PTCB Study Guide: Pharmaceutical Care

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Accreditation is the process in which certification of competency, authority, or credibility is presented. The standards for accreditation are set by a peer review board whose members include faculty from various accredited colleges and universities. 
 
Certification: A voluntary process by which a non-governmental agency or association grants recognition to an individual who has met certain predetermined qualifications specified by the agency or association. 
 
Health-System Pharmacy: The practice of pharmacy that is part of a health-system. A health-system is two or more health care practice settings (e.g., hospital, home care, ambulatory clinic) that have a working relationship with each other and are managed or owned by the same business entity. 
 
Home Health Care: Physician-ordered health care services provided to a patient in the home or other settings in which the patient lives. 
 
Licensure: The process by which an agency of the government grants permission to an individual to engage in a given occupations upon finding that the applicant has attained a degree of competency necessary to ensure that public health, safety, and welfare will be protected. 
 
Medication Therapy Management (MTM): A service or group of services that optimizes therapeutic outcomes for a patient. Such services include: assessment of a patients health status; formulation of a medication treatment plan; selection; initiation, modification, or administration of medication therapy. 
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Pharmaceutical Care involves cooperation between the pharmacist, the patient, and other health care professionals in designing, implementing, and monitoring a therapeutic medication plan. 
 
Pharmacist: a person licensed to prepare and dispense drugs and medicines; druggist; apothecary; pharmaceutical chemist. 
 
Pharmacy: </div>
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<li> Also called pharmaceutics. the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines. </li>
<li>a drugstore. </li>
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A Pharmacy Technician assists pharmacist by performing routine, day-to-day functions of the practice of pharmacy that do not require the judgement of a pharmacist. 
 
Registration: A pharmacy technician may be required to be registered with a state board of pharmacy before being legally able to carry out some pharmacy functions.</div>

Key Terms: Intro to Pharmacy

Accreditation is the process in which certification of competency, authority, or credibility is presented. The standards for accredita...