terms
a medication order written by a physician on admission of a patient to the hospital; may or may not include a medication order
admitting order
a specialty pharmacy set up particularly to serve home healthcare dispensing
home infusion pharmacy
Joint Commission
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
a committee of the hospital that reviews, approves, and revises the hos-pical's formulary of drugs and maintains the drug use policies of the hospital
Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
a senior pharmacy technician checks another pharmacy technician's work to add another layer of verification of the medication order prior to drug administration
tech checks tech
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
automated medication dispensing system
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
Institutional Review Board
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
medical chart
an area of the inpatient pharmacy that houses frequently prescribed formulary drugs in commercially available unit dose packaging, thus allowing efficient medication cart filling by more than one technician
pick station
an IV infusion therapy treatment that supplies a patient with all the nutrition needed by the body
total parenteral nutrition
a daily printout of all patient profiles
cart fill list
documentation by the nurse upon admission to the hospital
intake record
a prescription written in the hospital setting
medication order
an online or written, step-by-step set of instructions for pharmacists and technicians alike on all operations within the pharmacy department
Policy and Procedure Manual
an amount of a drug that has been prepackaged or repackaged to a particular patient for a single administration at a particular time
unit dose
also known as the Pharmacist in Charge (PIC) the chief executive officer of the hospital pharmacy department
director of pharmacy
a centralized pharmacy service that prepares IV, TPN, and hazardous preparations in a sterile, cleanroom work environment
intravenous admixture service
a drug not included on the hospital's drug formulary
nonformulary drug
a system of proce-dures, activities, feedback, and oversight that ensures that operational and quality standards are consistently met
quality assurance
a mobile storage unit that contains individual patient drawers of medication for all patients on a given nursing unit
unit dose cart
computerized health information record to share patient information among authorized healthcare providers to better coordinate health care
electronic health record (BHR)
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
investigational drug
the minimum restock and maximum reorder levels for each drug on each nursing unit
par levels
a medication order that is to be filled and sent to the patient care unit immediately
stat order
product label contains product information on drug labels: drug name, dose, strength, manufacturer, expiration date, and barcode
unit dose