Nurses' station
- work station for medical personnel located on a nursing unit
Inpatient pharmacy
- a pharmacy located in a hospital that services only those patients in the hospital and its ancillary areas
Pharmacy satellite
- a branch of the inpatient pharmacy responsible for preparing, dispensing, and monitoring medication for specific patient areas
Central Pharmacy
- the main inpatient pharmacy in a hospital that has pharmacy satellites
- it is the place where most of the hospital's medications are prepared and stored
Batching
- preparation of large quantities of unit dose oral solutions/suspensions or small volume parenteral for future use
Clean room
- area designed for the preparation of sterile products
Unit inspection
- a review of a nursing unit to ensure compliance with hospital medication policies
Outpatient Pharmacy
- a pharmacy attached to a hospital that services patients who have left the hospital or who are visiting doctors in a hospital outpatient clinic
Formulary
- a list of drugs stocked at the hospital that have been selected based on therapeutic factors as well as cost
Closed Formulary
- a type of formulary that requires physicians to order only those medications on the formulary list
Non-Formulary
- drugs not on the formulary list and not regularly stocked in the pharmacy
Therapeutic interchange
- a policy approved by the hospital P&T Committee that allows the pharmacist to change a medication order to a therapeutically equivalent formulary medication
Pneumatic tube
- a system that shuttles objects through a tube using compressed air as the force; commonly used in hospitals for delivery of medication
Electronic medical record (EMR) or electronic health record (EHR)
- a computerized patient medical record
CPOE
- a system in which the physician or agent of the physician enters directly into the hospitals computer system
Standing order
- a standard medication order for patients to receive medication at schedule intervals
PRN order
- an order for medication to be administered only on an as needed basis
STAT order
- an order for medication to be administered immediately
Medication administration record (MAR)
- a form that tracks the medications administered to a patient
Final filter
- a device used to remove particulate matter
- the filter should be placed at the end point of an IV line just before it enters a patient's vein
Drip rounds
- a process in which the pharmacy technician goes to specific nursing units to find out what IV drips will be needed later that day
Drug recall
- the voluntary or involuntary removal of a drug product by the manufacturer
- it usually only pertains to a particular shipment or lot number
Par
- the amount of drug product that should be kept on the pharmacy shelf
- each drug product may have a different par value
- par levels may also be assigned to drug products in automated dispensing cabinets
Emergency drug procurement
- to quickly obtain a medication not currently in stock in the pharmacy in situations where the drug is urgently needed
Extemporaneous compounds
- medications that must be prepared following a specific recipe or formula, usually because they are not available commercially
Bulk compounding log
- a record of medications that are compounded in the pharmacy for nonspecific patients
- information must include a list of all the ingredients, amounts used, manufacturer, lot numbers and expiration dates of each specific ingredient
Reconstitute
- addition of water or other diluent to commercially made drug bottles or vials in order to make a solution or suspension from a premade powder form of the drug
- include oral or parenteral drug
Unit dose
- a package containing the amount of a drug required for one dose
Automated dispensing system
- a system in which medications are dispensed from an automated unit at the point of use
IVPB (intravenous piggyback)
- a small volume parenteral that will be added into or "piggyback" into a large volume parenteral (LVP)
Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)
- protein, carbohydrates and essential nutrients to be given to the patient through an IV line
Epidural
- s sterile, preservative free medication administered into a patient's epidural space (located near the spinal cord and backbone)
Short stability
- medication that will expire soon after preparation (ie. within 1-6 hours after preparation)
Code Cart
- a locked cart of medications and other medical equipment designed for emergency use only
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