Medical Office Pharmacology: Review For Medical Assistant Students and Professionals
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The need for well trained medical assistants remains high. At any given moment there are over 100,000 job offers for medical assistants and other healthcare professionals available across the nation, hundreds in every state! Most disciplines require knowledge of medical office procedures and some pharmacology....
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Prescription Parts Labeling Exercise
Now that you have had a basic pharmacology review and have learned about prescriptions and parts of a prescription you should now be able to label numbers 1 through 5 below. Careful, some of them are main parts of a prescription, some are just general other important information that must be on a prescription to be valid!
Consider the following:
The main differences between Roman and Arabic numerals are that Roman numerals lack a symbol for zero, and that numeral placement within a number can sometimes indicate subtraction rather than addition.
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1. _______________________________
2. _______________________________
3. _______________________________
4. _______________________________
5. _______________________________
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(This exercise is an actual element of the online course #6001 - Basic Concepts in Pharmacology and Principles of Medication Administration!)
Answers:
1. Name of the prescriber (doctor or pharmacy)
2. Name of the patient ( or patient information)
3. Inscription, the body of the prescription, consisting of one or more of the following subdivisions, the basis, or chief ingredient; the adjuvant, to assist the action of the basis; the corrective, to correct some injurious quality of the other ingredients; and the Vehicle or excipient, to give it a suitable form. Also in the inscription you find the dose and dosage form, such as tablet, suspension, capsule, syrup.
4. Signatura
5. DEA number of the prescribing physician
After this quick review of parts of a prescription test yourself further by answering some basic questions on medications in this simple pharmacology test. Take the Medications Quiz now!
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To report illegal prescription drug sales and/or rogue pharmacies operating on the Internet call the anonymous Pharmaceutical Drug Abuse Hotline: 1-877-RxAbuse (1-877-792-2873).
More info at: DEA Website
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CONSUMER ALERT:
Buying drugs online may be illegal!
Federal law prohibits buying controlled substances such as narcotic pain relievers (e.g., OxyContin®, Vicodin ®), sedatives (e.g., Valium®, Xanax®, Ambien®), stimulants (e.g., phentermine, phendimetrazine, Adderall®, Ritalin®) and anabolic steroids (e.g., Winstrol®, Equipoise®) without a valid prescription from a doctor. This means there must be a bonafide doctor-patient relationship, which by most state laws requires a physical examination to receive a prescription. Prescriptions written by "cyber doctors" relying on online questionnaires are not legitimate under the law.
Buying controlled substances online without a valid prescription may be punishable by imprisonment under Federal law and it is a felony to import drugs into the United States and ship to a non-DEA registrant.
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