National Policy
This federal program provides health coverage for seniors 65+.
What is Medicare?
In Breaking Bad, Walter White cooks this drug.
What is methamphetamine?
This NC-based organization represents and advocates for pharmacists at the state level.
What is the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists (NCAP)?
This OTC drug class, which includes ibuprofen and naproxen, helps with pain, fever, and inflammation.
What are NSAIDs?
This exam must be passed to become a licensed pharmacist.
What is the NAPLEX?
This agency makes sure new drugs are safe and effective.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
This popular drink originally contained a small amount of cocaine in its formula.
What is Coca-Cola?
In NC, this is the government body that oversees pharmacist licensure.
This corticosteroid, brand name Flonase, is available OTC as a nasal spray for allergies.
What is fluticasone?
Student pharmacists must first obtain this credential from the Board of Pharmacy before working in pharmacies or rotations.
What is an intern registration?
This program provides health coverage for low-income individuals and families.
What is Medicaid?
The TikTok trend where people count, sort, or compound pills in a slow, quiet, and soothing way is an example of this type of relaxing sensory video.
What is ASMR?
This license/agreement allows pharmacists to provide drug therapy management in collaboration with a physician.
What is a Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner (CPP)?
This antibiotic class, which includes amoxicillin, works by inhibiting bacterial cell wall synthesis.
What are beta-lactams / penicillins?
When documenting patient counseling in the electronic record, you must follow this federal law to protect patient privacy.
What is HIPAA?
This 2010 law expanded access to health insurance, required coverage of young adults on their parents’ plans until age 26, and emphasized preventive care.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
What movie depicted a choice between “the red pill or the blue pill,” referencing a choice of knowledge or ignorance.
What is The Matrix?
This state law requires pharmacists to check the Controlled Substances Reporting System (CSRS) before dispensing opioids and certain other controlled substances.
What is the STOP act?
This oral leukotriene receptor antagonist, brand name Singulair, is used for asthma and allergic rhinitis.
What is montelukast?
When a student is involved in a vaccination clinic, policies often require reporting administered doses to this type of system.
What is the state immunization registry?
This is the national policy goal to allow pharmacists to be paid for clinical services.
What is Provider Status?
These chewable children’s vitamins feature characters from a classic stone-age cartoon family and provide Vitamin C.
What are Flintstones Vitamins?
In NC, what is one medication category pharmacists can prescribe under statewide protocols.
What are hormonal contraceptives / tobacco cessation products / HIV PrEP/PEP / naloxone ?
This class of inhalers provides rapid bronchodilation and is used for immediate relief of asthma symptoms.
What are short-acting beta-agonists / SABAs?
Student pharmacists can engage in shaping laws and regulations affecting their profession by joining organizations, attending legislative days, and contacting lawmakers. This activity is broadly known as…
What is advocacy / policy involvement?