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Mod 6 Week 1 Guide
Mod 6 Week 1 Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Immunocompromised | A condition in which the immune system is not functioning normally |
| According to USP 797 what is not allowed in a clean room? | Jewelry, fingernail polish, artificial nails, heavy makeup, cell phones, or perfume |
| What are the areas that must be swabbed with 70% isoprophyl alcohol? | Vial tops, Ampule necks, tops of bottles, ports of any IV or IVPB bags |
| When reconstituting a powdered vial what materials do you need? | Powdered vial, Diluent vial, Alcohol swabs, Appropriate size syringes, Vented needle, Two regular needles, IV bag |
| What are the 5 Blood Products? | 1. Albumin; 2. Plasma Protein Faction; 3. Immunoglogulin; 4. Factor VIII; 5. Factor IX |
| What is Albumin and what is it used to treat? | It is a sterile solution for a single dose administration. It is used to treat hypovolemic shock |
| What is Plasma Protein Fraction and what is it used to treat? | It is a sterile solution for single dose intravenous administration containing 5% plasma proteins. It is used to prevent and treat hypovolemic shock and in some cases of severe hypoproteinuria |
| What is Immunoglobulin and what is it used to treat? | It is a sterile, lyophilized, single dose prepatation of immune globulin. It is indicated for patients with primary defective or suppressed immune systems |
| What is Factor VIII and what is it used ot treat? | It is a sterile, lyophilized, single dose concentrate of antihemophilic factor. It is used to prevent and control bleeding in patients with Factor VIII deficientcy due to hemophilia-A or acquired Factor VIII deficiency |
| What is Factor IX and what is it used to treat? | It is a sterile, lyophilized single dose concentrate of AHF intented for IV administration to treat Factor IX deficiency |
| Drug Contraindication | Conditions under which a drug is not indicated and should not be administered |
| Drug-drug interaction | Reaction that occurs when two or more drugs are administered at the same time |
| Medication Error | Error made in the process of prescribing, preparing, dispensing, or administering drug therapy |
| Therapeutic Duplication | Administration of two drugs that produce similar effects and side effects |
| What are the 4 Mechanisms of Drug Interactions? | 1. Absorption; 2. Distribution; 3. Metabolism; 4. Elimination |
| Studies indicated that between _____ and ____ of ADRs are caused by drug-drug interactions | 7% and 22% |
| Pharmacy technicians play a key role in entering __________ into the pharmacy's prescription filing software. | Patient data |
| When takeing a patient's medication history, ask the following: | 1. Are you taking and OTCs; 2. Are you taking any herbal supplements or vitamins; 3. What other prescription drugs are you taking? |
| CDER | Center for Disease Evaluation and Research |
| Errors made in ordering medications are made by.... | Physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, dentists, and other health professionals |
| What are the 4 forms of miscommunication? | 1. Poor Handwriting; 2. Confusion between drugs with similar names; 3. Misuse of Zeroes and decimal points; 4. Confusion of Metric and other dosing units or inappropriate abbreviations |
| What are some drugs that can be confused? | Zyrtec-Zantac; Zantac-Xanax; Keppra-Kaletra; Flomax-Volmax; Zyprexa-Celexa; Serzone-Seroquel |
| What are 2 forms of misinformation? | Errors of Omission and Errors of Commissions |
| Most common medication errors made by health care professionals are? | Inaccurate Transcribing, Insufficient Monitoring of drug therapy, Improper Medication Preparation, Improper Labeling, Product Selection Errors, Bagging Errors, Miscellaneous dispensing errors |
| What are 5 ways to avoid medication errors? | 1. Alert the pharmacist of all drug interactions and therapeutic duplications; 2. Develop a routine to avoid errors associated with distractions; 3. Check identification or persons picking up prescriptions; 4. Verify all caluclations; 5. Check all labels |
| Additive Effect | Increased drug effect that is produced when a second similar drug is added to therapy that is greater than the effects prodeced by either drug alone |
| Antagonism | Drug-drug interactions or drug-food interactions that caused decreased effects |
| Drug-Disease contraindication | Administration of the drug should be avoided because it may worsen the patient's medical condition |
| Drug-Food interation | Altered drug resonse that occurs when a drug is administered with certain foods |
| Potentiation | Process where one drug, Acting at a sperate site or via a different mechanism of action, increase the affect of another drug, yet produces no affect with administered alone |
| Synergistic | Drug-Drug or drug-food interation between 2 drugs that produces an effect that is greater than would be produced if either drug were administered alone |
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