Pharmacy History
What are the three major eras of pharmacy in chronological order?
What are the Traditional, Scientific, and Clinical Eras?
This historical term describes a person who prepared and sold medicines—or the shop where medicines were prepared.
What is an apothecary?
APhA stands for this organization.
What is the American Pharmacists Association?
Counts medications and enters prescription information.
Who is the pharmacy technician
Nuclear pharmacy technicians work with this special type of medication.
What are radiopharmaceuticals/radioactive medications?
Before the 1920s, many pharmacists learned the profession using this type of hands-on training under an experienced pharmacist
What is an apprenticeship?
Aspirin, insulin, and amoxicillin are all examples of this general term for medicinal products.
What is pharmaceutical
PTEC stands for this organization.
What is the Pharmacy Technician Educators Council?
Performs the final verification of a prescription.
Who is the Pharmacist
This specialized area of pharmacy requires technicians to understand radiation safety, contamination prevention, storage, handling, and disposal.
What is nuclear pharmacy?
This U.S. organization is commonly credited with establishing the first formal pharmacy technician training.
What is the United States military/Department of Defense?
This official reference establishes standards for medication identity, strength, purity, quality, testing, preparation, storage, and labeling.
What is a pharmacopeia?
This Oklahoma agency regulates pharmacy technicians, pharmacists, and pharmacies.
What is the Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy?
May participate in medication inventory management.
Who are both pharmacists and technicians?
Before preparing hazardous or chemotherapy medications, a technician must complete this.
What is specialized education, training, and competency assessment?
During this era, chemistry, pharmacology, research, standardization, and pharmaceutical manufacturing became increasingly important.
What is the Scientific Era?
The letters MTM stand for this pharmacy service.
Unlike a professional organization, this type of organization can enforce pharmacy laws, conduct inspections, issue registrations or licenses, investigate complaints, and discipline licensees or registrants.
What is a State Board of Pharmacy/regulatory agency
Uses clinical judgment to counsel a patient about medication therapy.
Who is the pharmacist?
Hazardous-drug procedures are designed to protect these three things.
What are the patient, employee, and environment?
During this era, pharmacists moved beyond primarily preparing medications and became increasingly involved in patient care, counseling, monitoring therapy, and clinical decision-making.
What is the Clinical Era?
The goal of this service is to identify medication-related problems and help ensure a patient's medications are safe, effective, appropriate, and used correctly.
What is Medication Therapy Management
APhA and PTEC support pharmacy professionals or education, while the Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy has this primary responsibility.
What is protecting the public by regulating pharmacy practice?
This pharmacy professional is responsible for supervising pharmacy technicians and ensuring delegated technician duties are performed appropriately.
Who is the pharmacist
This organization should be consulted to determine current requirements for working as a pharmacy technician in Oklahoma.
What is the Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy?