Rx305 (Lesson 2): Building Pharmacies Exam

What is a "pharmacy" in EPIC? - Answer- A record in the PHR master file. What do these records represent? - Answer- A specific place from which you can dispense medications. Your central pharmacy will be built as a pharmacy record in EPIC, but so will your satellite pharmacies, unit floor stocks, ADS cabinets, & even robots or carousels. Define your Central Pharmacy (sometimes referred to as the Main Pharmacy) - Answer- It contains every medication your hospital can dispense & it's the place from which other pharmacies get their inventory. TRUE - Answer- TRUE/FALSE: Your Central Pharmacy is also the "dispense location of last resort.: If the system cannot find a more appropriate dispense location for an order, it will dispense from the Central Pharmacy. What is a PRN Par Level? - Answer- It is an estimate of how many doses of a PRN order are needed over 24 hours. What do you do if you want the system to calculate a PRN par level? - Answer- Check the "Use PRN par level to calculate the number of doses to dispense" box on the "Dispensing Information" form of the Central Pharmacy record. TRUE - Answer- TRUE/FALSE: The PRN par level is dispensed when first or cart doses are needed. If there is no PRN par level for an order, a single dose is dispensed when the first or cart doses are generated. TRUE - Answer- TRUE/FALSE: If you enable PRN Par Level, an order with the frequency of q6h PRN might have a PRN par level of 4. When the order is verified, you will get 4 first doses. On the next cart, if it goes on a cart, you'd get 4 cart doses. TRUE - Answer- TRUE/FALSE: If you don't check the "Use PRN par level to calculate the number of doses to dispense" box, the system would dispense just one first dose when the order is verified & once dose on each cart. If you don't link your Central Pharmacy record to the Location (EAF) record that represents your hospital, what might happen? - Answer- 1. The system will NOT recognize your pharmacy as the Main (Central) Pharmacy for the hospital. 2. Orders for patients admitted to that hospital might not have a dispense location or a package to dispense (which will prevent them from being verified). 3. Not having a Main Pharmacy entered will also prevent IMS from working. What are Satellite pharmacies? - Answer- They are smaller pharmacies that are typically located near the specific units they serve. They are often only staffed during certain times of day.