Pharmacy Technician: Chapter 1
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1. What do pharmacists do?: Counseling patients, monitoring therapy, and performing interventions.
2. What do pharmacy technicians do?: Processing prescriptions and maintaining the department.
3. What duties pharmacy technicians cannot perform?: -Receive oral prescriptions
-Consult prescribers and patients
-Provide confidential patient information to others
-Check medications before dispensing them to patients
-Recommend over-the-counter medications
4. What is HIPAA?: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act: it keeps personal or health information
about patients strictly confidential at all times and you cannot share with anyone else
5. What are the medication bays and how are they arranged?: U-shaped shelves that are
arranged to hold the medications
Medications are either sorted alphabetically by brand or package size/dosage form
6. What is the speed shelf?: "Fast-mover section"//shelf that holds the medications prescribed most often
during the day
7. What is the in-window?: Where you greet the patients and obtain patient information about new
prescriptions and refills
8. What is the out-window?: The counter area where pharmacist counsel patients and you or members of
the staff complete the sales transaction
9. What is the data-entry area?: Work station with 3 different sections: "to-be-entered", "to-be-filled",
and "staging" section.
10. What is the dispensing area?: Where you count, pour, and package
11. What are auxiliary tabs?: Labels that provide reminders to patients
12. What is the clean room?: Controlled environment for compounding sterile products
13. What is the FDA?: Food and Drug Administration: federal agency that supervises the development, testing,
purity, safety, and effectiveness of prescription and OTC medications. They are the final approval
14. What is the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970?-
: Also known as the Controlled Substance Act: regulates manufacturing, distribution, prescribing and dispensing of
controlled substances through the DEA
15. What is the DEA?: Drug Enforcement Administration
16. What is the CSA?: Controlled Substance Act
17. What is the CPSC?: Oversees the 1970 Poison Prevention Packaging Act and requires most prescriptions
for oral use to be dispensed in child-resistant containers unless patients or prescribers request otherwise
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Study online at https://quizlet.com/_hu7054
1. What do pharmacists do?: Counseling patients, monitoring therapy, and performing interventions.
2. What do pharmacy technicians do?: Processing prescriptions and maintaining the department.
3. What duties pharmacy technicians cannot perform?: -Receive oral prescriptions
-Consult prescribers and patients
-Provide confidential patient information to others
-Check medications before dispensing them to patients
-Recommend over-the-counter medications
4. What is HIPAA?: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act: it keeps personal or health information
about patients strictly confidential at all times and you cannot share with anyone else
5. What are the medication bays and how are they arranged?: U-shaped shelves that are
arranged to hold the medications
Medications are either sorted alphabetically by brand or package size/dosage form
6. What is the speed shelf?: "Fast-mover section"//shelf that holds the medications prescribed most often
during the day
7. What is the in-window?: Where you greet the patients and obtain patient information about new
prescriptions and refills
8. What is the out-window?: The counter area where pharmacist counsel patients and you or members of
the staff complete the sales transaction
9. What is the data-entry area?: Work station with 3 different sections: "to-be-entered", "to-be-filled",
and "staging" section.
10. What is the dispensing area?: Where you count, pour, and package
11. What are auxiliary tabs?: Labels that provide reminders to patients
12. What is the clean room?: Controlled environment for compounding sterile products
13. What is the FDA?: Food and Drug Administration: federal agency that supervises the development, testing,
purity, safety, and effectiveness of prescription and OTC medications. They are the final approval
14. What is the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970?-
: Also known as the Controlled Substance Act: regulates manufacturing, distribution, prescribing and dispensing of
controlled substances through the DEA
15. What is the DEA?: Drug Enforcement Administration
16. What is the CSA?: Controlled Substance Act
17. What is the CPSC?: Oversees the 1970 Poison Prevention Packaging Act and requires most prescriptions
for oral use to be dispensed in child-resistant containers unless patients or prescribers request otherwise
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