the end of the month.
MST Tablets 10mg + 60mg
One of each strength to be taken twice daily
56 (fifty-six) x 10mg
56 (fifty-six) x 60mg
Post dated.
Should be written separately.
Gabapentin capsules 300mg
Reduce dose according to printed reduction schedule.
100 (one hundred)
Dose direction needs to be specific
Post-dated
Morphine MST
10mg (ten milligrams)
80 capsules
Quantity not in words.
Morphine MR capsules 10mg.
Take one twice daily.
Supply 56 tablets.
Quantity not in words.
Concerts 18mg (eighteen milligrams) tablets one mane.
Mitte: 30 (thirty) tablets.
Legally ok.
Oxycodone 10mg/1ml solution for injection ampoules.
20 ampules
For use in syringe driver.
Oxycodone 80mg (fifty milligrams) to be given over twenty four hours. CD: twenty.
Oxycodone 50mg/1ml solution for injection ampoules.
5 ampoules
70mg via syringe driver over 24 hours CD: Five
Strength in words and figures don’t match.
Dose is missing in oxycodone.
Dose in syringe?
