Overview & Regulations
This federal act requires pharmacists to offer counseling to patients receiving new prescriptions.
What is the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA ’90)?
This abbreviation tells a technician to dispense the brand-name drug only.
What is DAW (Dispense As Written)?
This organization collects voluntary reports of medication errors and near-misses.
What is the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)?
One teaspoon equals this many milliliters.
What is 5 mL?
Namenda
What is memantine?
This law limits the sale of pseudoephedrine and requires ID and logbook documentation.
What is the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act (CMEA) of 2005)?
Before filling a prescription, the technician must verify these two identifiers with the patient.
What are the patient’s name and date of birth?
A recall likely to cause temporary or reversible harm is classified as this type.
What is a Class II recall?
A prescription reads 1 tbsp po bid x 10 days. How many mL are needed?
300 mL
Tums
What is calcium carbonate?
This agency approves and monitors the safety of prescription and OTC medications.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
This is the final step in the prescription-filling process before it is handed to the patient.
What is pharmacist verification?
This type of lettering helps distinguish look-alike drug names such as hydrOXYzine and hydrALAZINE.
What is Tall Man lettering?
How many mL in a pint?
What is 480 mL
Singulair
What is montelukast?
This law protects patient health information from unauthorized access or disclosure.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
When entering prescription information into the computer, the technician should always double-check this detail to prevent dispensing errors.
What is the drug name, strength, and dosage form?
To prevent dosing errors, this must always precede a decimal in numbers less than one.
What is a leading zero?
How many mg in a 5 grain aspirin?
Flomax
This agency enforces the Controlled Substances Act and issues DEA registration numbers.
What is the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)?
When a technician compares the medication order to the items received in the shipment, this process is known as.
What is reconciliation?
This FDA program allows health professionals to report serious adverse drug reactions.
What is MedWatch?
A 250 mg/5 mL suspension is prescribed 500 mg bid for 10 days. How many milliliters are needed?
What is 200 mL?
Hytrin
What is terazosin?