MEDICINES

MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT - a recruitment and selection tool

Candidate Name: __________________________________

Assessment Date: _________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Instructions:
You have 20 minutes to complete the assessment
Please show your calculations/working out in the space provided
Read the questions carefully and take time to check your answers after completion
Please note Calculators are NOT permitted

1. Your patient has been prescribed 1.2g benzyl penicillin. The vials available are
600mg. How many ampoules do you need to administer?



2. Your patient requires 140mg gentamicin. The ampoules available contain
40mg/ml. How many millilitres do you need to administer?



3. A patient has been prescribed gentamicin 2mg/kg. Your patient weighs 50Kg. The
ampoules are available are gentamicin40mg/ml. Calculate how many millilitres you
need to administer.

4. Your patient has been prescribed 500ml 5% glucose over 6 hours. How many
millilitres per hour you would set a volumetric pump for?




5. Your patient has been prescribed 1000ml 0.9% sodium chloride over 8 hours.
Calculate the drips per minute using a manual giving set which has a drop factor of
20 drops/ml.




6. If a prescribed drug is unavailable out of hours, name 2 things you would do:




7. List the four main actions you would take if you made a drug error:




8. Prior to the administration of a controlled drug, e.g. diamorphine, name 3 of the
main checking procedures before administering.

9. When administering prescribed medication, what must be checked in relation to

the drug?




10. Your patient is set up an infusion of insulin 50 units of actrapid in 50mls 0.9%
sodium chloride. Your patients blood sugar is 12.8mmol/L.

Use the following sliding scale to determine the number of ml/hr the syringe pump
should be set for.

Test Stick Glucose (mmols per litre) Sliding scale units/mls per hour
(50 units/50 mls)
<3.9
0.5
4 - 6.9
1
7 9.9
2
10 14.9
3
15.19.9
4
>20
5