This category of nonprescription drugs includes vitamins, minerals, and herbs that is not regulated by the FDA
What are dietary supplements?
100
This status is achieved by a hospital, community college, college, or university that meets quality standards and fulfills the requirements designated by the accrediting organization
What is accreditation?
100
This is the area of the sterile compounding lab that is used for hand washing and garbing, staging of components, order entry, CSP labeling, and other high-particulate-generating activities.
What is anteroom?
100
This book contains U.S. standards for medicines, dosage forms, drug substances, excipients or inactive substances, medical devices, and dietary supplements
What is United States Pharmacopeia-National Formulary (USP-NF)
100
This the name under which the manufacturer markets a drug; also known as the trade name.
What is a brand name?
200
This is a negative consequence to a patient from taking a particular drug
What is an adverse drug reaction (ADR)?
200
This branch of the U.S. Justice Department is responsible for regulating the sale and use of drugs with abuse potential
What is the DEA - Drug Enforcement Administration?
200
This is a type of hood that is used to prepare IV drug admixtures, nutrition solutions, and other parenteral products aseptically
What is a horizontal laminar airflow workbench (LAFW)?
200
This source provides pricing information for medications, both RX and OTC.
What is the Red Book?
200
These are synthetic, performance-enhancing drugs that mimics the human hormone testosterone; due to abuse by athletes, this drug has been reclassified by the DEA as a controlled substance
What are anabolic steroids?
300
This class are cancer-fighting drugs.
What are antineoplastic drugs?
300
This agency of the federal government that is responsible for ensuring the safety and efficacy of food and drugs prepared for the market
What is Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
300
This is a device used with LAFWs to filter out most particulate matter and to establish an aseptic environment in which to prepare parenteral products
What is a high-efficiency particulate airflow (HEPA) filter?
300
This source identifies drug products approved on the basis of safety and effectiveness by the FDA under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
What is the Orange Book?
300
This is used in the preparation of hazardous compounded sterile products (CSP), such as chemotherapy, and is designed to offer protection for the worker during the manipulation of these toxic chemicals
What is a a vertical laminar airflow hood or biological safety cabinet (BSC)?
400
This means a generic drug delivers approximately the same amount of active ingredient into a healthy volunteer's bloodstream in the same amount of time as the innovator or brand name drug
What is bioequivalent?
400
This agency's (in the Department of Labor) primary mission is to ensure the safety and health of U.S. workers by setting and enforcing regulations and standards
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
400
This means the absence of all microorganisms
What is sterility?
400
This a chapter of the United States Pharmacopeia that contains national standards for pharmacies formulating nonsterile preparations
What is USP-NF General Chapter (795)
400
This is an inadvertent introduction of a small piece of the rubber closure into the solution while removing medication from a vial.
What is coring?
500
This is a warning statement required by the FDA indicating a serious or even life-threatening adverse reaction from a drug; the warning statement is on the product package insert (PPI) for the pharmacy staff and in the MedGuide for consumers
What is a black box warning ?
500
These governing bodies are responsible for the regulation of the practice of pharmacy within the state
What are state boards of pharmacy?
500
These procedures are followed in healthcare settings to prevent infection as a result of exposure to blood or other bodily fluids.
What are universal precautions?
500
This a chapter of the United States Pharmacopeia that contains national standards for pharmacies formulating sterile preparations
What is USP-NF General Chapter (797)
500
This is a sterile fluid added to a powder to reconstitute, dilute, or dissolve a medication