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Module 1
Section 2 Key Terms and definitions
Question | Answer |
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11. The tasks performed by the pharmacy technician allow the pharmacist to spend more time providing which professional and clinical services? | Counseling patients, monitoring therapy, performing interventions |
12. the two general types of activities performed by a pharmacy technician | preparing prescriptions and maintaining the pharmacy department |
13. Three tasks a pharmacy technician can perform when a patient arrives at a community pharmacy counter | accept new prescriptions from patients, obtain patient health information, enter data in the computer that includes patient, prescriber, and prescription information |
14. two tasks a pharmacy technician can perform over the phone | receive a refill requests from patients, receive refill authorizations from nurses and physicians |
15. three pharmacy technician tasks associated with filling prescriptions | retrieve medications from the shelves, print prescription labels and accompanying patient medication guides, prepare medications for a pharmacist to check |
16. four pharmacy technician activities associated with maintaining the pharmacy department | maintain medication and equipment inventory, stock pharmacy supplies, keep accurate records for the pharmacy department, help patients locate over the counter(OTC) medications available without a prescription |
17. educational requirements for pharmacists | graduation with a Pharm D degree (two year s of prepharmacy classes and four years of study at an accredited college), completion of an internship, passing a pharmacy law exam administered by a state board of pharmacy. |
18. Education paths for pharmacy technician | formalized pharmacy technician training programs (certificates, diplomas, associate of applied science degrees)., on the job training (formal employer based programs or job shadowing), high school career and technical education programs. |
19. examples of pharmacy technician duties that might be within scope of practice depending on state laws | receiving verbal prescription orders from prescribers, transferring prescriptions from one pharmacy to another, verifying prescription medications that do not require determinations based on clinical judgment, immunizing patients |
20. what is a possible consequence of violating patient confidentiality? | Exposing the pharmacy to a lawsuit |