Study Set Content:
play a key role in handling different health products in different field of practice. They ensure that of best quality of products will be used by patients to treat a disease, reduce its symptoms and prevent and slow down its progress. They also provide key information needed by the patient in using their medicines.
Pharmacists
plays a key role in treating diseases, reduce symptoms, prevent diseases and slow down the worsening of the illness. It is commonly used by doctors in treating their patients
MEDICATION
The medications are handled by law by
pharmacists
Pharmacist refers to a health professional who has been registered and issued a valid
Certificate of Registration (COR) and Professional Identification Card (PIC)
Pharmacist refers to a health professional who has been registered and issued a valid Certificate of Registration (COR) and Professional Identification Card (PIC) by the
PRC and Professional Regulatory Board of Pharmacy.
refers to a person who assists 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 Technician
refers to a person who assists the pharmacist in different aspects of pharmacy operation based on established standard operating procedures and processes, with a minimum degree of independence or decision making and may have supervised interaction with patients.
Pharmacy Assistant
refers to a person who assists the pharmacist 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 Aide
Pharmacists are UNIQUELY QUALIFIED because:
1. they are the “drug experts” 2. they understand the principles of quality assurance as they are applied to medicines 3. they appreciate the intricacies of the distribution chain and the principles of efficient stock- keeping and stock turnover 4. they are familiar with the pricing structures applied to medicinal products that obtain within the markets in which they operate 5. they are the custodians of much technical information on the products available on their domestic market; 6. they are able to provide informed advice to patients with minor illnesses and often to those with more chronic conditions who are on established maintenance therapy; 7. they provide an interface between the duties of prescribing and selling medicines and, in so doing, they dispose of any perceived or potential conflict of interest between these two functions.
refers to a pharmaceutical product that pertains to chemical compound/s or biological substance/s, other than food, intended for use in the prevention, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment or relieve symptoms of a disease in humans or animals.
DRUG
MEDICINE refers to a drug in their appropriate:
dosage forms • with assured quality • safety and • efficacy for humans or animals, or both
PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCT refers to
drugs • medicines • biologicals • pharmaceutical & biopharmaceutical products • veterinary products • veterinary biologics and • veterinary medicinal products
refers to a medicine 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/Ethical Medicine
refers to a medicine used for symptomatic relief of minor ailments and which may be dispensed without a prescription.
Over-the-counter (OTC) Medicine
efers to over-the-counter medicine classified by appropriate government agencies that can be obtained only from a pharmacist, with mandatory pharmacist’s advice on its selection and proper use.
Pharmacist-only OTC Medicine
Dangerous Drug refers to either
Prohibited drug
Regulated drug
which includes opium and its active components and derivatives, such as heroin and morphine; coca leaf and its derivatives, principally cocaine; alpha and beta eucaine; hallucinogenic drugs, such as mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and other substances producing similar effects; Indian hemp and its derivate; all preparations made from any of the foregoing; and other drugs, whether natural or synthetic, with the physiological effects of a narcotic drug
Prohibited drug
opium active components and derivatives
heroin and morphine; coca leaf
coca leaf and its derivatives, principally
cocaine; alpha and beta eucaine;
hallucinogenic drugs, such as
mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and other substances producing similar effects
