Terminologies Related to Pharmacy Flashcards
refers to the art, practice, or profession of preparing, compounding, and dispensing medical drugs.
Pharmacy
refers to a health professional who has been registered and issued a valid Certificate of Registration (COR) and Personal Identification Card (PIC) by the PRC and the Professional Regulatory Board of Pharmacy; and
refers to a medication expert that plays a critical role in helping patients get the best results from their medications.
Pharmacist
refers to a written order issued by a physician, dentist, or veterinarian for the appropriate use of medications in a particular patient: an individual plan of care to remedy a medical problem.
To the pharmacist
Prescription
refers to the order for inpatients in hospitals and other institutions written by the physician on forms or entered directly into the institution’s computer system.
To the hospital nurse
Medication Order
refer to pharmaceutical products that pertain to chemical compounds or biological substances, other than food, intended for use in the treatment, prevention, or diagnosis of disease in humans or animals, including the following:
Any article recognized in the official United States Pharmacopeia/National Formulary (USP-NF), Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of USA, Philippine Pharmacopeia, Philippine National Drug Formulary (PNDF), British Pharmacopeia, European Pharmacopeia, Japanese Pharmacopeia, and any official compendium or any supplement to them;
Any article intended for use in diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease of man or animals;
Any article, other than food, intended to affect the structure or any function to the human body or animals;
Any article intended for use, as a component of articles, specified in clauses (1), (2), and (3), not including devices or their components, parts, and accessories; and
Herbal or traditional drugs as defined in Republic Act No. 9502.
Drug
refer to articles of plant or animal origin used in folk medicine which are:
recognized in the Philippine National Drug Formulary;
intended for use in the treatment or cure or mitigation of disease symptoms, injury or body defects in humans;
other than food, intended to affect the structure or any function of the human body;
in finished or ready-to-use dosage form; and
intended for use as a component of any of the articles specified in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv).
Herbal/ Traditional Drug
refers to drugs in their appropriate dosage forms, with assured quality, safety, and efficacy for humans or animals, or both.
Medicines
refer to medicines used for symptomatic relief of minor ailments and which may be dispensed without a prescription.
Over-The-Counter (OTC) Medicines
refer to OTC medicines classified by appropriate government agencies to be obtained only from a licensed pharmacist, with mandatory pharmacist’s advice on their selection and proper use.
Pharmacists-only Medicines
refer to medicines used which can only be dispensed by a pharmacist to a patient, upon the presentation of a valid prescription from a physician, dentist, or veterinarian and for which a pharmacist’s advice is necessary.
Prescription/ Ethical Medicines
refers to the proprietary name given by the manufacturer to distinguish its product from those of competitors.
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Brand Name
refers to the scientifically and internationally recognized name of the active ingredients, as approved by the FDA pursuant to Republic Act No. 6675, otherwise known as the “Generics Act of 1988.”
Generic Name
refer to a substance or preparation intended to be placed in contact with the various external parts of the human body or with the teeth and the mucous membranes of the oral cavity, with a view exclusively or mainly to cleaning them, perfuming them, changing their appearance and/or correcting body odor, and/or protecting the body or keeping them in good condition.
Cosmetics
refer to any instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, appliance, implant, in vitro reagent or calibrator, software, material or other similar or related article intended by the manufacturer to be used alone, or in combination, for human beings.
Medical Devices
refers to processed food products intended to supplement the diet that bears or contains one or more of the following dietary ingredients: vitamins, minerals, herbs, or other botanicals, amino acids, and dietary substances to increase the total daily intake in amounts conforming to the latest Philippine-recommended energy and nutrient intakes or internationally agreed minimum daily requirements; and
It usually is in the form of capsules, tablets, liquids, gels, powders, or pills and not represented for use as a conventional food or as the sole item of a meal or diet or replacement of drugs and medicines.
Halaman, biological origin
Food/ Dietary Supplement
refers to any product that is used to maintain, enhance and improve the healthy function of the human body and contains one (1) or more or a combination of the following: (1) herbal fatty acids, enzymes, probiotics, and other bioactive substances; and (2) substances derived from natural sources, including animal, plant, mineral, and botanical materials in the form of extracts, isolates, concentrates, metabolites, synthetic sources of substances mentioned in (1) and (2). It is presented in dosage forms or in small unit doses such as capsules, tablets, powder, liquids and it shall not include any sterile preparations (i.e. injectables, eyedrops).
Substance of the biological origin
Health Supplement
refer to any preparation containing pharmaceutical substances of common or ordinary use to relieve common physical ailments and which may be dispensed without a medical prescription in original packages, bottles or containers, of which the nomenclature has been duly approved by the FDA
Household Remedies
refers to the sum of processes performed by a pharmacist from reading, validating, and interpreting prescriptions; 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
refers to the act of dispensing or providing medicines in accordance with a prescription or medication order
Preparing the final product
Filling
refers to the sum of processes performed by a pharmacist in drug preparation including the calculations, mixing, assembling, packaging, or labeling of a drug: (i) as the result of a prescription or drug order by a physician, dentist, or veterinarian; or (ii) for the purpose of, or in relation to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis.
Mixing together different ingredients to come up a drug formation
Compounding
refers to the duly integrated and accredited professional organization of registered and licensed pharmacists.
Accredited Professional Organization (APO)
refers to the inculcation of advanced knowledge, skills, and ethical values in a post-licensure specialized or in an inter- or multidisciplinary field of study for assimilation into professional practice, self-directed research, and/or lifelong learning.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
refer to entities licensed by appropriate government agencies, and which are involved in the manufacture, importation, exportation, repacking, and distribution of pharmaceutical products to pharmaceutical outlets.
Pharmaceutical Establishments
any establishment engaged in operations involved in the production of pharmaceutical drug, including preparatory processing, compounding, filling, packing, repacking, altering, ornamenting, finishing, and labeling with the end in view of its storage, sale or distribution,
should not apply to compounding and filling of prescriptions in drugstores and hospital pharmacies.
Own drug and own manufacture
Drug Manufacturer
