Prescription Writing Exercise 


This is designed more as a prescription writing exercise than a tutorial on therapeutics.
It should familiarise you with the use of GP prescription forms (FP10s)

Using standard G.P prescription forms (FP10), write a prescription (if you deem one necessary)
for each of the following patients. State the dose and total quantity of each drug required. 
    

  1. A 3 year old child with acute wheezy bronchitis.


  2. A 7 year old child with otitis media.


  3. A 40 year old labourer who has developed severe backache and sciatica and is 
 unable to work.


  4. A middle-aged housewife requiring another 6 months supply of her progesterone only  pill.


  5. An adolescent who requires treatment for his fairly bad facial acne.


  6. A 17 year old girl with awful dysmenorrhoea.


  7. An elderly man with hard wax in his left ear making him deaf.


  8. A 20 year old man with recent cough, pyrexia, dyspnoea and yellow sputum.


  9. A depressed middle-aged housewife who has at last managed to bring her 
fairly severe symptoms, including sleep disturbance for the last 6 weeks, to you.


  10. A 60 year old man with acute gout.


  11.  A 68 year old patient with a previous M.I. and now acute L.V.F.
 You successfully treat the L.V.F. and admit him to hospital. A week later 
 you see him at home and he has been put on medication to help prevent a 
 recurrence of his L.V.F.  Write him a prescription for two or three of 
 the drugs he may have been sent home with.


  12.  A 20 year old female patient with cystitis.


  13.  A 20 year old female patient with apparent monilial vaginitis.


  14.  A 60 year old lady with a clean but large (5cm x 8cm) varicose ulcer on her ankle.


  15.  A 6 year old boy with acute conjunctivitis - and thread worms!


  16.  A new patient requiring follow-on repeat prescriptions for her angina and 
 blood pressure treatment. (Amlodipine, Bendrofluazide, GTN, Atenolol 
- and anything else you feel suitable!)


  17.  A 50  year old patient with a flare-up of her psoriasis.


  18.  A 45 year old housewife who is requesting a tonic.


  19.  An 18 month old baby with acute diarrhoea.


  20.  An adolescent boy with athlete's foot and what looks like a nasty streptococcal 
     sore throat.


  21.  A patient, terminally ill with carcinoma of the breast with bony metastases 
     and much pain.






                            This tutorial provided by - Andrew Crawshaw - Mevagissey - 2004


 

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