past paper Flashcards
AMTS
The abbreviated mental test score
Patient told an address at start of test and asked to recall at end
Advanced decisions and the mental health act 1983
Patients held under the mental health act can have their advanced decision to refuse treatment overruled
The mental capacity act 2005 and consent
Memory and communication abilities needed to consent
NHS contractual framework
States that community pharmacists should give brief healthy lifestyle advice to patients collecting diabetes prescriptions
Brief advice
Important to record when it has been given
Covert medicines administration
Administered in a disguised format without the knowledge/ consent of the person receiving them
Period pain, asthmatic 16 year old
Paracetamol tablets
Stopping breastfeeding after 3 months
Start infant first milk and stop breastfeeding slowly
Relationships at work
Previous relationships affect how we react to new people
Supportive relationships can help to manage stress at work
The company/ organisation can influence the nature of workplace relationships
There are cultural differences in how people view working relationships
Effective relationships = retain staff for longer
Ways to overcome poor health literacy
Teach back
Signposting to information in different formats
Providing a leaflet
Providing a simplified version of information
Factors affecting adolescents when developing health services
Health behaviours that start in adolescence can persist into adulthood
May develop at different rates
Neurological development continues into early adulthood with implications for adolescent cognition and mental health
The education approach
Approach to health promotion
Ensures people have the necessary information, knowledge and skills to make informed choices about their health
BCTs
Behaviour change techniques
Small active ingredients that make the intervention effective in changing behaviour
A defective product
Causes damage to property
Does not work when measured against an appropriate reference to safety
Product of poor quality
Safety not what we’re entitled to expect
Isolation due to respiratory infection
Surgical mask and eye protection
Authorised conditions for a special medicine
Formulated in accordance with a specification from an authorised prescriber
Used for an individual as direct by the prescriber
Meet a specific clinical need
Manufactured under a special manufacturing licence
Validation
Documentary evidence of validation shows that the system, equipment and process consistently perform as expected
Transport company requirements
Maintenance of a cold chain
Security
Goods receipt
Spillage policy
Cleaning equipment in extemporaneous dispensing
IMS - industrial methylated spirits
Most likely microorganism to be found on paper and cardboard packaging
Bacillus spp.
Final release process requirements
Label reconcilliation Checks on device Validated method Approval of manufacturing conditions Do not need results from sterility testing
Reasons for CVADs (central venoous access devices)
Peripheral IV access cannot be initiated/ maintained
Patient has a history of being difficult to cannulate
Treatment rxed
Medication is a vesicant/ irritant
Solutions for intrathecal injection
NEVER contain preservatives
Why is Tc99m widely used for diagnostic scanning?
Short half life
Gamma emmitter
Decays to a stable isotope
Combines with a wide range of targeting tracers
ADCs (antibody drug conjugate medicines)
Contain highly potent cytotoxic molecules whiich make them more hazardous to handle than normal mABs
Displacement value
Volume of drug that displaces 1g pessary base
