past paper

Question 1

AMTS

Answer 1

The abbreviated mental test score

Patient told an address at start of test and asked to recall at end

Question 2

Advanced decisions and the mental health act 1983

Answer 2

Patients held under the mental health act can have their advanced decision to refuse treatment overruled

Question 3

The mental capacity act 2005 and consent

Answer 3

Memory and communication abilities needed to consent

Question 4

NHS contractual framework

Answer 4

States that community pharmacists should give brief healthy lifestyle advice to patients collecting diabetes prescriptions

Question 5

Brief advice

Answer 5

Important to record when it has been given

Question 6

Covert medicines administration

Answer 6

Administered in a disguised format without the knowledge/ consent of the person receiving them

Question 7

Period pain, asthmatic 16 year old

Answer 7

Paracetamol tablets

Question 8

Stopping breastfeeding after 3 months

Answer 8

Start infant first milk and stop breastfeeding slowly

Question 9

Relationships at work

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Ways to overcome poor health literacy

Answer 10

Teach back
Signposting to information in different formats
Providing a leaflet
Providing a simplified version of information

Question 11

Factors affecting adolescents when developing health services

Answer 11

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

Question 12

The education approach

Answer 12

Approach to health promotion

Ensures people have the necessary information, knowledge and skills to make informed choices about their health

Question 13

BCTs

Answer 13

Behaviour change techniques

Small active ingredients that make the intervention effective in changing behaviour

Question 14

A defective product

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Isolation due to respiratory infection

Answer 15

Surgical mask and eye protection

Question 16

Authorised conditions for a special medicine

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Validation

Answer 17

Documentary evidence of validation shows that the system, equipment and process consistently perform as expected

Question 18

Transport company requirements

Answer 18

Maintenance of a cold chain
Security
Goods receipt
Spillage policy

Question 19

Cleaning equipment in extemporaneous dispensing

Answer 19

IMS - industrial methylated spirits

Question 20

Most likely microorganism to be found on paper and cardboard packaging

Answer 20

Bacillus spp.

Question 21

Final release process requirements

Answer 21

Label reconcilliation
Checks on device
Validated method
Approval of manufacturing conditions
Do not need results from sterility testing

Question 22

Reasons for CVADs (central venoous access devices)

Answer 22

Peripheral IV access cannot be initiated/ maintained
Patient has a history of being difficult to cannulate
Treatment rxed
Medication is a vesicant/ irritant

Question 23

Solutions for intrathecal injection

Answer 23

NEVER contain preservatives

Question 24

Why is Tc99m widely used for diagnostic scanning?

Answer 24

Short half life
Gamma emmitter
Decays to a stable isotope
Combines with a wide range of targeting tracers

Question 25

ADCs (antibody drug conjugate medicines)

Answer 25

Contain highly potent cytotoxic molecules whiich make them more hazardous to handle than normal mABs

Question 26

Displacement value

Answer 26

Volume of drug that displaces 1g pessary base