Brand/Generic
Rivotril
Clonazepam
What act governs patient records
PHIPA (Personal Health Information Protection Act)
CBC
Complete blood count
What are the three rules of ASO?
Antibiotics = 7 days
Narcotics = dispense 0, 7 day stop date
Anything the doctor says
In this system all medication available on the unit for the nurse
Floor stock/ward stock/Mosaic
Flagyl
Metronidazole
What document is considered a complete account of a patient's care?
a patient record
UA
This organizations classifies hospitals into groups
Public Hospitals Act
This system has been identified as the new standard for dispensing
Unit dose
Dilantin
Phenytoin
Define confirmation bias
"Errors can occur because practioners 'see' the information they expect (ie. confirming their expectations) rather than seeing the information that is actually present (which might contradict what they expect)"
COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Define decentralized pharmacy
When satellite pharmacies are located throughout the hospital, in close proximity to their specific patient demographic
In this system pharmacy renews all medications before they are dispensed to the unit
IPO / Individual Prescription Order System
Lovenox
Enoxaparin
Besides patient identification and allergies, what two pieces of information about the patient need to be included on a prescription
Height and weight
DJD
Degenerative Joint Disease
What program allows for drugs that are not marketed in Canada to be brought into the country?
Special Access program
The Traditional system is a combine of which two other systems?
Mosaic/IPO
Benadryl
Diphenhydramine
Four important characteristics of documentation are:
Organized, Complete, Factual, Current
ECG
Electrocardiogram
Health Canada, ISMP and the Canadian Institute for Health Information developed...
Canadian Medication Incident Reporting and Prevention System
This system has the least amount of medication waste associated with it
Unit Dose