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Foundations of Pharmacy Practice (3)

Course Description: This course aims to provide students with modern knowledge and skills related to drug orders and prescriptions (electronic, computer-printed, and handwritten), best practices for dispensing medications and related calculations, drug labeling, and patient education and counseling. The course also introduces students to aseptic techniques and the intravenous admixture program, concepts related to immediate drug compounding, and packaging and repackaging. Additionally, the course introduces students to controlled substance prescriptions, narcotics, and relevant laws and regulations, and investigational drugs in healthcare systems.
Credits: 2
Prerequisites: 213 PHP
Objectives of the course :

This course aims to introduce students to:
1. Medical prescriptions and medication orders.
2. Medication expenses and related calculations.
3. Affixing labels to medications.
4. Educating and advising patients.
5. Aseptic techniques and IV solution preparation program.
6. Concepts related to the immediate preparation of medications.
7. Packaging and repackaging of medicines.
8. Concepts related to experimental drugs and their role in healthcare systems.
9. Dispense controlled substances and narcotics in accordance with laws and regulations.

Course outputs :

Knowledge and understanding:
1.1 Description of Medical Prescriptions and Medication Orders, Their Types, and Best Practices for Writing Prescriptions.
1.2 Explanation of procedures and appropriate steps for dispensing medications and labeling them.
1.3 Description of pharmaceutical packaging and repacking, and storage conditions.
1.4 Discussion of patient counseling and interviewing principles in patient care settings.
1.5 Description of principles of sterilization, mixing of intravenous solutions, and immediate preparation of medications.
1.6 Recognize processes, concepts, and regulations related to investigational drugs, controlled substances, and narcotics.
Skills:
2.1 Correctly interpreting medical prescriptions and medication orders.
2.2 Performing dose calculations and... (text incomplete in document, reads: “Performing dose calculations and”).

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  • Last updated: 2026-05-14

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