Ch 61 A 11 Pharmacy

Question 1

Administer

Answer 1

The direct application of a drug to the body of a patient or research subject by injection, inhalation, ingestion or any other means as a result of an order of a licensed practitioner

Question 2

Board

Answer 2

The board of pharmacy

Question 3

Compounding

Answer 3

Preparing, mixing, assembling, packaging or labeling a drug or device as the result of a licensed practitioner’s prescription or for the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching or chemical analysis and not for sale or dispensing. Also includes preparing drugs or devices in anticipation of a prescription based on routine, regularly observed prescribing patterns

Question 4

Confidential information

Answer 4

Information in the patient’s pharmacy records accessed, maintained by or transmitted to the pharmacist or communicated to the patient as part of patient counseling and may be released only to the patient or as the patient directs; or to those licensed practitioners and other authorized health care professionals as defined by regulation of the board when, in the pharmacist’s professional judgment, such release is necessary to protect the patient’s health and well-being; or to other persons authorized by law to receive the information, regardless of whether the information is on paper, preserved on microfilm or stored on electronic media;

Question 5

Consulting pharmacist

Answer 5

A pharmacist whose services are engaged on a routine basis by a hospital or other health care facility and who is responsible for the distribution, receipt and storage of drugs according to the state and federal regulations

Question 6

Custodial care facility

Answer 6

A nursing home, retirement care, mental care or other facility that provides extended health care

Question 7

Dangerous drug

Answer 7

A drug that is required by an applicable federal or state law or rule to be dispensed pursuant to a prescription or is restricted to use by licensed practitioners; or that is required by federal law to be labeled with any of the following statements prior to being dispensed or delivered:

(1) “Caution: federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription.”;
(2) “Caution: federal law restricts this drug to use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian.”; or
(3) “RX only”;

Question 8

Device

Answer 8

An instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant or similar or related article, including a component part or accessory, that is required by federal law to bear the label, “Caution: federal or state law requires dispensing by or on the order of a physician.”

Question 9

Dispense

Answer 9

The evaluation and implementation of a prescription, including the preparation and delivery of a drug or device to a patient or patient’s agent in a suitable container appropriately labeled for subsequent administration to or use by a patient

Question 10

Distribute

Answer 10

The delivery of a drug or device other than by administering or dispensing

Question 11

Drug

Answer 11

(1) an article recognized as a drug in an official compendium or its supplement that is designated from time to time by the board for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in humans or other animals;
(2) an article intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of diseases in humans or other animals;
(3) an article, other than food, that affects the structure or a function of the body of humans or other animals; and
(4) an article intended for use as a component of an article described in Paragraph (1), (2) or (3) of this subsection

Question 12

Drug regimen review

Answer 12

An evaluation of a prescription and patient record for:

(1) known allergies;
(2) rational therapy contraindications;
(3) reasonable dose and route of administration;
(4) reasonable directions for use;
(5) duplication of therapy;
(6) drug-drug interactions;
(7) adverse drug reactions; and
(8) proper use and optimum therapeutic outcomes;

Question 13

Pharmacy Intern

Answer 13

A person licensed by the board to train under a pharmacist

Question 14

Hospital

Answer 14

An institution that is licensed as a hospital by the department of health

Question 15

Labeling

Answer 15

The process of preparing and affixing a label to a drug container exclusive of the labeling by a manufacturer, packer or distributor of a nonprescription drug or commercially packaged prescription drug or device; and which label includes all information required by federal or state law or regulations adopted pursuant to federal or state law

Question 16

Licensed practitioner

Answer 16

A person engaged in a profession licensed by a state, territory or possession of the United States who, within the limits of the person’s license, may lawfully prescribe, dispense or administer drugs for the treatment of a patient’s condition

Question 17

Repackager

Answer 17

A person that repackages a drug, including a medicinal gas, and that, in accordance with board rules, has a valid registration as a drug establishment with the United States food and drug administration

Question 18

Significant Adverse Drug Event

Answer 18

A drug-related incident that may result in harm, injury or death to the patient

Question 19

Third-party logistics provider

Answer 19

A person that provides or coordinates warehousing or other logistics services of a product in interstate commerce on behalf of a manufacturer, wholesale distributor or dispenser of a product but which person does not take ownership of the product nor have responsibility to direct the sale or disposition of the product

Question 20

Wholesale distributor

Answer 20

A person engaged in the wholesale distribution of prescription drugs, including own-label distributors, private-label distributors, jobbers, brokers, manufacturers’ warehouses, distributor’s warehouses, chain drug warehouses, wholesale drug warehouses, independent wholesale drug traders and retail pharmacies that conduct wholesale distribution.