Assignment Task: You received a prescription of levothyroxine tablets for a patient with hypothyroidism which will need to take this medication for life. The patient must take 25 mcg split into two doses; i.e., 12.5 mcg twice daily (bid) taken before meals for the 1 week. Then 25 mcg qd for another week. The patient will take 50 mcg qd thereafter. You only have 25 mcg scored tablets available in the pharmacy. Answer the following questions.
Q1. How many tablets will you dispense for the patient to cover his/her need for the 1st month (30 days)?
Q2. What "patient instructions" will you put on the label of the drug container?
Q3. How much total quantity of levothyroxine drug (API) would the patient have received for the 1st month?
Q4. How many tablets will you dispense for the patient in the next month (30 days)?