Chapter 14: Pharmacy

• Compounding


  The actual mixing of ingredients to form powders, tablets, capsules, ointments, and solutions
• Consultant pharmacists


  Pharmacists who travel to nursing homes or other facilities to monitor patients’ drug therapy
• Internship


  Supervised, practical experience to aid professional development.
• Medication profile


  A computerized record of the customer’s drug therapy.
• Nuclear pharmacist


  Pharmacist who prepares and dispenses radioactive pharmaceuticals
• Nutrition support pharmacist

  Pharmacist that helps determine and prepare formulas given intravenously.
• Pharmaceutical chemistry

  Physical and chemical properties of drugs and dosage forms. Also known as pharmaceutics.
• Pharmaceutical industry pharmacist


  Pharmacist that works the sales, research and development, or marketing divisions of pharmaceutical companies.
• Pharmaceuticals


  Medicinal drugs
• Pharmaceutics

  The branch of pharmacology concerned with the preparation, use, or sale of medicinal drugs.
• Pharmacoeconomics

  The analysis of the costs and benefits of different drug therapies.
• Pharmacology

  The study of the effect drugs have on the human and animal bodies.
• Pharmacotherapists

  Health professional that specializes in drug therapy and works closely with physicians.
• Pharmacy administration

  The study of business aspects of pharmacy use and management.
• Pharmacy aides


  Often a clerk or cashier who primarily answers telephones, handles money, stocks shelves, and performs other clerical duties
• Pharmacy technicians

  Technician who helps licensed pharmacists provide medication and other healthcare products to patients.
• Radiopharmacists

  Applies the principles and practices of pharmacy and radiochemistry to produce radioactive drugs that are used for diagnosis and therapy
• Side effects

  A secondary and usually adverse effect of a medication or treatment.
• Pharmacist Licensure Exam: NAPLEX
• NAPLEX: North American Pharmacist Licensure Exam