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Chapter 16
Hospital Pharmacy
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| NURSES' STATION | work station for medical personnel located on a nursing unit |
| NURSES' STATION | is a central storage communication center for patient care in each hospital unit |
| ANCILLARY AREAS | type of area ; radiology, the cardiac catheterization lab, and the emergency room |
| SATELLITE PHARMACIES | pharmacies located in different areas of the hospital |
| QUALITY ASSURANCE TECHNICIAN | conducts inspections of nursing units and other areas of the hospital that store medication, the technician makes sure that medications are stored and handled in compliance with hospital policy |
| INPATIENT PHARMACY | is the area of the hospital responsible for medication preparation and distribution |
| PHARMACY SATELLITES | are responsible for providing first doses of new medications ordered, all emergency medications, and replacing any missing or lost doses,have limited supply of medications |
| CENTRAL PHARMACY | In hospitals that have satellite pharmacies, the main inpatient pharmacy is called ________ |
| CENTRAL PHARMACY | sterile product area, or clean room is usually located in the ________ |
| USP 797 | set of regulations issued by US Pharmacopoeia set of policies and practices that must be followed on preparing compounded sterile products |
| BATCHING | preparation of large quantities of unit-dose oral solutions/suspensions or small volume parenteral for future use |
| CENTRAL PHARMACY | the main inpatient pharmacy in a hospital that has pharmacy in a hospital that has pharmacy satellites. |
| CLEAN ROOM | area designed for the preparation of sterile products |
| INPATIENT PHARMACY | a pharmacy located in a hospital that services only those patients in the hospital and its ancillary areas |
| OUTPATIENT PHARMACY | pharmacy attached to a hospital that services patients who have left the hospital or who are visiting doctors in a hospital outpatient clinic |
| PHARMACY SATELLITE | a branch of the inpatient pharmacy responsible for preparing, dispensing and monitoring medication for specific patient areas |
| INVESTIGAIONAL DRUG SERVICE | a specialized pharmacy subsection that deals solely with clinical drug trials |
| FORMULARY | a list of drugs that have been selected by health-care professionals at the hospital based on therapeutic factors |
| PHARMACY & THERAPEUTICS COMMITTEE (P&T) | to set up, add, remove and periodically evaluate medications listed on the hospital formulary |
| CLOSED FORMULARY | a type of formulary that requires physicians to order only those medications on the formulary list |
| NON-FORMLARY | drugs not on the formulary list and not regularly stocked in the pharmacy |
| THERAPEUTIC INTERCHANGE | a policy approved by the hospital P&T Committee that allows the pharmacist to change a medication order to a therapeutically equivalent formulary medication |
| PNEUMATIC TUBE | a system that shuttles objects through a tube using compressed air as the force; commonly used in hospitals for delivery of medication |
| ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD (EMR) OR ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD (EHR) | a computerized patient medical record |
| MEDICATION ORDER FORM | In the hospital, all written orders for a patient are done on __________ |
| COMPUTERIZED PHYSICIAN ORDER ENTRY (CPOE) | a system in which the physician or agent of the physician enters orders directly into the hospital computer system |
| MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION RECORD (MAR) | a form that tracks the medication administered to a patient |
| PRN ORDER | an order for medication to be administered only on an as needed basis |
| STANDING ORDER | a standard medication order for patients to receive medication at scheduled intervals |
| STAT ORDER | an order for medication to be administered immediately |
| RESTRICTED MEDICATIONS | cannot be dispensed until the appropriate service approves the order |
| AUTOMATIC STOP ORDERS | these orders are active for only limited period of time, are used for certain class of medications, such as antibiotic & narcotics |
| AUTOMATIC STOP ORDERS | help ensure that the patient's therapy is continually reassessed and monitored |
| DRIP ROUNDS | a process in which the pharmacy technician goes to specific nursing units to find out what IV drips will be needed later that day |
| FINAL FILTER | a device used to remove particulate matter, the ________should be placed at the end of point of an IV line just before it enters a patient's vein |
| RISK EVALUATION AND MITIGATION STRATEGY (REMS) | under the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act, the FDA requires manufacturers of drug with safety concerns to complete ____________ |
| ELEMENT TO ASSURE SAFE USE (ETASU) | may require a drug's prescribers to complete specific training and certificcatin |
| DRUG RECALL | the voluntary or involuntary removal of drug product by the manufacturer, usually only pertains to a particular shipment or lot number |
| EMERGENCY DRUG PROCUREMENT | quickly obtain a medication not currently in stock in the pharmacy in situations where the drug is urgently needed |
| PAR | the amount of drug product that should be kept on the pharmacy shelf |
| EXTEMPORANEOUS COMPOUNDING | the pharmacy technician will follow a recipe for a compound |
| BULK COMPOUNDING LOG | once the medication is compounded a record of the preparation and ingredients must be put-in |
| RECONSTITUTE | addition of water or other diluent to commercially |
| EXTEMPROANEOUS COMPOUND | medications that must be prepared following a specific recipe or formula |
| BULK COMPOUNDING LOG | a record of medications that are compounded in parmacy |
| RECONSTITUTE | addition of water or other diluent to commercially made drug bottles or vials in order to make a solution or suspension fro premade powder form of the drug |
| UNIT DOSE | a package containing the amount of a drug required for one dose |
| ADS | A system in which the medications are dispensed from an automated unit at the point of use |
| SHORT STABILITY | medication that will expire soon after preparation (within 1-6 hours after preparatio |
| TOTAL PAENTERAL NUTRITION (TPN) | protein,carbohydrates and essential nutrients to be given to patiedt through IV line |
| CODE CART | a locked cart of medications and other medical equipment |
| CODE CART | a locked cart of medications and other medical equipment designed for emergency used lonely |