PPP intro notes

Question 1

Pharmacy in general is a profession there are job in this world and there are professions.

Question 2

A job is any paid work that someone does

Question 3

Profession is something more specialized its something that offers _______, prestige, and other opportunities for growth, its also regulated. Profession of pharmacy requires education, requires formal training.

Answer 3

autonomy

Question 4

Pharmacy regulated by a number of bodies like Food and Drug Administration (FDA), DEA(Drug Enforcement Administration), Joint Commission regulates certain activities in hospital settings. State Boards of pharmacies, any state has its own board of pharmacy and those regulate the actions of the pharmacy in that specific state, national association of the boards of pharmacies of NABP regulates all of those states…state of board of pharmacy

Question 5

Commitment to always improving, always getting better, always showing creativity and innovation, ways to make the whole profession its self better not just yourself but the profession…pharmacist #1 reachable professional because of that we come with a need to hold and keep our patients trust as well as leadership accountability

Question 6

Because with pharmacy we have autonomy, prestige, we have done this formal education it means that we owe patients trust and ethics and leadership we also have more responsibilities and expectations than somebody in a job

Question 7

Patients would not trust someone wearing rolled up jeans with flip flops, jeans that are sagging, ripped jeans

Being a professional comes with the expectation that your going to act and dress professionally

Question 8

Pestle and mortar seen as the symbol of pharmacy and medicine because these are used to compound medicine

Skill of apothecary and pharmacist to manufacture medicinal preparations has been consistent throughout centuries

Question 9

Secundum arterm meaning ________________ and it frequently used to describe doing something in the accepted manner of a skill or a trade and in medicine its saying use your skill and judgment

Answer 9

according to the art

Question 10

Pharmacy dates back to antiquity and it involved alongside medicine however modern pharmacy as an independent science emerged in the 19th century. Pharmaceutical industry has its origins in the second half of the 19th century and from traditional remedies to corner drug stores the history of pharmacy reflects our reliance on drugs for health and wellbeing

Question 11

The origins of prescription can be traced back to ancient times

Question 12

The world’s oldest known prescription recorded in clay tablets in Mesopotamia around 2400 BC

Question 13

Praescriptus: means before ________…Before ordering,appointing, directing, commanding or prescribing

Answer 13

writing

Question 14

Rx means ____________

Answer 14

prescription

Question 15

Recipere- “to ____” or “______thus”

Answer 15

take

Question 16

The prescription is information from the prescriber telling you the pharmacist what they would like, for whom, how they would like it, when they would like it, and who they are, think of that information as there appointing, or ordering for their prescription

Question 17

It’s important for pharmacists the gatekeepers of these medications from information from the prescriber then to the patient its important for pharmacists to make sure that the person that’s sending us that information is legitimately allowed to send that information and the way we can figure that out is to make sure that they have an assigned identifier from an agency that we know is capable of issuing such identifier one of them is from the drug enforcement administration or DEA and they assign identifiers to healthcare providers called DEA numbers they consist of ______ letters followed by _________ numbers.

Answer 17

2 letters

7 numbers

Question 18

For a long time we see DEA numbers on almost all prescriptions but the DEA would prefer that the DEA registration numbers only be used for authenticating and tracking medications for ___________so instead of sending in a prescription for amlodipine for hypertension with the prescribers

Answer 18

controlled substances

Question 19

DEA number on it…they would prefer that instead it held for only medications such as alprazolam for anxiety but holds a controlled schedule or morphine which is pain and also holds a controlled schedule…its important to know if DEA number is legitimate

Question 20

1st letter on DEA number refers to ____________type so whoever is being assigned this DEA number so it could be a physician assistant, a physician, nurse, nurse practitioner, a hospital whoever the registrant has a specific assigned letter

Answer 20

registrant

Question 21

The other type of national identifier is national provider identifier or NPI and those are assigned by the center for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS)

Question 22

2nd letter of DEA will stand for the first letter of whoever the registrant is _______ name

Answer 22

last name

Question 23

Due to so much fraud in the world it’s important to determine the validity of a controlled substance providers identifier than say somebody that is sending a prescription for amlodipine