FIPP Final EXAM Questions and Answers With Verified Solutions 2025
Why does a pharmacist care? - ✔✔We advocate for patients to live the healthiest life they could, thus
we must be mindful of ways they pursue health.
Complementary medicine - ✔✔Treatment used in combination with western medicine
-Anxiety with medication + aromatherapy
Alternative medicine - ✔✔Finding a means of treatment that does not involve medications
-severe neck pain + chiropractor instead of NSAID
Integrative medicine - ✔✔One healthcare team/provider who's making all recommendations
-Provider encouraging medication + chiropractor
Holistic medicine - ✔✔Aspects of medicine that focuses on physical + spiritual wellness
Allopathic medicine - ✔✔Western medicine, MD, DO (VS)
Biologically based approaches - ✔✔Diets Herbs Vitamins
Manipulative and body-based therapies - ✔✔Massage Chiropractor Osteopathy
Mind-body interventions - ✔✔Yoga Spirituality Relaxation
Alternative medical systems - ✔✔Homeopathy Naturopathy Ayurveda
Energy therpaies - ✔✔Reiki Magnets Qigong
,Faith healing - ✔✔(Mind body interventions)
Guided imagery / Prayer
Homeopathy - ✔✔(Alternative (Whole Body) Systems)
Like treating like, patients treated symptoms w/ something that caused similar symptoms
ex: allergies treated by small amounts of onions
-such small amounts considered safe; <6.023x10^-23
Traditional Chinese Medicine - ✔✔Beware of possible medication interactions
Personal Health Literacy - ✔✔degree which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use
information and services to inform health related decisions and actions for themselves and others
-not related to general reading ability or years of education
Digital Health Literacy - ✔✔The ability to seek, find, understand, and appraise health information from
electronic sources and apply the knowledge gained to addressing or solving a health problem
Organization Health Literacy - ✔✔the degree to which organizations equitably enable individuals to find,
understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for
themselves and others.
Pharmacy Educating Interns
Prose - ✔✔Ability to search, comprehend, and use information from continuous texts
-examples:
Magazines/Blog
Patient Handout (Brochures & Paper with Prescription)
Document - ✔✔Ability to search, comprehend, and use information from non-continuous texts
, Quantitative (Numeracy) - ✔✔Ability to identify and perform computations using numbers embedded in
printed materials
examples:
Taxes and Paperwork
Hospital bill
Wg Base Dose
Insulin Base Dose
What is it like for patients with low health literacy - ✔✔Scary feeling of confusion, big words, that are
not understood
Average reading skills of adults in the US are between the ____ grade - ✔✔8th grade
% Proficient with Health Literacy - ✔✔12%
Most health materials are written at the ___ grade level or above - ✔✔10th grade
National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) - ✔✔measures the health literacy of adults living in the
United States. Health literacy was reported using four performance levels: Below Basic, Basic,
Intermediate, and Proficient
Why should pharmacists care about health literacy - ✔✔-Reduce medication error morbidity / mortality
rates
-To help patients become more active in their medication management
-To build trust
Consequences of Low Health Literacy - ✔✔-Higher risk of death
-More emergency room visits and hospitalizations
-Less likely to adhere to treatment and self-care
-More medication or treatment errors
Why does a pharmacist care? - ✔✔We advocate for patients to live the healthiest life they could, thus
we must be mindful of ways they pursue health.
Complementary medicine - ✔✔Treatment used in combination with western medicine
-Anxiety with medication + aromatherapy
Alternative medicine - ✔✔Finding a means of treatment that does not involve medications
-severe neck pain + chiropractor instead of NSAID
Integrative medicine - ✔✔One healthcare team/provider who's making all recommendations
-Provider encouraging medication + chiropractor
Holistic medicine - ✔✔Aspects of medicine that focuses on physical + spiritual wellness
Allopathic medicine - ✔✔Western medicine, MD, DO (VS)
Biologically based approaches - ✔✔Diets Herbs Vitamins
Manipulative and body-based therapies - ✔✔Massage Chiropractor Osteopathy
Mind-body interventions - ✔✔Yoga Spirituality Relaxation
Alternative medical systems - ✔✔Homeopathy Naturopathy Ayurveda
Energy therpaies - ✔✔Reiki Magnets Qigong
,Faith healing - ✔✔(Mind body interventions)
Guided imagery / Prayer
Homeopathy - ✔✔(Alternative (Whole Body) Systems)
Like treating like, patients treated symptoms w/ something that caused similar symptoms
ex: allergies treated by small amounts of onions
-such small amounts considered safe; <6.023x10^-23
Traditional Chinese Medicine - ✔✔Beware of possible medication interactions
Personal Health Literacy - ✔✔degree which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use
information and services to inform health related decisions and actions for themselves and others
-not related to general reading ability or years of education
Digital Health Literacy - ✔✔The ability to seek, find, understand, and appraise health information from
electronic sources and apply the knowledge gained to addressing or solving a health problem
Organization Health Literacy - ✔✔the degree to which organizations equitably enable individuals to find,
understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for
themselves and others.
Pharmacy Educating Interns
Prose - ✔✔Ability to search, comprehend, and use information from continuous texts
-examples:
Magazines/Blog
Patient Handout (Brochures & Paper with Prescription)
Document - ✔✔Ability to search, comprehend, and use information from non-continuous texts
, Quantitative (Numeracy) - ✔✔Ability to identify and perform computations using numbers embedded in
printed materials
examples:
Taxes and Paperwork
Hospital bill
Wg Base Dose
Insulin Base Dose
What is it like for patients with low health literacy - ✔✔Scary feeling of confusion, big words, that are
not understood
Average reading skills of adults in the US are between the ____ grade - ✔✔8th grade
% Proficient with Health Literacy - ✔✔12%
Most health materials are written at the ___ grade level or above - ✔✔10th grade
National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) - ✔✔measures the health literacy of adults living in the
United States. Health literacy was reported using four performance levels: Below Basic, Basic,
Intermediate, and Proficient
Why should pharmacists care about health literacy - ✔✔-Reduce medication error morbidity / mortality
rates
-To help patients become more active in their medication management
-To build trust
Consequences of Low Health Literacy - ✔✔-Higher risk of death
-More emergency room visits and hospitalizations
-Less likely to adhere to treatment and self-care
-More medication or treatment errors
