What Is Form K And Poison Book In Pharmacy

Form K is a document sold by the pharmacists council of Nigeria (PCN). PCN is responsible for the regulation of training and practice of the pharmacy profession.

What Is Form K

Form K is a book. It is sold only to community pharmacies. It is a book that is used to document sales and prescription of control drugs (CD) in Nigeria.

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Control drugs are drugs that require a medical prescription before a pharmacist can dispense. They are also called poison. This is because little dose adjustment, prolonged use or abuse can have damaging effects to the user.

Form K

When a patient comes with a prescription for a CD, the pharmacist interprets the result. After dispensing, the prescription is kept in the poison book and the details of the patients are documented in the form K.

The following data are documented;

Date of dispensing

Name of the patient

Name of prescriber

Name of the drug and quantity

Signature of the patient

Signature of the pharmacist

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What Is Poison Book

Poison book is a book for dispensing CDs. It is the same thing with form K. Form K is called disposal of a poison book.