PPD Level 2 Quiz 2

Apothecary

custom-made medication

Soda Fountain

health care provider vs. merchandiser conflict

Pharmaceutical Care

residency training

Pharmaceutical Care

mandated patient counseling

Pharmaceutical care

PharmD degree requirement

What is professional identity formation?

The process of developing the knowledge, values, behaviors, and sense of belonging needed to think, act, and feel like a pharmacist.

What are the three key ingredients of professional identity formation?

Think, act, and feel like a pharmacist.

What is imposter phenomenon, and what strategies help overcome it?

Doubting your abilities or feeling undeserving despite evidence of success. Strategies: recognize accomplishments, challenge negative self-talk, seek mentors and feedback, stop unhealthy comparisons, and accept mistakes as learning.

What is professionalism?

Consistently displaying the ethical values, attitudes, conduct, and responsibility expected of your profession.

List at least four characteristics of professional behavior.

Accountability, integrity, respect, reliability, confidentiality, and effective communication.

In relation to career well-being, why is it important to clarify your values?

To choose work that matches what matters to you, improving purpose, satisfaction, decision-making, and work-life fit.

What is talent according to CliftonStrengths?

A naturally recurring pattern of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied

What are the general characteristics of the four CliftonStrengths domains

Executing: getting things done.

Influencing: persuading and leading others.

Relationship Building: connecting with people and building trust.

Strategic Thinking: analyzing, learning, and generating ideas.

What are three characteristics of people who understand and use their strengths in their work?

They tend to be more engaged, more productive, and more satisfied with work and life.

What are the key steps in the drug development and approval process? What happens in each step?

Discovery: identify a candidate drug.

Preclinical: laboratory and animal safety testing.

IND: request permission to begin human studies.

Phase I: initial safety and dosing; Phase II: early effectiveness and safety; Phase III: larger confirmatory

trials.

NDA/BLA and FDA review: evaluate approval.

Phase IV: monitor safety after marketing.

Define brand, generic, reference product, biosimilar, orphan drug, and EUA.

Brand: drug sold under a proprietary name.

Generic: equivalent product with the same active ingredient as a reference drug.

Reference product: original licensed biologic used to compare a biosimilar (or reference listed drug for a generic).

Biosimilar: highly similar biologic without clinically meaningful safety or effectiveness differences.

Orphan drug: medication designated for a rare disease.

EUA: Emergency Use Authorization for qualifying emergency use; not full FDA approval.

What are the three key skills that underlie effective time management? Describe each skill.

Awareness: understand how you spend time.

Arrangement: plan and organize your time.

Adaptation: adjust plans when circumstances change.

What are the six domains of well-being tracked in PPD? Briefly define each.

Career: purpose and enjoyment in daily work.

Social: supportive relationships.

Financial: managing money and financial security.

Physical: health and energy.

Community: connection and involvement where you live.

Overall well-being: overall quality of life and life satisfaction.

Define acute, chronic, inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory care, institution, private insurance,

Medicaid, Medicare, and self-pay.

Acute: sudden or short-term condition; Chronic: long-lasting condition.

Inpatient: formally admitted; Outpatient: not admitted.

Ambulatory care: healthcare provided without hospital admission.

Institution: healthcare facility, such as a hospital or nursing home.

Private insurance: coverage through a private insurer.

Medicaid: joint federal-state coverage for eligible groups, often based on income.

Medicare: federal insurance mainly for adults 65+ and certain qualifying individuals.

Self-pay: patient pays directly.

What is required at minimum for a prescription order to be valid? What if it is a controlled substance?

Standard prescription: patient name, issue date, drug name, strength/form, quantity, directions, authorized prescriber identity, and valid signature/authorization.

Controlled substance: additionally include patient and prescriber addresses, prescriber DEA number, and all required controlled-substance elements; Tennessee generally requires electronic prescribing of Schedules II-V unless an exception applies.

What are the limits on refills and prescription expiration dates for controlled and non-controlled medications in Tennessee?

Non-controlled: refills as authorized; generally no more than 1 year for at-will refill authorization.

Schedule II: 0 refills; no general federal fill-by expiration date.

Schedules III-IV: maximum 5 refills within 6 months of issue, whichever comes first.

Schedule V: subject to authorized refills and applicable state/product rules; not automatically the same 5-refill/6-month rule as III-IV