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MODULE 1: KEY TERMS
Introduction and basic overview
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Adulterated: | Describing a drug that does not conform to standards of quality, strength, or purity |
| American Hospital Formulary Services Drug Information: | A collection of single-drug entity medication monographs available in print and online versions developed by the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists |
| Antibiotics: | A substance derived from a mold, bacterium, or synthetic process that inhibits the growth of other microorganisms |
| Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services: | A U.S. federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) that provides health insurance coverage through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace |
| Child-resistant containers: | Containers used to prevent children from using unauthorized medications |
| Compounding: | Combining active and inactive ingredients to form a pharmaceutical product, sterile or nonsterile, that is not commercially available |
| Confidentiality: | Ensuring that patient information is given only to people who are authorized to view the information |
| Controlled substance: | Drug with the potential for abuse or physical and or psychological dependence |
| Drug Facts and Comparisons: | A drug information resource available in print or online versions that contains many facts about product groups and individual products and makes comparisons among them. |
| Food and Drug Administration: | A U.S. federal agency that supervises the development, testing, purity, safety, and effectiveness of prescription and over-the-counter medications |
| Institute for Safe Medication Practices: | A nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing medication errors. It serves as an educating body for health care professionals and consumers regarding medication safety and error prevention through newsletters, recommendations, and safety alerts |
| Medication guides: | A reference tool developed for particular medication classes and medications to help patients avoid serious adverse events. |
| National Association Boards of Pharmacy: | A national organization that addressed issues facing the practice of pharmacy with representation from each state board of pharmacy, U.S. territories, the Bahamas, the 10 Canadian provinces, and Australia |
| Occupational Safety and Health Administration: | An agency of the U.S. Department of Labor that ensures safe and healthful working conditions by establishing and enforcing standards |
| Over-the-counter: | Medications considered safe to take or use without a prescription. These medications typically are stocked outside of the pharmacy department layout |
| Package insert: | Complete labeling and dispensing information provided by the product manufacturer that includes product description, indications for use, contraindications, warnings, precautions, adverse reactions, dosage and administration, contents, etc |
| Physicians' Desk Reference: | A reference that lists brand-name and generic-name medications with use, side effects, and other pertinent dispensing information |
| Reconstitutables: | Medication that requires the addition of distilled water or other diluents prior to dispensing and administering. Because of their short shelf lives, these medications are usually reconstituted immediately before they are dispensed |
| State Boards of Pharmacy: | Pharmacy boards regulate the operation of pharmacy departments, the practice of pharmacy by pharmacists, and the performance of technical functions by pharmacy technicians |
| State Departments of Public Health: | A state agency that regulates hospitals in that state, including hospital pharmacy departments through the inspection of facilities to ensure compliance with its guidelines |
| The Joint Commission: | An organization that sets standards and accredits organizations such as hospitals, ambulatory health care, behavioral health care, critical access hospitals, home care, long-term care facilities, and laboratories |
| United States Pharmacopeia: | A nonprofit organization that establishes and publishes standards for the identity, strength, quality and purity of medicines, food ingredients, and dietary supplements |
| USP - Drug Information: | A publication available in two versions, patient and professional, providing prescribing information, interactions, allergies, warnings, and side effects |
| USP - National Formulary: | A combination publication of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and the National Formulary (NF). National formulary contains the standards for chemical and biological drug substances, dosage forms. compounded preparations, excipients, etc |
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