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DEFINATIONS
| WORD | Definition |
|---|---|
| Apothecary | Latin term for pharmacists |
| Clinical Pharmacists | Pharmacists who monitors patient's medications in inpatient and some retail settings |
| DEC= Drug Educator Coordinator | pharmacists who helps set protocol in a hospital settings |
| Dogma | code of belief based on tradition rather then fact |
| Inpatient Pharmacy | A pharmacy in a hospital or institutional settings |
| Outpatient Pharmacy | community pharmacies in outpatient hospital settings |
| Pharmacists | person who dispenses drugs and counsels patients |
| Pharmacy Technician | person who assists pharmacists by filling prescriptionsand performing other non dispensing taks |
| Protocol | set of standars written by hospital or insurance company for patient treatment |
| shaman | medicine person who holds a high place of honor in a tribe |
| Trephining | incision made in to the skull of a diseased person to give the disease a portal to leave through |
| CE= Countinuing education | required for license renewal |
| Hyperalimentation | parenteral nutrition for patients who are unabel to eat solids or liquids |
| National Association of Boards of Pharmacy | NABP organization for members of state boards of pharmacy |
| parenterals | all medications that are given with injections |
| ASHP | American Society of Health-System Pharmacists |
| AAPT | American Association of Pharmacy Technicians |
| NPTA | National Pharmacy Technician Association |
| APHA | American Pharmaceutical Association |
| communication | ability to express oneself in such a way that ones is readily and clearly understood |
| competency | the capability of proficiency to perform a function |
| Confidiality | keep privileged customer information form being disclosed without the costumer consent |
| Ethics | values and morals that are used within a profession |
| Morals | Ethics honorable beliefs |
| Nationally Certified Technician | CPhT proeficient in minimum standars set by the pharmacy Technician Board |
| Professionalism | conforming to right principles of conduct (work ethics) ad accepted by others in the profession |
| protocol | code of behavior; procedure |
| Aesculapius | God of medecine |
| Aristotle | Greek scientist, philosopher |
| Roger Bacon | Scientific Method |