Prescription Medicines Explained

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email: john@medicalst.co.uk

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20 St Nicholas Crescent, York, North Yorkshire, YO23 3UZ - Phone/fax +44 (0) 1904 700917 - Email john@medicalst.co.uk

This highly interactive course is designed to enable delegates to understand the concepts behind the naming of trade and generic drugs. Delegates will learn how medicines are classified and will gain practical experience using MIMS. The course also deals with prescription transcriptions and drug related abbreviations.

The objectives of the course are to enable delegates to be able to:

explain the concept of trade and generic drug names;
recognise classifications of medicines;
identify routes of administration;
state the meaning of prescription abbreviations;
make more effective use of MIMS.

All delegates will be provided with a course manual and will be issued with a certificate upon completion of the course.

This course has been accredited by The OCN Credit 4 Learning and delegates can obtain credits for further learning. Click here for more details.

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Quotes about this course

"As I actually work in the dispensary rather than just creating the prescription I found the detailed explanation of how drugs work very useful."
"As a relatively new dispenser/receptionist a lot of my questions have been answered." Irene Reay

Prescription Medicines Explained

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