Mr. Peppers, a patient well-known to your pharmacy, comes to the counter with a new prescription. This patient has 12 dispensing records (Cymbalta 60mg cap and Effexor XR 150mg cap). The prescriber needs to be contacted based on the drug-drug interaction.
This exercise assesses the student’s ability to do the following: (1) dispense appropriate medication, (2) identify patient allergy to prescribed drug, (3) contact prescriber for appropriate alternative antibiotic. When consulted about the allergy the prescriber responds “Oh, I didn’t know that. Thanks for contacting me and letting me know about this. Change to Zpak, you […]
This exercise assesses the student’s ability to do the following: (1) dispense appropriate medication, (2) identify and fix a dosing error that would otherwise result in a toxic overdose. AJ approaches your pharmacy counter to get a prescription filled. He is traveling to Honduras in 5 days for one month and his doctor wrote a […]
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