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A patient arrives in the pharmacy with a handwritten prescription for morphine #30 with 10 refills allowed. Morphine is a schedule II controlled substance because it has high potential for abuse. The pharmacy technician should

When entering information into a pharmacy software program, what matters most?

Who provides an official “Do Not Use” list of abbreviations?

Drugs that are being studied in clinical trials prior to approval by the FDA are known as

In a pharmacy context, the definition of capturing is

eMAR are integrated into the electronic health record to assist with an electronic record of the admnistration time of each drug.

A _____  expires when it runs out of refills or when the final date to fill that prescription has passed.

As a pharmacy technician, you may have to interview a patient upon admission into the hospital in order to complete the patient’s medication reconciliation.

Unit-dose packaged medication system has been available since the 1980s

Third-party adjudication is