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Pharmacology Unit 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| A professional organization that serves to support public health by monitoring healthcare professionals who practice pharmacy | Board of Pharmacy |
| Formally confirmed to have the required characteristics and knowledge | Certified |
| To work together with others in an effective and positive manner | Collaborate |
| Substances that have medical properties (commonly refereed to as drugs or medicine) | Pharmacuticals |
| A licensed professional who has achieved a higher level of education in the study of pharmacy | Pharmacist |
| The health profession that deals with preparing, dispensing, and ensuring safe and effective use of drugs | Pharmacy |
| A certified health professional who supports the pharmacist by dispensing medication and maintaing other operations at the pharmacy | Pharmacy Technician |
| The US Constitution gives each state the power to make laws governing its residents as long as those laws do not violate the US constitution | 10th Amendment |
| A document that serves as proof of and acidemice or training accomplishment | Certificate |
| The process of becoming certified and earning a certificate | Certification |
| Someone who has passed a national exam, which allows them to wear the letters "CPhT" after there name | Certified Pharmacy Technician |
| The ongoing education and professional development available to professionals in healthcare | Continuing Education CE |
| A means of tracking continuing education credits | Continuing education units CEUs |
| An official credential that demonstrates expertise in a particular field of study | License |
| The act of deceptive medical practice | Medical fraud |
| A medical error or oversight that results from a healthcare professional not doing an acceptable job of providing medical attention, to the point that a patient is harmed | Medical malpractice |
| The study of the description and action of drugs | Pharmacology |
| State law that governs the practice of pharmacy | Pharmacy Practice Act |
| The right for patients to make decisions for themselves | Autonomy |
| Ethics that are specific to health, medicine, and medical | Bioethics |
| Ethics that apply to the realm of commercial, or business, activity | Business ethics |
| Guidelines issued by an organization outlining how staff or members should behave to conform to its values and moral standards | Code of ethics |
| A situation in which companies or employees have a clash between their own gain and professional responsibilities that may affect their integrity and job performance | Conflict of interest |
| Specific rules that make up a set of ethical guidelines | Ethical principles |
| Guidelines that define whether behavior is right or wrong | Ethics |
| Rules for guiding behavior | Guidelines |
| The ability to behave according to ones positive values | Integrity |
| Guidelines that people in a profession or at a workplace are expected to follow when doing their jobs | Professional standards of care |
| Acting | Behaving |
| A person whose job requires specialized knowledge, such as a doctor, a nurse, or pharmacy technician | Professional |
| Behavior appropriate to the workplace | Professional behavior |
| A standard of personal conduct appropriate for the workplace | Professionalism |
| Fulfilling your commitments, taking ownership of your work, and completing your tasks | Responsibility |
| The process of the receiver thinking about what he or she is hearing, as the sender speaks | Active listening |
| The medium through which a messages are relayed between senders and receivers | Channel of communication |
| The process of transferring or exchanging information through verbal and nonverbal means | Communication |
| Transferring or exchanging information without spoken words, sounds, or language | Nonverbal communication |
| Individuals or groups of people involved in a particular situation | Parties |
| Transferring or exchanging information using spoken words, sounds, or language | Verbal Communication |
| Assignment of duties to a specific person | Delegation |
| The contributions of a group of people, in which the people play different roles to achieve a shard object | Teamwork |
| The principles that a patient's information is private sensitive and there are limits on its disclosure | Confidentiality |
| A federal privacy law that was established in 1996 by the United States Congress | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA |
| The authorized by a patient for healthcare worked to share private health information with others | Patient consent |
| A right | Privilege |
| Exchange of sensitive or person information that is shared between patients and healthcare workers and must be kept private | Privileged communication |
| The privileged information that is associated with each patient | Protected health information PHI |
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