Professions

1. What is the definition of pharmacy?

The science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, monitoring, and reviewing drugs. 

2. What is the goal of pharmaceutical services?

To provide service to patients that meets their needs by increasing the extent to which pharmacies help individual patients achieve the best medication. 

3. What are the 3 different types of career paths in pharmacy?

Pharmacist, pharmacy tech, and pharmacy assistant

4. What are the educational requirements for the 3 career paths?

• Pharmacist: Doctorate 

• Tech: Highschool diploma or GED 

• Assistant: For formal education, just be at age.

5. What are the licensure requirements for the 3 career paths?

• Pharmacist: A doctor of pharmacy degree

• Tech: 18 years or older, earned a high school diploma, undergo a criminal background check, formal training 

• Assistant: Older than 18, and basic training on like HIV/AIDS

6. What is the difference between certification and licensure?

• Certification: Documents your skills in a particular field. It helps you acquire the education you need and proves you’ve met 3rd party standards. 

• Licensure: Document that is legally required in order to work in certain industries. Legal right and responsibility to engage in an activity or occupation 

7. What are the different branches of pharmacy practice?

   1. Academia pharmacist

   2. Hospital pharmacist

   3. Military pharmacist 

   4. Industry pharmacist 

   5. Wholesale pharmacist

   6. Government pharmacist 

8. What are the differences in the responsibilities of the various pharmacy personnel? (List all 3)

   1. Pharmacist: dispense medication, provide information to patients, deliver and label medication

   2. Tech: compounding medication, preparing prescriptions, preparing intravenous admixtures 

   3. Assistant: operating cash register, answering phone calls, doing clerical work in the pharmacy

9. What is the name of the (2) organizations that Pharmacy Technicians can obtain national certification?

   1. PTCB: Pharmacy technician certification board 

   2. APhA: American pharmacists association 

10. What is the name of the test that gives a pharmacist their national certification?

• NAPLEX: North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination 

11.  Patient safety is #1  priority.

• Provide 

12.  What are some examples of additional services that pharmacies can offer?

13.  The goal of drug control is what?

Drug control is when the government tightly controls drugs because they may be abused or cause addiction. 

• Education youth to reject illegal drugs as well as alcohol and tobacco

14. How is this accomplished?

    1. By adding schedules onto drugs. For example, fentanyl is schedule 2 meaning that it has a high risk of abuse. Schedule 1 has drugs such as cannabis, heroin, and lysergic acid diethylamide. 

15.  What is continuing education and why is it important?

    1. Continuing education means that after you get your license or certificate, you learn more about the practice field. 

16. How often do pharmacy personnel have to renew their license?

    1. Every two years 

17.  What is a code of ethics?

• Set of values ethical principles, and ethical standards to which professionals aspire and by which their actions can be judged 

18. What are professional organizations? Why would someone be interested in joining one?

    1. American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

    2. These organizations offer multiple ways to gain interpersonal skills