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to help increase awareness of the health screening programs
National health observances, Risk assessments, Health screenings, Lifestyle counseling, educational programs
the minimum amount of time that a pharmacy technician should scrub their hands with soap and water for effective hand hygiene
What is 20 seconds?
Blister packs are also known as
What are Punch Cards?
Bug bites, Parasite, worms and ameba
What are some ways to catch diseases ?
person to person contact
An example of direct contact with a pathogen is ?
Frozen vaccines
Live vaccines like varicella, MMR
an expected symptom in a patient who has Clostridium difficile (difficile)
What is diarrhea?
To improve patient compliance to their medication therapy
What are Adherence Aids?
Dosage spoons, Droppers, Tablet splitter, Daily or weekly dose planner/pillbox, Dial-a-dose dispenser, Electronic reminder caps
Hand washing, immunization, and cleaning your surroundings/environment
how to break the chain of transmission
What is a viral infection usually in a patient who had chicken pox as a child?
SDS
Safety Data Sheet
OSHA
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Person responsible for billing patients for medications used, restocking, and checking expiration dates of medications on the emergency cart.
Who is the Pharmacy Technician?
name the 4 ways of getting transmitted diseases
droplets, airborne, blood borne , contact
drug resistant bacteria
What are MRSA and VRE?
These are the names of major vaccines that pharmacies offer.
What are Flu, Shingles, Tdap, Pneumonia, Hep A, Hep B, Meningococcal, MMR, Polio,
What are minerals?
What must be contained on the label of an repackaged product?
Unit Dose: medication name, lot number, beyond-use date, bar code, NDC number, and initials of who packaged them.
Blister Card: patient’s name, medication name, medication strength, lot number, expiration date, beyond-use date, and initials of the technician
they are infections that patients contract while in a health care facility.
What are Health care-associated infections (HAIs)?
Central line-associated bloodstream infections
Catheter-associated urinary tract
Ventilator-associated pneumonia
Pathogens
What are the microorganisms that cause disease called?
The vaccine to help protect against whooping cough
What is Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis)
MRSA
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Expiration dating for nonsterile drugs repackaged by the pharmacy into single unit, unit dose, or unit of issue packages shall meet the following conditions
Not exceed the manufacturer’s original expiration date.
The expiration date is not greater than 12 months.
The container must protect from light, moisture, air, & heat as appropriate.
The best way to prevent the spread of health care associated infections
Hand hygiene
PPE
Prevention strategies specific to the common HAIs
Environmental cleaning
Infection reporting and quality assessment
Bacteria
Fungi
Protozoa
Viruses
What are the four types of microorganisms.