Pharmacy Careers
Routes of Administration
Rights of Med Administration
Controlled Substances
Drug Classifications
100
The person working in the pharmacy who is responisble for performing the final check on any medication before it is given to the patient
What is the Pharmacist
100
Most commonly prescribed route of medication, but also the slowest to be absorbed into the bloodstream
What is oral?
100
The right that says you are giving the medication to the right person
What is Right Patient
100
Schedule of drugs that is not approved for medical use... LSD, marijuana, peyote
What is Schedule I?
100
An agent that lowers blood glucose
What is a hypoglycemic?
200
The pharmacy career that involves customer service, cashing out the patient and keeping the pharmacy area tiday
What is pharmacy aide?
200
Gases, sprays, fluids or powders are given by this method so that medication is delivered directly to the lungs
What is inhalation?
200
The right that says that you are giving the correct amount of the drug
What is Right Dose?
200
Drugs that are highly addictive and dangerous, but approved for medical use and are tightly restricted
What is Schedule II?
200
Valium is an example of the drug class
What is muscle relaxant?
300
Pharmacy career that involves filling the prescription, counting out medicines and typing up the medication label
What is pharmacy technician
300
Medication route that involves an injection into the muscle, skin or vein
What is parenteral?
300
The right that says that you are giving the medication in the right way?
What is Right Route
300
Use of narcotics causes this vital sign to decrease. Careful monitoring must be done!
What is respiratory rate
300
A drug class that increases blood pressure by constricting the blood vessels
What is a vasopressor
400
To work as a pharmacy technician, you must have this and not this...
What is a state pharmacy certificate and not a criminal record of drug abuse?
400
The right that says you are giving the medication bid, tid, q 8 hours or qd
What is Right Time
400
Use of narcotics causes this, so a stool softener should also be prescribed.
What is constipation?
400
A drug that increases the excretion of urine
What is a diuretic?
500
The pharmacy position which requires the most education, pays the most, but has the most liability
What is pharmacist
500
Medication that is delivered through the skin
What is transdermal?
500
The right that says that you have charted the medication appropriately
What is Right Documentation?
500
Schedule of narcotics that has the least potential for abuse
What is Schedule IV?
500
A class of drug that delays blood clotting
What is an anticoagulant?