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A patient asks for your advice about switching from traditional cigarette smoking to electronic cigarettes. The electronic cigarette they have bought is a disposable 2mL device, which contains 20mg/mL of nicotine. When smoking a traditional cigarette, a typical user will inhale 2mg of nicotine per cigarette. How many traditional cigarettes would the 2mL electronic cigarette device be equivalent to?

You receive a prescription from the dermatology ward, which asks you to prepare 300g of Tar Pomade. Tar Pomade contains 6%w/v coal tar solution and 2%w/w salicylic acid in an emulsifying ointment base. How many grams of salicylic acid is required to make this preparation?

A patient who weighs 48kg is prescribed paracetamol 500mg dispersible tablets and they dissolve ONE 500mg tablet in 50mL of water. What is the paracetamol concentration in %w/v of the resulting solution?

A patient is admitted to hospital after taking an overdose of citalopram tablets. Their blood plasma concentration is measured at 3200ng/L. If citalopram has a half-life of 35 hours, how many hours will it take for the plasma concentration to fall to a safe level of 800ng/L?

A three-year-old child weighing 14kg is started on amlodipine for hypertension as a complication of cardiovascular disease. Amlodipine is available as a 5 mg/5 mL sugar free suspension. The patient will be prescribed the lowest starting dose, as detailed in the BNF extract below. How many millilitres of amlodipine sugar free suspension should be prescribed for each dose? Give your answer to ONE (1) decimal place. Extract from Online BNF

A patient is admitted to A&E and prescribed meropenem 1g ampoules with instructions for nurses to administer ONE (1g) ampoule THREE times a day for SEVEN days. One 1g dose is given to the patient in A&E before the patient is transferred to another ward. How many ampoules should the pharmacy department send to the new ward to complete the seven-day course?

What is the weight in milligrams of mometasone in a 100g tube of mometasone 0.1%w/w cream?

Zone of proximal development (ZPD) is Vygotsky’s term for:

Three-year-old Ashley is putting a jigsaw puzzle together, and, as is typical of her age, she:

When 4-year-old Jared plays, he often talks to himself. This form of self-talk is used for self-regulation. Developmentalists call this: