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Insurance&Inventory
Studystack Chapter 15
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ASHP ( American Society of Health-System Pharmacists) | An association of pharmacists, pharmacy students, and technicians practicing in hospitals and health care systems, Has a significant focus of "advancing the health and well-being" of patients and maintains that optimizing the role of technicians is critical to this goal? |
| PTCB(Pharmacy Terchnician Certification Board) | An organization that offers certification for pharmacy technicians in the United States. |
| Quality assurance | Maintenance of a desired level of quality in a service or product, especially by means of attention to every stage of the process (by adhering to quality control procedures) of delivery or production. |
| Medication error | Any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm. |
| Medication Error prevention | Methods used by pharmacy, medicine, nursing, and other allied health professionals to prevent medication errors. |
| United States Pharmacopeia Convention (USP) | An independent organization that strives to ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and dietary supplements by setting standards and certification processes. |
| Quality Control (QC) | A procedure or set of procedures intended to ensure that a manufactured product or performed service adheres to a defined set of quality criteria or meets the requirements of the client or customer. |
| Automated Dispensing System | Electronic system used to dispense medications. |
| Reconsititution or compounding area | → preparation of compounds |
| IV room area | → Specially trained personnel prepare aseptic products, |
| Automated dispensing systems area | → Maintain a formulary of stocked items in the ADS, |
| Emergency or disaster medication supply room | → Store antibiotics, maintenance medication, and batteries for public emergency, |
| Long-term care packaging area | → package 30-day supply in a blister card, |
| Inventory area and store room | → Order inventory and stock supply room, |
| Data entry area | → new prescription entry, |
| Stocking area for nonclinical area for other departments such as central supply or EMS | → Stock supplies for central supply and EMS, |
| Physical standard required by state board of pharmacy. | appropriate lighting hot and cold running water amount of space |
| Duties typically performed by technician assigned to the front counter area in a community pharmacy. | process prescription orders answer overflow of phone calls drive-thru window |
| OR tray and crash cart restocking | → Stock and replace OR trays and crash cart trays, |
| Store front or OTC area | → focus on the customer, |
| pick up area | Area where last opportunity to check for accuracy of prescriptions and verify patient information is performed at a community pharmacy. |
| Counseling and pick-up area | → identify patients who require counseling from the pharmacist, |
| Repackaging area | → Repackage bulk medications to unit dose |
| CPOE area | This area of an institutional pharmacy is where pharmacists perform data-entry and answer questions from other health care workers. |
| Filling area with pick-up window and pneumatic tube , | → Fill orders manually and deliver to requesting department |
| advantage of using bar coding and NDC technology | diversion can be avoided medication can be tracked medication errors can be avoided |
| Narcotics area | → Help maintain storage and inventory for controlled substance |
| hospital departments that would e stocked with pharmacy inventory | EMS OR MED/SURG |
| Durable and nondurable medical equipment area | → familiar with DME and bill for DME supplies |
| Inventory pharmacy technician in a hospital pharmacy is typically responsible for the following tasks. | pricing and negotiation medication order entry daily inventory control |
| Result if workflow in a pharmacy is interrupted constantly or there is a lack of attention to processes. | inventory wouldn't be ordered errors would occur the pharmacist would miss counseling opportunities |