Pharmaceutics III
A: Choose the most suitable option each carry 0.5 marks (10)
1. What is the primary responsibility of a hospital's pharmacy department?
a. Administering medical treatments
b. Coordinating hospital administration
c. Providing medications to in-patients and out-patients
d. Conducting medical research
2. In a hospital, who typically heads the pharmacy department?
a. Medical Superintendent
b. Chief Surgeon
c. Hospital Administrator
d. Professionally competent, legally qualified pharmacist
3. What is the main goal of the hospital pharmacy's administrative services?
a. Develop policies for surgical procedures
b. Plan and coordinate departmental activities
c. Schedule and supervise nursing services
d. Manage dietary services
4. Which department of a hospital primarily deals with the removal or replacement of
diseased organs or tissues?
a. Gynecology Department
b. Dermatology Department
c. Surgery Department
d. Neurology Department
5. What does the Urology Department in a hospital primarily investigate and treat?
a. Disorders of the nervous system
b. Skin-related diseases
c. Kidney and bladder-based problems
d. Cardiovascular diseases
6. Which type of hospital is often linked to a medical school or university and provides
clinical instructions to medical students?
a. District Hospital
b. Specialized Hospital
c. Teaching Hospital
d. General Hospital
7. What distinguishes a clinic from a hospital?
a. Ability to admit and care for inpatients
b. Presence of an emergency department
c. Nonprofit basis
d. Only provides outpatient services
8. What is the primary goal of the pharmacy's in-patient services in a hospital?
a. Dispensing medications to out-patients
b. Maintaining patients' medication profiles
c. Providing drug information to doctors
d. Controlling and dispensing intravenous fluids
9. Which pharmacy service involves the review of prescriptions and dispensing medications
to outpatients?
a. Administrative services
b. In-patient services
c. Drug Information Services
d. Out-patient services
10. What is the role of the hospital pharmacy's purchasing and inventory services?
a. Administering medical treatments
b. Purchasing, receiving, storing, and distributing drugs
c. Coordinating educational programs
d. Manufacturing and packaging medications
11. What is the primary advantage of the hospital formulary in terms of therapeutics?
a. Economic benefits
b. Educational benefits
c. Availability of the most efficient products
d. Deprivation of physician's choice
12. What risk is associated with the hospital formulary system in the absence of a
pharmacist?
a. Reduction in drug costs
b. Deprivation of physician's choice
c. Increased volume of drug purchases
d. Purchase of inferior quality drugs
13. What is the primary characteristic of an inpatient?
a. Receives medical treatment without hospital admission
b. Stays in the hospital overnight or for an indeterminate time
c. Receives ambulatory care services
d. Receives treatment for minor health problems
14. How is outpatient care commonly referred to?
a. Inpatient care
b. Ambulatory care
c. Emergency care
d. Tertiary care
15. What is the main responsibility of the nurse regarding inpatient medication orders?
a. Dispensing medication to outpatients
b. Administering medication to inpatients
c. Compounding medications
d. Labeling medications for inpatients
16. What types of prescriptions are generally received in outpatient pharmacy?
a. Ambulatory patients
b. Emergency patients
c. Inpatient discharges
d. All of the above
17. What role do pharmacists play in hospitals and health systems regarding medication
safety?
a. Administering medications to patients
b. Ensuring safe and effective use of medicines
c. Conducting medical diagnoses
d. Managing hospital finances
18. What is a pharmacist's responsibility in developing hospital policies related to medication
safety?
a. Only legal duties
b. Professional duty
c. Moral duty
d. Legal, moral, and professional duties
19. What is considered a medication error?
a. Therapeutically inappropriate drugs or doses
b. Administration of a correct dose according to physician's order
c. Failure to administer any prescribed medication
d. Use of over-the-counter medications
20. What is the role of a pharmacist in preventing medication errors?
a. Administering medications to patients
b. Checking prescriptions and ensuring safe medication use
c. Providing medical diagnoses
d. Managing hospital finances
B: Attempt any four questions each carry 5 marks. (20)
1. What is mean by In Patient and Out Patients?
2. Write down the types of specialized hospitals
3. Define hospital formulary.
4. Enlist the advantages of formulary.
5. Define unit dose dispensing.
6. How many prescription types are received in outpatient pharmacy?
7. Enlist three recommendations which must be consider for safe use of medication in
hospitals?
8. Define hospital pharmacy.
9. Write two advantages of unit dose dispensing system in hospital.
10. Enlist two examples of wrong preparation error.
C: Attempt any two questions each carry 10 marks. (20)
1. Write down the role of pharmacy in the hospital.
2. Write down about hospital pharmacy with its Aims & Objectives.
3. Explain medication error along with their types.
4. Explain distribution methods for hospital medicines with their classification
