A prescription for a 5-year-old reads amoxicillin 1/4 of a 500 mg tablet every 8 hours for 5 days. The pharmacy stocks amoxicillin in both a chewable 125 mg tablet and suspension. What should you do?
A) Dispense either a chewable tablet or liquid form of the medication.
B) Consult with the pharmacist or authorized prescriber before changing the form of the medication.
C) Dispense the medication as written, instructing the parent to break the tablets into four pieces.
D) Dispense the medication as written, breaking the tablets prior to dispensing them.
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Q2: Chewable tablets should be
A) chewed.
B) broken in
Q3: Sustained-release medications must be
A) chewed.
B) crushed.
C) swallowed
Q4: Medications administered buccally are placed
A) under the
Q5: Medications administered transdermally are placed
A) under the
Q6: Based on this label, Amiodarone HClA
Q7: How should the patient take the azithromycin
Q8: Chemical and physical descriptions about a drug
Q9: Information about serious, possibly fatal, side effects
Q10: Conditions and situations under which a medication
Q11: The Precautions section of a package insert
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