Team Communication and Documentation
Communicate a prescribing decision, change or monitoring need accurately to carers and healthcare professionals and preserve the record.
How to prepare for the PSA
Combine patient-centred prescribing judgement with fast BNF navigation, reliable calculations, complete prescriptions and explicit monitoring and communication.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Information for another professional should state the medicine decision, reason, relevant patient risk and required action or follow-up.
Exam cue: State what changed, why it changed and what must happen next.
Concept 2
Transitions of care require accurate communication of starts, stops, dose changes and unresolved monitoring needs.
Exam cue: Make responsibility and timescale explicit when follow-up is required.
Concept 3
Prescribing decisions and reasons should be documented clearly enough for the next clinician to continue safe care.
Exam cue: Separate information the recipient needs now from background detail already in the record.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Communicating the new list without explaining a clinically important change.
Guardrail: Do not let a familiar medicine, reference search or calculator output replace patient-specific safety checks and escalation.
Leaving monitoring responsibility or timing ambiguous.
Guardrail: Do not let a familiar medicine, reference search or calculator output replace patient-specific safety checks and escalation.
Assuming verbal handover removes the need for accurate documentation.
Guardrail: Do not let a familiar medicine, reference search or calculator output replace patient-specific safety checks and escalation.
Memory anchors
Decision
State the medicine decision or change clearly.
Reason
Record the clinical reason and important risk behind the decision.
Next Action
Name the follow-up action, responsible person and timescale.
Care Transition
Reconcile and communicate starts, stops and dose changes across settings.
Document
Preserve an accurate record even when the decision was also handed over verbally.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
A severe penicillin anaphylaxis is confirmed. What should be documented?
A DOAC is withheld for surgery. What must the handover include?
Answer all questions to submit.
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Move forward only after this module is stable.
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