Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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A Prescription is an order for medication issued by a
physician, dentist, veterinarian or other properly
licensed medical practitioner. Prescription designate a
specific medication and dosage to be administered to a
particular patient at a specified time.
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Rational Prescribing
• Determine the
appropiate drug
dosing regimen
• Devise a plan for
monitoring drug,s
action and dtermine
the end point of
therapy
• Plant of program of
patient education
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Legal Classification of medication
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Name :
Form Address :
License of practice :
Bandung, ………….
R/
Pro :
Age :
Address : 5
The component parts of a prescription :
1. Patient information
2. Date
3. R/ symbol or Superscription
4. Medication prescribed or Inscription
5. Dispensing direction to pharmacist or Subscription
6. Directions for patient or Signa (to be placed on label)
7. Refill, special labeling and/or other instructions
8. Prescriber’s signature, address and other pertinent
information
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1. Patient information
- The full name
- Address
- Age and/or weight
2. Date
The time they are written and received and filled in the
pharmacy.
Important for the medication record of the patient.
Drug abuse control < 6 months after the date prescribed.
3. R/ = symbol or superscription
Contraction of the Latin verb recipe
Meaning “take thou” or you take
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4. Medication Prescribed or Inscription
The body of the prescription order
Contain : the name and quantities of the prescribed
ingredients (the symbol g or ml often elimited)
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5. Dispensing direction to pharmacist or Subscription
Consist :
- Direction to the pharmacist for preparing the prescription
(to designate the dosage form as tablet, capsule etc.
- The number of dosage units to be suplied
Example :
- m . F . Caps . dtd . No XXIV
(mix and make capsule. Dispense 24 such dose)
- ft . Supp . No. XII (make 12 suppositories)
- m . Ft . Ungt (mix and make ointment)
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6. Direction for patient or Signatura
Consist of :
- number of dosage unit each time
- frequency of administration
- time of administration
- route of administration
Example :
- Tab II . q . 4h (take two tablet every four hours)
- Caps 1 . 4xd . Pc & h . c (take one capsule four times a
day after meals and at bed time )
- Instill gtts II od (instill two drops into the right eye)
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The direction the label of the container
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Example of Latin and English Prescription Abbreviation
• Marry Jones
1114 Grady Avenue
Athens, Georgia 123456
2. Date : 5-16-06
3. R/
4. Codeine Sulfate Tabs 30 mg
5. Dispense tabs No.12
6. Sign. Tab i q 6h prn pain
7. Refills : 0 Label : yes
8. John Brown, MD (signature)
9. 1600 Main Street
Atlanta Georgia
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Patient’s name : Marry Jones Date : 5-16-06
Address : 1114 Grady Avenue
Refill : 1234
Label :
John Brown, MD
1600 Main Street
Atlanta Georgia
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PHYSICIAN’S PRESCRIPTION
In Indonesia
Name :
Specialist : Prescriber information
Address :
License of Practice
Bandung,………2006 Date
R/ Superscription
Ampicillin.500mg caps No.XXIV Inscription
Subscription
S.4. d. d. caps I a.c. Signatura
Name :
Age : Patient information
Address : 15
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The Prescribtion
• The superscription includes the date the prescription order is written;
the name, address, weight, and age of the patient; and the Rx.
• The body of the prescription, or inscription, contains the name and
amount or strength of the drug to be dispensed, or the name and
strength of each ingredient to be compounded.
• The subscription is the instruction to the pharmacist, usually
consisting of a short sentence such as: "make a solution," "mix and
place into 30 capsules," or "dispense 30 tablets."
• The signa or "Sig" is the instruction for the patient as to how to take
the prescription, interpreted and transposed onto the prescription
label by the pharmacist.
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In the hospital setting
11/13/07
10.30 a.m
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CLASSES OF PRESCRIPTION
1. Formula officinales ( Precompounded )
2. Formula Magistrales ( Compounded )
1. Precompounded
• name of preparation ; Amoxycillin, Intermoxil
• dosage form i.e.tablet, capsule, syrup, ointment
• single dose
• frequency of administration
• duration of therapy
R/ Acetaminophen 250 mg
Chlorpheniramin maleate 2 mg
Dextrametorphan HBr 10 mg
Sach. Lactis q.s.
M.f.pulv dtd No.IX
S.3.d.d pulv.1
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Writing a prescription order ◄▬ select the drug :
1. Individual patient
2. Dose
3. Dosage form
4. Route of administration
5. Duration of medication
6. No or minimum adverse drug interaction
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Rasional Prescribing :
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1. Each ingredient's name shall have a separate line
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2. Each line begin with capital letter
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4. Name of ingredients come first, the dosage form last.
R/ Promethazine Syrup........
R/ Promethazine Injectio......
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5. Latin is regularly employed for the name of the ingredients and for the
directions for compounding, when in doubt as to the correct Latin expression
write in English.
6. When writing for more than the ordinary dose of the potent drug, as for
R/Strychnine Hydrochloride 10 mg. ( initial ) !
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SOLID DOSAGE FORMS LIQUID DOSAGE FORMS
m. f. pulv. No. xx M. D. S. 3 d. d. c. I.
mf = misce fac
m. f pulv. d. t. d. no. xx.
d. t. d. da Tales Dosis M. D. S. gutt. nasal
m. f. pulv. d. t. d. no. xx M. D. S. gutt. auric
da im caps
m. f. caps. d. t. d. no. xx. M. D. S. gutt. Opth
d. in caps d. t. d. no. xx. M. D. S. collyrium
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THE SIGNATURE consisting of direction to the patien, which are to be
written on the label.
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TERIMA KASIH
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