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INSTITUTIONAL PHARM.
Study Stack Chapter 9
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Medical record number | Used instead of using the name, address, and telephone number for identification in the hospital. |
| Floor stock | Supplies of medication on hand in certain units of a hospital . |
| eMAR | Electronic medication administration record. Overall improved and constant communication between nurses and the pharmacy ultimately benefits patient care. |
| CCU | Coronary care unit |
| Things to know about Controlled Substance at the hospital . | After the technician has confirmed the pharmacy-controlled substances' count for the day, he or she must sign out each drug onto a dispensing sheet that is used to deliver the controlled substances. A pharmacist must check all narcotics before they leave the pharmacy. A pharmacist must also verify all final counts. Monthly or bimonthly inventories are taken, depending on state regulations. |
| CPOE | Computerized physician order entry. Medication orders can be clearly identified, and the computer systems check new medications against current medications for interactions or contraindications. |
| Crash cart or code carts | Contain injectable medications used for a code (cardiopulmonary distress) situation. Mostly contains medications for adult, pediatric and infant or neonate . |
| Stat | order must be immediately filled, it should take precedence over all other orders, Normally, a stat order can be filled in 5 to 15 minutes, depending on the preparation time required for the medication. |
| Satellite pharmacies: | Expedite order preparation and delivery. The pharmacist's role is to monitor regulatory compliance and to oversee all medications dispensed from the particular satellite to ensure optimal patient care. |
| HEPA | High-efficiency particulate air used in IV preparation hoods, is a high-efficiency particulate air filter. |
| Several options for hospital pharmacy that is not open 24 hours . | Contingent policies and regulations are in place that allow specific nursing personnel to have limited access to an inpatient pharmacy to obtain needed medications. In other facilities, an on-call pharmacist may provide the necessary services in times of less-than-full operation. Still other pharmacies may have off-site pharmacies that will provide courier services to deliver needed orders. |
| Parenteral Medications | Bypass the digestive system but are intended for systemic action. Most commonly describes medications administered by injection, such as intravenously or intramuscularly. |
| Things that a pharmacy technician needs to do after a medication is used from a crash cart. | When a tray has been used, the pharmacy technician takes a new tray, retrieves the used tray, and refills the missing contents. Also, at this time the technician checks expiration dates on all medications. These dates are listed on a preprinted form. |
| satellite pharmacy technician | Responsible for all tasks related to a small, isolated pharmacy, such as answering telephones, ordering and putting away stock, preparing parenteral medications, transcribing, pulling all medication orders, and making deliveries to nursing stations. |
| How to distinguish between types of hospital? | The size of a hospital may be thought of as the number of beds available for patient use. There are non-profit and for-profit hospitals. Other factors that differentiate hospitals from one another are their capabilities for diagnosis, surgery, and outpatient services. |
| Parenteral medications | Bypass the digestive system but are intended for systemic action. The term parenteral most commonly describes medications administered by injection, such as intravenously or intramuscularly. |
| Benefits of using an automated dispensing machine . | 1) Inventory control: Inventory sheets can be generated in the pharmacy. (2) Decreased wait time: Nurses can directly access the patient's necessary drugs from the ADS. No starter dose needs to be sent to the floor from the pharmacy. (3) Accuracy: A nurse that accesses the ADS machines is only allowed to take the specific medication(s) ordered for his or her patient. In this way, dispensing a wrong medication is less likely. |
| ASAP | as soon as possible, is not normally as urgent as a stat order. However, these orders should be placed in front of regular new orders to ensure fast processing by the pharmacist. |
| SO | standing order , is a written protocol for drugs to be administered or treatments to be provided in a specific situation |
| The Joint Commission (TJC) | Accreditation is required to accept Medicare and Medicaid payments. |
| L & D | Labor and Delivery |
| ED | Emergency Department |
| NSY | Nursery |
| NICU | Neonatal Intensive Care Unit |
| PACU | Postanesthesia care unit |
| CCU | Coronary Care Unit |
| ICU | Intensive Care Unit |
| ORTHO | Orthopedics |
| PED | Pediatrics |
| OR | Operating room |
| *Code red* | Fire. |
| Code triage internal* | An internal disaster. |
| Code orange | *Hazardous material spill/release. |
| Code silver* | Person with a weapon and/or hostage situation. |
| Code pink | *nfant abducItion. |
| Code triage external | *An external disaster. |
| Code yellow* | Bomb threat. |
| Code blue | *Medical emergency-adult. |
| Code purple* | Child abduction or missing patient. |
| Code white | *Medical emergency-pediatric. |
| Code gray* | Combative person. |
| medication orders | written for administration in a hospital or institutional setting. |
| investigational drugs | are delivered to the central pharmacy where they are signed in by the pharmacist and separately stored from other drugs. Each drug has a logbook. The investigational drug technician will assist in preparing, maintaining, monitoring, and auditing investigational drug study agents and related pharmacy documentation. |
| CADM | means computerized adverse drug event monitoring and is a component in many Point-of-Entry systems. |
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