PHM 110 EXAM QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
DETAILED ANSWERS
The _____ takes responsibility and liability for a pharmacy technician's actions. - Answer
supervising pharmacist
During what era did the task of producing most drugs shift from the pharmacist to the
drug manufacturers? - Answer scientific era
The Department of Defense established: - Answer the first formal training program of
medics and pharmacy technicians
list of drugs approved for use in an institution or insurance program - Answer drug
formulary
focusing on pain relief and quality of life for painful debilitating illnesses - Answer
palliative care
working to transmute of a base metal into silver or gold - Answer alchemy
studying medicinal functions of natural products of animal, plant, and mineral origins -
Answer pharmacognosy
caring for a terminally ill patient - Answer hospice care
process of preparing a drug that is not commercially manufactured - Answer
compounding
,natural, plant-derived drug - Answer herbal medicine
counseling patient on the choice and use of drug therapy and monitoring outcomes -
Answer medication therapy management
Formal training programs for pharmacy technicians : - Answer encourage graduate to
sit for a national certification exam
Another name for a pharmacy is an apothecary; apothecary is derived from: - Answer
"storage place" associated with dry goods, herbs and wine
What task may a pharmacy technician perform in a skilled care facility? - Answer
inspecting the drugs stored in nursing stations
Pharmacists would not be able to offer drug therapy counseling and monitoring without
the help of well- trained? - Answer pharmacy technicians
The pharmacy technician serves as a ___ in the hospital pharmacy. - Answer
pharmacist's assistant
Institutional pharmacies employ what percentage of pharmacy technicians? - Answer
25%
Pharmacy technician's may find themselves doing these tasks: - Answer -contacting
physician's offices
- processing insurance claims
- assembling patient medication profiles
, Early pharmacy technicians were: - Answer the chemist and apothecary apprentices
To obtain certification as a pharmacy technician, one must: - Answer pass a pharmacy
technician national certification exam
Pharmacetics is defined as the study of: - Answer how drug dosage formulations are
manufactured to be released in the body
State boards of pharmacy regulate the : - Answer requirements for pharmacy
technicians practice
To help keep health care cost low, health maintenance organizations (HMOs) : - Answer
have a formulator of approved drugs
The original Coca-Cola recipe contained: - Answer opium
Antibiotics were some of the first drugs mass produced and marketed by: - Answer
pharmaceutical manufacturers following WWII
The Exam for certification as Pharmacy Technicians (ExCPT) is: - Answer sponsored by
the National Healthcare
Association
One of the first manufactured and mass marketed synthetic drug ,was made in the
1800s, was? - Answer Bayer Aspirin
What medicinal plant has been used by healthcare providers int eh Middle Ages for
heart problems? - Answer foxglove
Radioactive pharmaceuticals will be prepared in a: - Answer nuclear pharmacy
DETAILED ANSWERS
The _____ takes responsibility and liability for a pharmacy technician's actions. - Answer
supervising pharmacist
During what era did the task of producing most drugs shift from the pharmacist to the
drug manufacturers? - Answer scientific era
The Department of Defense established: - Answer the first formal training program of
medics and pharmacy technicians
list of drugs approved for use in an institution or insurance program - Answer drug
formulary
focusing on pain relief and quality of life for painful debilitating illnesses - Answer
palliative care
working to transmute of a base metal into silver or gold - Answer alchemy
studying medicinal functions of natural products of animal, plant, and mineral origins -
Answer pharmacognosy
caring for a terminally ill patient - Answer hospice care
process of preparing a drug that is not commercially manufactured - Answer
compounding
,natural, plant-derived drug - Answer herbal medicine
counseling patient on the choice and use of drug therapy and monitoring outcomes -
Answer medication therapy management
Formal training programs for pharmacy technicians : - Answer encourage graduate to
sit for a national certification exam
Another name for a pharmacy is an apothecary; apothecary is derived from: - Answer
"storage place" associated with dry goods, herbs and wine
What task may a pharmacy technician perform in a skilled care facility? - Answer
inspecting the drugs stored in nursing stations
Pharmacists would not be able to offer drug therapy counseling and monitoring without
the help of well- trained? - Answer pharmacy technicians
The pharmacy technician serves as a ___ in the hospital pharmacy. - Answer
pharmacist's assistant
Institutional pharmacies employ what percentage of pharmacy technicians? - Answer
25%
Pharmacy technician's may find themselves doing these tasks: - Answer -contacting
physician's offices
- processing insurance claims
- assembling patient medication profiles
, Early pharmacy technicians were: - Answer the chemist and apothecary apprentices
To obtain certification as a pharmacy technician, one must: - Answer pass a pharmacy
technician national certification exam
Pharmacetics is defined as the study of: - Answer how drug dosage formulations are
manufactured to be released in the body
State boards of pharmacy regulate the : - Answer requirements for pharmacy
technicians practice
To help keep health care cost low, health maintenance organizations (HMOs) : - Answer
have a formulator of approved drugs
The original Coca-Cola recipe contained: - Answer opium
Antibiotics were some of the first drugs mass produced and marketed by: - Answer
pharmaceutical manufacturers following WWII
The Exam for certification as Pharmacy Technicians (ExCPT) is: - Answer sponsored by
the National Healthcare
Association
One of the first manufactured and mass marketed synthetic drug ,was made in the
1800s, was? - Answer Bayer Aspirin
What medicinal plant has been used by healthcare providers int eh Middle Ages for
heart problems? - Answer foxglove
Radioactive pharmaceuticals will be prepared in a: - Answer nuclear pharmacy
