Chapter 1 Flashcards
Organization that establishes standards of practice, addresses the quality of patient care and patient safety and establishes standards for health care providers and home medical equipment and accredits hospitals, home, health care agencies, home infusion providers, long-term care pharmacies and ambulatory infusion
TJC-The Joint Commission
What is Medicare
A federally funded program for elderly and disabled
What is a deductible
A preset amount that must be paid by the patient for each benefit period before the insurer will cover additional expenses
What is a material safety data sheet-MSDS
Doc that provides information on hazards of particular substance
Where do used syringes go
Sharps container
Process of mixing a liquid and powder to form a suspension or solution
Reconstitution
3 Absorption base characteristics
Anhydrous
Difficult to spread
Non washable
An order used for specific medications can be active for only a limited period after which a new medication order is required
Automatic stop order
Reference book provides info on drug price
Drug topic Red book
Container that is impervious to air under normal handling, shipment, storage and distribution
Hermetic
Room temperature
15 c - 30 c
Number given by manufacturer to identify particular batch
Lot number
Technician using the dry gum method is most likely compounding
An emulsion
What shod be used to clean laminar flow hood
70% ISO alcohol
Type of Substance composed of 50% dextrose 20% fat and 10% amino acid
Total parenteral
Technique used in mixing two ingredients of unequal quantities
Geometric dilution
What type of ointment base is hydrophor
Oleaginous
What type of copayment is a predetermined amount of money to be paid for each prescription
Fixed
Medication with drug code “A” signify
Drug products FDA does not consider therapeutically equivalent to other pharmaceutically equivalent products
Disease characterized by an imbalance between oxygen supply and demand
Angina
Type of Drug interaction that occurs when one drug increases or prolongs the effect of another drug
Potentiation
Type of diabetes caused by taking various medications
Secondary
Drug reference book provides information on FDA approved drugs, orphan drugs and investigational drugs
Drug facts and comparisons
Used as a PCA pump
CADD- prism PCS pump
