Key Terms
Admitting Order
a medication order writen by a physician on admission of a patient to the hospital; may or may not include a medication order
drug formulary
a list of approved medications for use within the hospical; this list is approved by the P&T Committee
Home Medications -
a patient's medications brought from home to continue use while in hospital
The Joint Commission
- an independent governing body that secs standards for quality parient care and safety in hospitals and other healchcare facilicies; this organization is responsible for the accreditation of hospitals
Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) Committee
- a committee of the hospital that reviews, approves, and revises the hospital's formulary of drugs and maincains the drug use policies of the hospital
automated medication dispensing system (AMDS)
a secure, locked storage cabinet of designated drugs on a nursing unit whose software can track the dispensing and administration of cach dose of medication to each parient
Electronic Health Record (EHR) -
computerized health information record to share patient information among authorized healthcare providers to better coordinate health care
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
- a committce of the hospital that ensures that appropriate protection is provided to patients using investigational drugs; sometimes referred to as the Human Use Committee
medical chart
- a hard copy or digital legal document that contains the clinical information that a hospital collects in-house and consists of patient identifying demograph-ics, hospital room number, physician notes, problem list, medication orders and list, nursing assessments, and discharge
Pick station
- an area of the inpacient pharmacy thar houses frequently prescribed formulary drugs in commercially available unit dose packaging, thus allowing efficient medication cart filling by more than one technician
Cart fill list
a daily printout of all parient profiles
eMAR
- an online record that documents the administration time of each drug to each patient by a nurse using barcode technology
intake record
- documentation by the nurse upon admission to the hospital
Medication order
- a prescription written in the hospital setting
policy and procedures manual
- an online or written, step-by-step set of instructions for pharmacists and technicians alike on all operations within the pharmacy department
Director of Pharmacy
also known as the Pharmacist in Charge (PIC) the chief executive officer of the hospital pharmacy depatment
floor stock
- medications stocked in a secured area at each nursing patient care station or floor
IV admixture
- a centralized pharmacy service that prepares IV, TPN, and hazardous prepararions in a stet-ile, cleanroom work environment
Nonformulary drug
- a drug not included on che hospital's drug formulary
Quality Assurance (QA)
a system of proce-dures, activities, feedback, and oversight that ensures that operational and quality standards are consistently met
discharge order
an order written by a physician that provides take-home instructions, including prescribed medications and doses, for a discharged patient
home infusion pharmacy
- a specialty phar macy set up particularly to serve home healthcare dispensing
investigational drug
- a drug used in clinical trials that has not yet been approved by the FDA for use in the general population, or a drug used for non-approved indications
par levels
- the minimum restock and maximum reorder levels for each drug on each nursing unit
STAT order
a medication order that is to be filled and sent to the patient care unit immediately