Key Terms
a medication order written by a physician on admission of a patient to the hospital; may or may not include a medication order
What is admitting order?
an online or written, step-by-step ser of instructions for pharmacists and technicians alike on all operations within the pharmacy department
What is the Policy and Procedure (P&P) Manual?
a secure, locked storage cabinet of designated drugs on a nursing unit whose software can track the dispensing and administration of each dose of medication to each patient
What is an automated medication dispensing system (AMDS)
documentation by the nurse upon admission to the hospital
What is intake record?
a system of proce-dures, activities, feedback, and oversight that ensures that operational and quality standards are consistently met
What is quality assurance (QA)?
a patient's medications brought from home to continue use while in the hospital
What is home medications (home meds)?
computerized health information record to share patient information among authorized healthcare providers to better coordinate health care
What is an electronic health record (EHR)?
a committee of the hospital that ensures that appropriate protection is provided to patients using investigational drugs; sometimes referred to as the Human Use Committee
What is Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
an area of the inparient pharmacy that houses frequently prescribed formulary drugs in commercially available unit dose packaging, thus allowing efficient medication cart filling by more than one technician
What is a pick station?
an order written by a physician that provides take-home instructions, including prescribed medications and doses, for a discharged patient
What is a discharge order?
an independent governing body that sets standards for quality patient care and safety in hospitals and other healthcare facilities; this organization is responsible for the accreditation of hospitals
What is the Joint Commission?
a hard copy or digital legal document that contains the clinical information that a hospital collects in-house and consists of patient identifying demographics, hospital room number, physician notes, problem list, medication orders and list, nursing assessments, and discharge.
What is a medical chart?
a specialty pharmacy set up particularly to serve home healthcare dispensing
What is a home infusion pharmacy?
also known as the Pharmacist in Charge (PIC) the chief executive officer of the hospital pharmacy department
What is the director of pharmacy?
a medication order that is to be filled and sent to the patient care unit immediately
What is stat order?
a list of approved medications for use within the hospital; this list is approved by the P&T Committee
What is a drug formulary?
a daily printout of all patient profiles
What is a cart fill list?
a senior pharmacy rechnician checks another pharmacy rechni-cian's work to add another layer of verification of the medication order prior to drug administration
What is tech checks tech (TCT)?
a drug not included on the hospital's drug formulary
What is a nonformulary drug?
service a centralized pharmacy service that prepares IV, TPN, and hazardous preparations in a sterile, cleanroom work environment
What is intravenous (IV) admixture?
medications stocked in a secured area at each nursing patient care station or floor.
What is floor stock?
an IV infusion therapy treatment that supplies a patient with all the nutrition needed by the body
What is total parenteral nutrition (TPN)?
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
What is an investigational drug?
an online record char documents the administration time of each drug to each patient by a nurse using barcode technology
What is an electronic medication administration record (eMAR)?
a mobile storage unit that contains individual patient drawers of medication for all patients on a given nursing unit
What is a unit dose cart?