Medications
This class of medications, including drugs like Lisinopril and Enalapril, is primarily used to treat hypertension.
What is an ACE Inhibitor?
This federal agency is responsible for enforcing the Controlled Substances Act and must be notified of any significant loss of medication.
What is the DEA?
This strategy uses capitalized letters to help differentiate look-alike/sound-alike drugs, such as vinBLAStine and vinCRIStine.
What is Tall Man Lettering?
A prescription for "1 tab po qid x 10 days" requires this total number of tablets to be dispensed.
What is 40?
This is the standard conversion for one tablespoon into milliliters .
What is 15 mL?
Patients taking this anticoagulant must be counseled to maintain a consistent intake of Vitamin K-rich foods like spinach and kale.
What is Warfarin
Under the DSCSA, pharmacies must maintain records of these "3 Ts" for six years to track the transaction of prescription drugs.
What are Transaction Information, History, and Statement?
This is the FDA’s voluntary program for reporting adverse effects, product quality issues, or use errors with medications.
What is MedWatch?
In an NDC number like 00456-0123-10, the final two digits (10) represent this specific information.
What is the Package Size?
This type of pharmacy reference book is standard for determining if a generic drug is bioequivalent to a brand-name drug.
What is the Orange Book?
This is the therapeutic classification for Zolpidem, commonly used for the short-term treatment of insomnia.
What is a Sedative-Hypnotic?
According to the Controlled Substances Act, a prescription for a Schedule II drug has this many allowed refills.
What is zero?
When a technician sees a "Therapeutic Duplication" alert during order entry, it indicates the patient is taking two drugs from this.
What is the same drug class?
This Latin abbreviation is found on a prescription to indicate that the medication should be administered "in each eye."
What is OU
To calculate the Fahrenheit temperature from 20°C, you use the formula (20 x 1.8) + 32, which results in this temperature.
What is 68°F?
To ensure stability, a reconstituted bottle of Amoxicillin/Clavulanate must be stored here.
What is the refrigerator?
This specific DEA form is used by a pharmacy to document the destruction of controlled substances.
What is DEA Form 41?
To prevent 10-fold dosing errors, the ISMP recommends never using this after a whole number
What is a trailing zero?
If a patient is prescribed 250 mg of a medication that is available as 125 mg/5 mL, this is the volume of one dose in milliliters.
What is 10 mL?
This is the weight in milligrams of one grain, often used in older prescriptions for Aspirin or Phenobarbital.
What is 65 mg (or 64.8 mg)?
This auxiliary label must be applied to a prescription for Doxycycline due to the risk of severe sunburn.
What is "Avoid Sunlight/Photosensitivity"?
The Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act sets a daily sales limit of this many grams for pseudoephedrine.
What is 3.6 grams?
These types of medications, such as Heparin or Insulin, are noted for having a narrow therapeutic index and a high risk of patient harm if used incorrectly.
What are High-Alert Medications?
This is the term for a request sent by the pharmacy to a third-party payer (insurance) to determine if a claim will be paid.
What is Adjudication?
This level of FDA recall is issued when there is a reasonable probability that the use of a product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.
What is a Class I Recall?