Prescribing Skills Workbook

Prescribing Skills Workbook is the ideal way for students and junior doctors to practice prescribing. The book features 45 exercises, each one carefully chosen to test the reader’s grasp of a key principle, such as managing a patient on warfarin. Each exercise begins with a short clinical scenario; next, the reader is invited to fill in a realistic, life-size chart in response; an answer section follows containing the correctly completed chart, together with a summary of the main clinical and educational aspects of the exercise. A unique resource for medical students and junior doctors to improve their understanding of the principles of safe prescribing and practice filling out a drug chart correctly 45 life-size charts replicate the experience of completing a prescription, with 45 corresponding charts filled out correctly to compare, identify and rectify errors DRUGCHARTS mnemonic systematically highlights the key items to consider when prescribing Key points boxes highlight the main learning objectives Introductory chapter includes tips for safe prescribing

Table of Contents:
Introduction Exercise 1 Basic skills Exercise 2 Maintenance fluids Exercise 3 Awkward medications Exercise 4 Preoperative assessment Exercise 5 Postoperative complications Exercise 6 Postoperative pain relief Exercise 7 Vomiting Exercise 8 Renal failure Exercise 9 Chest pain Exercise 10 Warfarin interactions Exercise 11 Dysphagia Exercise 12 Anaphylaxis Exercise 13 Shortness of breath Exercise 14 Fluid prescribing in hypotension Exercise 15 Paediatric fluid prescribing Exercise 16 Fluid prescribing in epigastric pain Exercise 17 Prescribing blood Exercise 18 Electrolyte replacement Exercise 19 Heparin infusions Exercise 20 Paracetamol overdose Exercise 21 Hyperkalaemia Exercise 22 Hypovolaemic shock Exercise 23 Preoperative assessment in diabetes Exercise 24 Prescribing in pregnancy Exercise 25 Breastfeeding Exercise 26 Poor oral intake Exercise 27 Atrial fibrillation Exercise 28 Acute coronary syndrome Exercise 29 Alcohol withdrawal Exercise 30 Antibiotics Exercise 31 Regular medications Exercise 32 Nil-by-mouth patient Exercise 33 Warfarin therapy Exercise 34 Prescribing gentamicin Exercise 35 Headache Exercise 36 Paediatric prescribing Exercise 37 Palliative care Exercise 38 Sore throat Exercise 39 Thromboprophylaxis Exercise 40 Pain management Exercise 41 Oliguria Exercise 42 Confusion in the elderly Exercise 43 Analgesia Exercise 44 Insomnia Exercise 45 Unresponsive patient

About the Author :
Daniel Norton MBBS BSc (Hons) FY2 Foundation Doctor, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust, Cambridge, UK Nicholas Norton MBBS MSc DTM&H MRCP CT2 Core Medical Trainee, Southampton General Hospital, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK Jane Caisley BPharm MRPharmS  Formulary Pharmacist, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, Maidstone, UK Rosie Furner BSc (Hons) MSc IP MRPharmS Community Services Pharmacist, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, Bexhill, UK Elizabeth Hamilton MBChB BSc (Hons) MRCP (UK) MRCP (Acute) PGDipMedEd Consultant in Acute and General Medicine, Norfolk & Norwich Univ Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich, UK