LAB Flashcards
refers to the proprietary name given by the manufacturer to distinguish its product from those of competitors.
Brand Name
means a method of secret writing that substitutes other letters or characters for the letter intended or transposes the letter after arranging them in blocks or squares.
Cipher
means a system of words or other symbols arbitrarily used to represent words.
Code
means a characteristic style or symbols kept from the knowledge of others or disclosed confidentially to but one of few.
Secret Keys
a counterfeit is one which is deliberately and fraudulently mislabeled with respect to identity and/or source. Counterfeiting can apply to both branded and generic drug products.
Counterfeit Drugs
refer to either prohibited drugs or regulated drugs which require a special prescription form, the use of which is monitored by the dangerous drugs board
Dangerous Drugs
refers to the sum of processes performed by a pharmacist from reading, validating, and interpreting prescription; preparing; packaging; labeling; record keeping: dose calculations; and counseling or giving information, in relation to the sale or transfer of pharmaceutical products, with or without a prescription or medication order.
Dispensing
refer to pharmaceutical outlets where registered drugs are dispensed directly to the end users or patients.
Drug Outlets
a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist; “he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly” prescription drug, prescription medicine, prescription.
Ethical Drugs
means dispensing the patient’s/buyer’s choice from among generic equivalents, in example., finished pharmaceutical products having the same active ingredients(s), same dosage form and same strength as the prescribed drug.
Generic Dispensing
are not covered by the patent protection and which are labelled solely by their international non-proprietary on generic name.
Generic Drug
immediate container or wrapping in which any substance is contained for consumption.
Immediate Container
means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon immediate container or the wrapper of a drug package.
Label
is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer.
Medication Error
written directions provided by a prescribing practitioner for a specific medication to be administered to an individual. The prescribing practitioner may also give a medication order verbally to a licensed person such as a pharmacist or a nurse.
Medication Order
refer to medicines used for symptomatic relief of minor ailments and which may be dispensed without a prescription
OTC Drugs
means dispensing less than the total number of units prescribed
Partial Filling of Prescription
patient counseling means the oral communication by the pharmacist of information to the patient or caregiver, to ensure proper use of drugs and devices.
Patient Counseling
a prescription is not an order for medication which is dispensed for immediate administration to the ultimate user (e.g., an order to dispense a drug to an inpatient for immediate administration in a hospital is not a prescription)
Prescription Order
which includes opium and its components and derivatives, such as heroin and morphine; coca leaf and its derivatives, mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and other substances producing similar effects; Indian hemp and its derivatives; all preparations made from any of the foregoing; and other drugs, whether natural or synthetic, with the physiological effects of a narcotic drug.
Prohibited Drug
which includes opium and its components and derivatives, such as heroin and morphine; and coca leaf and its derivatives, mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and other substances producing similar effects; Indian hemp and its derivatives; all preparations made from any of the foregoing; and other drugs, whether natural or synthetic, with the physiological effects of a narcotic drug.
Regulated Drugs
means a written permission or authorization from DDB to prescribe dangerous drug preparations in any form or drug preparations containing controlled chemicals.
S-2 License
a label added on to a dispensed medication package by a pharmacist in addition to the usual prescription label.
Auxiliary Labels
a patient who stays in hospital while under treatment.
In-Patient
a patient who receives medical treatment without being admitted to a hospital.
Out-Patient
traditional symbol for prescription. Use to line up the other parts of the Rx
Rx
sig – write or let it be labeled (Latin terms: signa). Instructions for the patient.
Signa
an informal colloquial term for a prescription
Script
refers to the instruction and special care required in the used of the drug product to avoid undesired effects and to ensure the safe and effective use of the drug.
Caution
entering through the dermis, or skin, as in administration of a drug applied to the skin in ointment or patch form.
Transdermal
is a document included in the package of a medication that provides information about that drug and its use.
Package Insert
the measured quantity of a therapeutic agent to be taken at one time. An amount of something likened to a prescribed or measured quantity
Dose
is defined as the physical form of a dose of a chemical compound used as a drug or medication intended for administration or consumption. Are the means by which drug molecules are delivered to sites of action within the body.
Dosage Form
Is the path by which the a drug, fluid, poison or other substances is taken into the body. They are generally classified by the location at which the substance is applied.
Route Of Administration
Is the sealing mechanism of the container, or the pharmaceutical product.
Also known as stoppers or bungs
Drug Closure
An act regulating and modernizing the practice of pharmacy in the Philippines, repealing for the purpose republic act numbered five thousand nine hundred twenty-one (RA No. 5921),
RA 10918 - Pharmacy law
Objectives:
▪ The standardization and regulation of pharmaceutical education
RA 10918 - Pharmacy law