Pharmacy Tasks/Education Part 1
What are 3 education paths for the pharmacy tech.
What are formalized pharmacy tech training programs (certificates, diplomas, associate of applied science degrees), on the job training (formal employer-based programs or job shadowing) & high school career and technical educational programs.
What are 2 tasks a pharmacy technician can perform over the phone.
What are receive refill requests from PTs & receive refill authorizations from nurses or physicians.
This law requires that prescribers are assigned a DEA number.
What is the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970.
These are the 2 major areas of a pharmacy department.
What are the medication storage area & the dispensing work area.
What ancient Chinese document listed the medicinal value of hundreds of herbs.
What is the Pen T-Sao Documents.
Name 2 general types of activities performed by a pharmacy technician.
What are preparing prescriptions and maintaining the pharmacy department.
What are the educational requirements for pharmacists.
What are graduating w/a PharmD degree (2 yrs of pre pharmacy classes and 4 yrs of study at an accredited college), completion of an internship & passing a pharmacy law exam administered by a state board of pharmacy.
Which agency operations the National Medication Errors Reporting Program.
What is the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP).
This is the purpose of a speed shelf.
What is to provide quick access to medications that are prescribed most often.
This was the 1st book of medication standards accepted nationally across the US.
What is the United States Pharmacopeia (USP).
This is a possible consequence of violating PT confidentiality.
What is exposing the pharmacy to a lawsuit.
What are 3 pharmacy technicians tasks associated with filling prescriptions.
What are retrieve medications form shelves, print prescription labels and accompanying patient medication guides & prepare medications for a pharmacist to check.
Name the 2 versions of Untied States Pharmacpeia. What are the Drug Information (USP-DI) - USP-DI Advice for the Patient & the USP-DI for the Health Care Professional.
What are the Drug Information (USP-DI) - USP-DI Advice for the Patient & the USP-DI for the Health Care Professional.
What are the 2 methods of arranging storage bays.
What are alphabetically by medication name & by dosage form.
This was the major contribution of John Morgan to the field of pharmacy.
What is the 1st hospital pharmacist to support the use of written prescriptions.
What are 4 examples of pharmacy technician duties that might be within scope of practice depending on state laws.
What are receiving verbal prescription orders from prescribers, transferring prescriptions from one pharmacy to another, verifying prescription medications that do not require determinations based on clinical judgment & immunizing PT’s.
The tasks performed by the pharmacy technician allow the pharmacist to spend more time providing which professional and clinical services.
What is counseling PTs, monitoring therapy & performing interventions.
Which agency establishes standards for the identity, strength, quality and purity of medications, food ingredients and dietary supplements.
What is the United States Pharmacopeia (USP).
This is the purpose of the counseling area.
What is to provide an area out of the way of customer traffic to protect pT privacy while being counseled by the pharmacist.
This is an ancient Egyption collection of 800 prescriptions that mentions 700 medications.
What is the Papyrus Ebers.
What are 3 tasks a pharmacy technician can perform when a PT arrives at a community pharmacy counter.
What are accept new prescription from PT’s, obtain PT health info & enter data in the computer that includes PT, prescriber and prescription information.
What are 4 pharmacy technician activities associated with maintaining the pharmacy department.
What are maintain medication and equipment inventory, stock pharmacy supplies, keep accurate records for the pharmacy department & help PT’s locate OTC medication available w/o a prescription.
There are 4 references that state boards of pharmacy require pharmacies to keep on hand.
What are the Controlled Substances Act, the States Drug Regulations and Controlled Substance Act, The United States Pharmacopeia-National Formulary (USP-NF) & Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations (The Orang Book).
Which 6 items are found in the dispensing area.
What are the counting equipment, counting trays and automatic pill counters, the distilled water dispenser, the prescription containers & auxiliary labels.
what are the 4 eras of pharmacy in the 20th century.
What are the Traditional era, the Scientific era, the Clinical era & the Pharmaceutical care era.