What's the Hype about Type!
There are 2 types of pharmacy, name each type of pharmacy and 1 example each
What is Community/Retail Pharmacy
What is Institutional/Hospital Pharmacy
HIPAA
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Counter areas designated for taking prescriptions and for dispensing them to patient
What is the transaction window(s)
I am designed for counting pills and capsules
What is a counting tray
Giant Pharmacy
What is a Community Pharmacy?
PHI
What is Protected Health Information
Completed prescriptions are generally placed in bins or shelves alphabetized by the customer's last name
What is Prescription bins or shelves
I am an automatic pill counting device. The Pharmacy Technician use me because I'm faster than a counting tray.
What is a Kirby Lester
Assisted Living Pharmacy
What is Institutional Pharmacy
Confidentiality V.S. HIPAA
Confidentiality is the ethical obligation to protect private information, while HIPAA is a US law that legally mandates and sets specific standards for protecting patient health information.
This area is for mixing or other preparation. There must be an easily accessible sink in this area, kept clean at all times.
What is the compounding area
Pills and tablets are usually place in me. I am amber in color
What is a vial or amber pill container
Individually owned local pharmacies
What is Independent Pharmacies
Most community pharmacies have these to record that a patient has picked up his/her prescription
What is a signature log
New prescriptions may be submitted to the pharmacies through a variety of means: handwritten forms from patients, prescriber faxes and calls, and electronically as "e-script"
What is Prescription Intake
You will need me to reconstitute medications such as pediatric antibiotics
What is a graduate cylinder