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Mass marketing of drugs occurred during this era.
What is the Scientific Era?
This ASHP movement required the education and certification of pharmacy technicians.
What is Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative (PPMI)?
Wrote the first Greco-Roman drug formulary
Who is Pedanius Dioscorides?
North American medicinal plant has been used from the early period of colonization to the present for building up immunity and preventing infection
What is echinacea or purple coneflower?
Hospital pharmacy technician training was developed during this era.
What is the Clinical Era?
To ensure best health outcomes for drug therapy is the purpose of:
What is Medication Therapy Management (MTM)?
Considered the "Father of Medicine."
Who is Hippocrates?
The study of medicinal uses of natural products
What is Pharmacognosy?
The medicinal plant has been used by healthcare providers since the Middle Ages for heart problems
What is foxglove?
Applying chemistry to biological processes
What is biochemistry?
Pharmacists could not offer drug therapy and counseling without these.
What are pharmacy technicians?
This organization gained popularity in the 1970s and 1980s, and provided health care through a managed-care model.
What is HMO?
The percentage of technicians employed in hospitals.
What is 25%?
Pharmaceuticals prepared in a nuclear pharmacy
What is radioactive pharmaceuticals?
The first conference for pharmacy technician educators organized in 1989.
What is the Pharmacy Technician Educators Council (PTEC)?
The PTCE (Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam) is offered by this organization.
What is the PTCB (Pharmacy Technician Certification Board)?
A document that permits a pharmacist to provide protocol based care upon referral from a physician.
What is a Collaborative Practice Agreement (CPA)?
The first US organization to formally train pharmacy technicians
What is the Department of Defense (DOD)?
Provides proof of knowledge for the retail and hospital pharmacy settings.
What is the Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam (PTCE)?
Also called community pharmacies
What are retail pharmacies?
The person(s) who are/is responsible for advising patients and healthcare providers about the appropriateness and effects of specific drugs.
Who are pharmacists?
A Sicilian law that said only chemists could make medicines in special shops in the 13th century.
What is Edict of Salermo?
defined as the study of how drug dosage formulations are manufactured to be released in the body.
What is Pharmaceutics?
One of the first manufactured and mass marketed synthetic drugs
What is Bayer Aspirin?
Requires proof of completion of continuing education (20 hours over two years).
What is recertification?