Drug handling: Learning exercises

Last updated: Tuesday, December 12, 2023


There is a quiz to help reinforce your learning about drug handling here. You can look things up if you need to. 



Real clinical problems

Look at these real clinical problems and decide what further questions you’d ask and where you would look for information.
When you’re ready, here are our suggested answers. Do you agree? If you want to, you could talk to your tutor or a colleague about them or record them as a CPD exercise.

Additional learning


There are a series of five short online tutorials about drug handling produced by HandWritten Tutorials. We recommend that you watch these videos, which are only five minutes each, because they reinforce and build on your learning from this site. The topics covered are: