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Pre-assessment: “Distributing and dispensing drugs in the hospital”

23 August 2019 Sandrine von Grünigen

Before starting the lesson, test your knowledge on distributing and dipsensing the drugs in the hospital by answering this quizz!

For each question, you can choose one or more correct possible answers.

At the end of the lesson, you will then be able to assess your progression.

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Question 1 of 10

1. Question
A healthcare facility’s medication pathway is made up of:
- Two stages: prescribing and administering
- Three stages: dispensing, administering and therapeutic monitoring
- Four stages: prescribing, dispensing, administering and therapeutic monitoring
Question 2 of 10

2. Question
Therapeutic monitoring and evaluation of the patient is part of the role of:
- The nurse
- The physician
- The patient
- The pharmacist
Question 3 of 10

3. Question
Which of the following groups can perform pharmaceutical dispensing?
- Pharmacy assistants
- Pharmacists
- Nurses
- Physicians
Question 4 of 10

4. Question
Which of the following activities are part of pharmaceutical dispensing?
- Prescribing
- Analysing the prescription
- Preparing doses for administering
- Administering doses
- Providing advice about medicines
Question 5 of 10

5. Question
Pharmaceutical analysis consists of:
- Verifying that drugs are not out of stock
- Verifying that the prescription contains all the mandatory regulatory information
- Verifying that there are no contra-indications, drug–drug interactions or incompatibilities between the prescribed drugs
- Verifying that the patient will be able to pay for their medicines (in cost-recovery health systems)
Question 6 of 10

6. Question
Which of the following modes of dispensing drugs is the safest?
- Global dispensing
- Prescription-based dispensing
- Nominative dispensing
Question 7 of 10

7. Question
Which of the following statements describe individual nominative dispensing?
- It is based on maintaining sub-stocks on wards and in departments
- The central pharmacy ensures the preparation of the doses for administering
- Is appropriate for distributing drugs to wards and departments and to dispensing them directly to patients
- It can be organised using a full–empty system
- It is preceded by a prescription analysis carried out by the pharmacy
Question 8 of 10

8. Question
Which of the following statements describe global dispensing?
- It has the advantage of being more flexible when there is a new or changed prescription
- It requires significant human resources in terms of pharmacy technicians
- Doses are only checked by the nurses administering them
- Doses are check by pharmacy technicians and by nurses on the wards or in departments
- It is the safest means of dispensing drugs
Question 9 of 10

9. Question
Which of the following statements about dose preparation are correct?
- When drugs are collected from storerooms, it is recommended to verify the elements requiring a visual check
- Technologies which enable the bar code scanning of boxes of drugs make managing the medication pathway safer
- Doses do not have to be relabelled when drugs are repackaged
- When doses are labelled, they only require the drug name and dosage
Question 10 of 10

10. Question
Which of the following statements are correct?
- When drugs are dispensed directly to the patient, it is the dispenser’s duty to ensure that the patient fully understands all the information linked to their treatment
- A pharmacist’s advisory activity ceases once drugs have been distributed to clinical wards and departments
- A pharmacist should know all the therapeutic information linked to the medical products which they hold in stock
- There are four types of clinical pharmacy activity, beginning with information transmission and ending with pharmacists being fully embedded in clinical wards or departments

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