Definitions
Oversees, checks, approves work, educate providers and patients.
What is a pharmacist?
An independent, nonprofit organization that sets quality standards for prescription medications, over-the-counter drugs, homeopathic drugs and dietary supplements and also sets standards for nonsterile, sterile, and hazardous compounding
What is the US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)?
The study of the medicinal functions of natural products and chemicals of animal, plant, and mineral origins
Individualizing doses of drugs based on absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion from the body
What are pharmacokinetics?
Formal agreements where licensed providers make a diagnosis, supervise patient care, and refer patients to a pharmacist for protocol-based care
What is a Collaborative Practice Agreement (CPA)?
Derived from the Latin word apotheca
What is apothecary?
What is the Pharmacy Technician Educators Council (PTEC)?
Medications delivered directly as liquid medication in a patient's vein
What are intravenous (IV) solutions?
A service that optimizes therapeutic outcomes for individual patients; includes five core elements: medication therapy review, personal medication record, medication-related action plan, intervention and/or referral, and documentation and follow-up
What is medication therapy management (MTM)?
Pharmacies organized under a corporate structure that follow specific rules and regulations for accreditation.
What are institutional pharmacies?
The extraction of active ingredients into compounding substances, such as juices, saps and oils
What is galencial pharmacy?
Represents the interests of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians for best practice in hospitals, health maintenance organizations, long-term care facilities, home care, and other components of healthcare
What is the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)?
The study of how drug dosage formulations are manufactured and released in the body
What are pharmaceutics?
Applying chemistry to biological processes
What is biochemistry?
Also called retail pharmacies
What are community pharmacies?
Called the "backbone" of the pharmacy profession
What are pharmacy technicians?
Organized in 1852 to help establish professional practice standards and address the problem of varying qualities and recipes of imported drugs
What is the American Pharmacists Association (APhA)?
The science of drugs and their interactions with the organ systems of living animals
What is pharmacology?
The study of applying pharmacology to the treatment of illness and disease states
What is therapeutics?
This required the education and certification of pharmacy technician and encouraged implementation of pharmacy practices
What is the Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative (PPMI)?
Combining chemistry, metallurgy, physics, and medicine with elements of astrology and mysticism
What is alchemy?
A collaboration between the ASHP and the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE) that was formed to review and accredit all future pharmacy technician education and training programs.
What is the Pharmacy Technician Accreditation Commission (PTAC)?
What is a health maintenance organization (HMO)?
The study of diseases and illnesses affecting the normal functions of the body
What is pathophysiology?
This is an ASHP-driven effort to transform how pharmacists care for patients by empowering the pharmacy team to take responsibility for medication-use outcomes - formerly the PPMI
What is the Practice Advancement Initiative (PAI)?