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0425DSN
Appendix C
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Absorption | The amount of medication that enters the bloodstream or systematic circulation. |
| Accreditation | The process of granting recognition or vouching compliance with established criteria( usually refers to recognition of an instituition or program) |
| Ambulatory Pharmacy | A pharmacy generally located within or in close proximity to a clinic, hospital or medical center that provides medical services to ambulatory patients. |
| Automated Dispensing Technology | Electronic storage cabinets or robotics that secure medications and dispense them to nurses or other caregivers when needed. |
| Automated Medication Dispensing Device | A drug storage device or cabinet that contains an inventory of medications that are electronically dispensed so they may be administered to patients in a controlled manner. |
| Bioavailability | The percentage of an administered does of a medication that reaches the bloodstream. |
| Brand-name Drug | A drug that is covered by a patent and is therefore only available from a single manufacturer |
| Buccal | A solid medication dosage form that is placed in the pocket between the cheek and gum and absorbed through the cheek into the bloodstream. |
| Centralized Dispensing Automation | Technology that assists in the selcetion and dispensing of drug products that are located in a central location, such as the pharmacy and that can include robotics and carousels that use bar code scanning to select and label drug products for patients. |
| Centralized Pharmacy | Pharmacy services that are provided from one location(usually centrally located in the hospital). Pharmacy personnel, resources and functions primarily reside within this self contained location. |
| Certification | A voluntary process by which a nongovernmental agency or association grants recognition to an individual who has met certain predetermined qualifications specified by that agency or association. |
| Chain Pharmacy | A pharmacy that is part of a large number of corporately owned pharmacies that use the same name and carry similarly branded OTC products |
| Community Pharmacy | Generally a stand alone pharmacy located within a community that provides meducation services to ambulatory patients. |
| Controlled Substances | Drugs or chemical substances who possession and use are regualted under the Federal Controlled Substance Act and by state controlled substance laws and regualtions. |
| Decentralized pharmacy | Pharmacy services that are provided on or near a patient care area. |
| Dispensing | the act of preparing a medication for use by a patient as authorized by a prescription |
| Drug Distribution services | The system used to distribute medications that begin when the medication is received by the pharmacy and ends when the medication is adminstered to the patient |
| DEA | The federal agency that administers and enforces federal laws for controlled substances and illegal substances such as narcotics and other dangerous drugs. |
| Expectorate | To cough up or spit |
| Generic Drug | a drug that is no longer covered by a patent and is therefore generally available from multiple manufacturers, usually resulting in a significant reduction in cost. |
| HIPAA | Federal legislation enacted to establish guidelines for the protection of patients private health information |
| Inhalant | a fine powder or solution of a drug delivered in a mist through the mouth into the respiratory tract. |
| Intraarticular | injected directly in to the joint |
| Intracardiac | Injected directly into the heart muscle. |
| Intradermal | injected directly into the top layers of the skin |
| Intra muscular | Injected directly into a large muscle mass and absorbed from the muslce tissue into the bloodstream |
| intraperitoneal | administered into the abdominal cavity(Peritoneal space) |
| Intrapleural | Administered into the sac that surrounds the lungs(pleural space) |
| intrathecal | Injected into the space around the spinal cord |
| Intravenous | Injected directly into a vein and therefore immediately available to act in the body. |
| Legend drug | A drug that is required by federal law to be dispensed by prescription only. |
| Licensure | The process which an agency of the government grants permissson to an individual to engage in a given occupation upon finding that the applicant has attained a degree of competency necessary to ensure that public health, safety and wlefare will be protect |
| Lozenge | A hard, disk shapoed solid medication dosage form that contains medication in a sugar base, which is released as the lozenge is held in the mouth and sucked on |
| Mail-order ppharmacy | a pharmadcy that functions like a warehouse, with pharmacists and technicians who dispense medications that are mailed to patients. |
| Medication order | a written, electronic, telephone or verabl request for a patient medication in a inpatient setting. |
| NDC | A unique number assigned to each drug, strength and package size for the purpose of identification. |
| Ointment | A semisolid medicatin dosage form, applied to the skin or mucous membranes. |
| OTC drugs | drug that are available without a prescription |
| Parenteral | a route of medication administered that bypasses the gastrointestinal tract( intravenous, intramuscular or subcutaaneous) |
| Patient Counseling | The act of educating a patient by a pharmacist, regarding the proper use of a prescribed drug, at the time of dispensing. |
| Pharmacist | A health care professional licensed by the state to engage in the practice of pharmacy. |
| Pharmacy satellite | a physical space located in or near a patient care area that can provide a variety of distributive and clinical services. |
| Practice of Pharmacy | the practice of pharmacy is regualted by each state through its pharmacy laws and regulations. |
| Prescription | The written or verbal authorization, by an authorized prescriber, for the use of a particular pharmaceutical agent for an individual patient. |
| Primary prescription label | a label affixed to a dispensed drug product that contains legally required information. |
| Professional | a person who practices an occupation oir vocation that requires specialized training. |
| Professionalism | Actively demonstrating the attitudes, qualities and behaviors of a professional while performing the duties of one's profession |
| Registration | The process of making a list or being enrolled in an existing list. |
| STAT | immediatley |
| Subcutaneous | tissue under the skin |
| Subgingival | administered via the subgingival space which is the space between the tooth and gum/ |
| Sublingual | placed under the tongue where it dissolves and its absorbed into the bloodstream. |
| Technician | An individual skilled in the practical or mechanical aspects of a profession. |
| Topical | applied to the skin, mucous memberanes or other external parts of the body. |
| Transdermal | through the skin; percutaneous |
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