Study Set Content:
Ø Refers to that part of quality assurance which ensures that the quality of a pharmaceutical product is maintained through adequate control throughout the warehousing.
Good Warehousing Practice
Ø Refers to a system of quality assurance aimed at ensuring that products are consistently manufactured to a quality appropriate for their intended use. It is thus concerned with both manufacturing and quality control processes and procedures.
Good Manufacturing Practice
Ø Refers to an international ethical and scientific quality standard for designing, conducting, recording, and reporting trials that involve the participation of human subjects.
Good Clinical Pharmacy Practice
Ø Refer to persons who assist the pharmacists in the different aspects of pharmacy operation based on established standard operating procedures and processes, with very minimal degree of independence or decision making and without direct interaction with patients;
PHARMACY AIDES
Ø Refer to persons who assist the pharmacists in different aspects of pharmacy operation based on established standard operating procedures and processes, with very minimum degree of independence or decision making and may have supervised interaction with patients;
PHARMACY ASSISTANTS
Ø Refer to persons who assist the pharmacists in compounding and dispensing of medicines in community, hospital, institutional and industrial settings or engaged in other activities under the supervision of the pharmacist;
PHARMACY TECHNICIANS
refers to medicines used for symptomatic relief of minor ailments and which may be dispensed without a prescription.
OVER THE COUNTER DRUGS
· refers to medicines which can only be dispensed by a pharmacist to a patient, upon the presentation of a valid prescription from a physician, dentist, or veterinarian and for which a pharmacist’s advice is necessary.
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
refers to over-the-counter medicines classified by appropriate government agencies that can be obtained only from a pharmacist, with mandatory pharmacist’s advice on their selection and proper use.
PHARMACIST-ONLY OTC MEDICINES
Restrictions:
In medicines containing 1 mg or less per milliliter or gram and when supplied by a pharmacist in a pack containing not more than 30 grams for the treatment of comedo, popular and pustular acne (acne vulgaris) of the face, chest or back.
Use Green Cross Health Adapalene algorithm.
Adapalene [Rx]
A prescription medicine with exemption
Restrictions: In medicines containing 1% or less and more than 0.02% Adrenaline.
Adrenaline [POM]
Restrictions:
No product with consent to distribute is currently available which contains Brompheniramine on its own. For oral use adults & children over 2 years of age other than medicines used for treatment of insomnia. Original pack containing no more than 10 dosage units.
Pharmacy only: For oral use in medications for adults and children over 6 years of age when combined in the same container with 1 or more other therapeutically active ingredients either when in the bedtime dose of a day/night pack containing Brompheniramine or when at least 1 of the other active ingredients is a sympathomimetic decongestant.
Brompheniramine [POM]
refer to any preparation containing pharmaceutical substances of common or ordinary use to relieve common physical ailments and which may be dispensed without a prescription in original packages, bottles or containers, of which the nomenclature has been duly approved by the FDA.
HOUSEHOLD REMEDIES
Ø refers to processed food products intended to supplement the diet that bear or contain one or more of the following dietary ingredients: vitamins, minerals, herbs, or other botanicals, amino acids, and dietary substances to increase the total daily intake in amounts conforming to the latest Philippine recommended energy and nutrient intakes or internationally agreed minimum daily requirements.
· FOOD/DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS
Ø It usually is in the form of capsules, tablets, liquids, gels, powders, or pills and not represented for use as a conventional food or as the sole item of a meal or diet or replacement of drugs and medicines, as defined under RA No. 9711.
· FOOD/DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS
refers to a substance or preparation intended to be placed in contact with the various external parts of the human body or with the teeth and the mucous membranes of the oral cavity, with a view exclusively or mainly to cleaning them, perfuming them, changing their appearance and/or correcting body odor, and/or protecting the body or keeping them in good condition, as defined under RA No. 161 97110.
COSMETICS
· RA 10918 SECTION 33
Ø All prescriptions and pharmacist-only-otc medicines shall be filled, compounded and dispensed only by a registered and licensed (blank), in accordance with the phil. Practice standards for rphs, dispensing guidelines and other standards…
· pharmacist
Ø Completely filled prescriptions should be surrendered to the pharmacist for (blank)…
recording
Ø Partial filling of prescriptions less than the total quantity indicated in the prescription shall be (blank).
allowed
Ø It is the responsibility of the RPh dispensing the last quantity completing the prescription to keep the prescription according to proper (blank).
prescription recording guidelines
