Warfarin is used to prevent clots to prevent these two things.
What are heart attacks and strokes?
100
This error is when there is an incorrect strength, no refill information, and illegible writing.
What is prescribing error?
100
This is the process of identifying the most up-to-date list of all the medications a patient is currently taking.
What is Medication Reconciliation?
100
PTEC is the abbreviation for this organization.
What is the Pharmacy Technician Educators Council?
100
The right patient, medication, dose, route and time are called.
What are the Five Rights of Medication Safety?
200
These drugs that are commonly used can interact with Warfarin are called.
What are NSAIDs (Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs)?
200
This type of error includes incorrect interpretation, incorrect calculations, incorrect drug utilization evaluation (DUE).
What are sound-alike/look-alike errors?
200
This is when prescriptions are sent to the computer or mobile device directly to the pharmacy.
What is e-Prescribing?
200
This stands for the abbreviation ADR.
What is Adverse drug reaction?
200
Technicians should check each prescription this many times during the filling process.
What is three times?
300
Drinking this beverage can alter the effect of warfarin.
What is cranberry juice?
300
This type of error include ear medications being placed in the eye, incorrect route of administration and failure to accurately document.
What is administration error?
300
An error that can be made when an IV medication is reconstituted with the incorrect diluent.
What is wrong drug preparation?
300
ISMP is this organizations abbreviation.
What is Institute of Safe Medication Practices?
300
This error occurs when there is a failure to review a prescribed medication for proper regimen, appropriateness, detection or problems in dosage or failure in using laboratory results to correctly adjust dose.
What are monitoring errors?
400
Eating these types of foods can decrease the effect of Warfarin.
What are broccoli and other green vegetables and foods high in vitamin K?
400
These type of errors are made at home such as taking the wrong amount of medication, taking medication at the wrong time, taking an over the counter medication that interacts with prescribed medication.
What are patient errors?
400
These are infections that are related to hospital care (e.g. pneumonia and UTIs).
What are Health Care-Associated Infections?
400
This abbreviation is for the organization that addresses interdisciplinary causes of medication errors and strategies for prevention.
What is NCCMERP (National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention)?
400
This error occurs with drug product suffixes of LA, CR, CD, ER, XL, and SR.
What are Sustained-Released (SR) Dosage Form Errors?
500
Taking this type of antibiotic with Warfarin can increase the chance of bleeding.
What are sulfa drugs?
500
This is used to report drug errors to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
What is MedWatch?
500
This type of error includes improper dosing and IV use causing infections.
What are home health care errors?
500
This is the abbreviation of an electronic system used to dispense medications.
What is ADS (Automated dispensing system)?
500
These three forms of identification of a drug are given during barcoding.
What are NDC (National Drug Code), lot number and expiration date?