Key Terms
contains product information on drug labels: drug name, dose, strength, manufacturer, expiration date, and barcode
Unit Dose Product Label
STAT order
a medication order that is to be filled and sent to the patient care unit immediately
the minimum restock and maximum reorder levels for each drug on each nurse.
Par levels
a drug used in clinical trials that have not yet been approved by the FDA for use in the general population, or a drug used for non-approved indications
investigational drug
a specialty pharmacy set up particularly to serve home healthcare dispensing
Home infusion pharmacy
a mobile storage unit that contains individual patient drawers of medication for all patients on a given nursing unit
Unit Dose Cart
Quality Assurance (QA)
a system of procedures, activities, feedback, and oversight that ensures that operational and quality standards are consistently met
Nonformulary drug
:a drug not included on the hospital's drug formulary
a centralized pharmacy service that prepares IV, TPN, and HAZARDOUS PREPARATIONS in a sterile, cleanroom work environment
IV admixture
floor stock
medications stocked in a secure area at each nursing patient care station on the floo
an amount of a drug that has been prepackaged or repackaged to a particular patient for a single administration at a particular time
unit dose
Policy and procedures manual
an online or written, step-by-step series of instructions for pharmacists and technicians alike on all operations within the pharmacy department
medical chart
a hard copy or digital legal document that contains the clinical information that a hospital collects in-house and consists of patient identifying demographics, hospital room number, physician notes, problem list, medication orders and list, nursing assessments, and discharge
intake record
documentation by the nurse upon admission to the hospital
eMAR
an online record that documents the administration time of each drug to each patient by a nurse using barcode technology
an IV Infusion therapy treatment that supplies a patient with all the nutrition needed by the body
total parenteral nutrition (TPN)
Pick station
an area of the inpatient pharmacy that houses frequently prescribed formulary drugs in commercially available unit-dose packaging, thus allowing efficient medication cart filling by more than one techmican
Medication order
:a prescription written in the hospital setting
a committee of the hospital that ensures that Appropriate protection is provided to patients using investigational drugs, sometimes referred to as the Human Use Committee
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Electronic Health Record (EHR
a computerized health information record to share patient information among authorized healthcare providers to coordinate better
mealth cand
a senior pharmacy technician checks another pharmacy technician's work to add another layer of verification of the medication order prior to drug administration
Tech Check Tech
21. Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) Committee:
a committee of the hospital that reviews, approves, and revises the hospital's formulary of drugs and maintains the drug use policies of the hospital
joint commission
an independent governing body that sets standards for quality patient care and safety in hospitals and other healthcare facilities; this organization is responsible for the accreditation of hospitals
Home Medications
a patient's medications BROUGHT FROM HOME to continue use while in the hospital
drug formulary
a list of approved medications for use within the hospital; this list is approved by the P&T Committce