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The Pharmaceutical Agent Order
Prescription
• An oral or written record of a physician’s order to pharmacist to dispense medication to patient.
Components of a Prescription – Written Form• prescriber’s name and title (MD, DDS, DMD, DO,
etc.)• prescriber’s office address• prescriber’s phone number• patient’s name and address• patient’s age • date on which prescription was written• Superscription, or the letters Rx – Latin for recipe
or “take thou”• Inscription, the actual body of the prescription
indicating the drug name, strength and dosage form
Components of a Prescription – Written Form• Signature, not to be confused with the
prescriber’s signed name; clearly written and understandable instructions
• Subscription, the quantity of the drug to be dispensed to the patient
• refill instructions
• prescriber’s signature
• prescriber’s DEA number
Physician’s Order
• Form to order medication for the hospitalized patient
Components of a Physician’s Order• Patient’s Name and hospital number
• patient’s room or ward location
• attending physician
• patient’s date of birth
• allergies or sensitivities to drugs, foods, and other substances
• Diagnosis
• date of admission
• patient’s condition
Components of a Physician’s Order• Services to be performed(i.e. tests, activities, diet, etc.)• medications ordered• strength of each medication ordered• dosage form specified to avoid any questions regarding
the form to be administered – most drugs come prepared in more than one dosage form; patient’s condition often determines route of administration
• directions for use or frequency of administration for each drug nurse’s or physician’s signature with date and time of entry on the physician’s order.
Oral Prescriptions
• Phoned in – usually done by a prescriber known to pharmacists. Not applicable to schedule II drugs.
Components of an Oral Prescription
• Doctor’s name
• Doctor’s phone number
• Patient’s name
• Patient’s address
• Patient’s phone number
Components of an Oral Prescription
• DEA number
• Name of drug
• Quantity of drug
• Directions
• Refill instructions
Prescription Label
• An identification label placed on the outside of the bottle.
Components of a Prescription Label
• a prescription serial number (referred to as the RX number) and the date the prescription was filled
• the patient’s full name
• clearly typed (or printed) instructions for taking the medication
• the first word of he directions should infer the route of administration
Components of a Prescription Label
• name of the drug (labeling), unless specifically requested by prescriber not to label
• pharmacist’s initials and initials of the tech preparing the drug for dispensing
• prescriber’s name• drug’s expiration date (usually can be obtained from
stock bottle, except in case of freshly reconstituted medication according to manufacturer’s recommendation
Components of a Prescription Label• number of refills left available, if any, or no
refills, if none
• additional labels, “strip labels”, accessory labels, informing patient of particular way to take medication assuring optimal effect
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