Key Terms
Admitting Order
a medication order written by a physician on admission of a patient to the hospital; any or may not include a medication order
Drug Formulary
a list of approved medications for use within the hospital; this list is approved by the PKRT Committee
Home Medications
A patient’s medications brought form home to continue use while in hospital
The Joint Comission
an independent governing body that sets standards for quality patient care and safety in hospitals and other healthcare facilities;this orginization 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 maintains 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 tr
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Computerized health information record to share patient information among authorized healthcare eproviders to better coordinate health care
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
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
Medical Chart
a hard copy or digital legal document that controls the clinical information that a hospital collects in-house and consisted of patient identifying demographic, hospital room number, physician notes, problem list, medication orders and list, nursing assessments, and discharge
Pick Station
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
Cart fill list
a daily printout of all patient 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
Directer of Pharmacy
Also known as the Pharmacist in Charge (PIC) the chief executive officer of the hospital pharmacy department
Floor stock
medications stored in a second area at each nursing patient care station or floor
IV Admixture
a centralized pharmacy service that prepares IV, TPN, and hazardous preperations in a sterile, cleanroom work environment
Nonformulary drug
a drug not included on the hospital drug formulary
Quality Assurance (QA)
a system of procedures, activities, feedback, and oversight that ensures that operational and quality standards are consistently met.
Discharge order
An order written by a physician that provides telephone instructions including prescribed medications and doses, for a discharge patient
home infusion pharmacy
a specialty pharmacy 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 reseck and maximum reseck 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.