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Basic Hospital Pharmacy Practice

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Basic Hospital Pharmacy Practice game quiz
"Follow me on my shift as a pharmacy technician at a large U.S. hospital, and learn about the medications and pharmacy processes being used to help the patients on each floor."

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. We begin our tour in the central pharmacy, where pharmacists, interns, and technicians are hard at work, preparing drugs for their safe and accurate delivery to the nursing floors. Some of these workers may be repackaging medications into unit doses. What is a unit dose drug?
    It comes in oral form only
    A container of 30, 60, or 90 units (to last a month if taken once, twice, or three times a day)
    A single "serving" of a drug, e.g., a tablet or a teaspoon-sized dose of an oral liquid
    A dose for a specific unit of the hospital, e.g., the intensive care unit


2. Before we go upstairs to the medication rooms, let's "tube" some meds. Many hospitals use a pneumatic tube system (like you might see at your local bank drive-through) to send medications, paperwork and lab specimens from one floor to another. We are looking at some drugs that are ready for delivery, but which one is NOT safe to tube?
    The packet containing a Linezolid tablet
    The I.V. bag of furosemide
    The vial of epoetin alfa
    The sealed container of liquid docusate sodium


3. Now that we're finally out of the basement, let's stock the ADM (the automated dispensing machine) in the Emergency Department's medication room. What is an advantage of having an ADM?
    The ADM requires a password or a key so that only authorized persons can take drugs out of it
    The ADM keeps an electronic record of transactions involving controlled substances
    All of these are advantages
    The ADM reduces medication errors by allowing users to dispense the right drug for the right patient at the right time


4. Let us move on to an intensive care floor. Did you remember to bring the TPNs? Good. What does TPN stand for in pharmacy-speak?
    Total Parenteral Nutrition
    Total Pharmaceutical Neutralizer
    Tacrolimus, Pioglitazone, and Neomcyin
    Tylenol and Pepcid for Nurses


5. Next we will proceed to the respiratory intensive care unit. We need to deliver one the drugs we have with us. Which one of these is the respiratory inhalation solution?
    Fluoxetine hydrochloride
    Ipratropium bromide
    Diphenhydramine hydrochloride
    Perphenazine


6. Next stop on the tour: the cardiac specialty floor, where the patients are receiving care for their heart problems. A nurse tells us that she can't find her patient's dose of extended-release metoprolol. We tell her that we will have it sent right away. What should we ask the pharmacy to send up?
    Metoprolol succinate
    Metoprolol injection
    Metoprolol tartrate
    Any of these would be fine


7. Let's stop by and say hello to our friends in the satellite pharmacy outside the operating suites. Which of the following drugs would you be LEAST likely to see on the shelves here?
    Methylprednisolone sodium succinate
    Ondansetron for injection
    Lidocaine 2% for injection
    Senna liquid


8. Yes, I know it is a lot of walking. I know you can make it - the tour is almost over. We are now making our rounds of the newborn intensive care unit. We notice a vial of poractant alfa sitting unattended out on the counter. What should we do?
    Put it in the fridge
    Leave it there on the counter
    Stock it in the ADM
    Return it to the pharmacy for proper disposal


9. Ahhhhh... We have finally returned to the central pharmacy, and are almost ready to go home. Before we can go, we have to return to stock the unused medications that we collected while we were up on the floor. Where should we put this unopened tube of nystatin cream?
    With the topical medications
    With the ophthalmic (eye) medications
    With the oral liquids
    In the refrigerator


10. Oops! We are just on our way out the door for some well-deserved R&R when another technician stops us and asks if we know where the ketamine is stored. What do we tell her?
    It is a special preparation that she will have to compound (mix herself)
    We don't have any because it is only used in veterinary medicine
    It is under lock and key with the other controlled substances
    It is in the freezer


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Compiled May 25 13