Last Name: Pharmacy Program Pre-Test * For each question, put a check mark for the one option that you think is correct. 1. A pharmacist receives a security prescription from a known local medical group for promethazine with codeine. The prescription blank has the physician's name, address, phone number, DEA number, and license number, but is signed only by a physician's assistant (PA). The pharmacist's best course of action is to: A) fill the prescription as written. B) return the prescription for the physician's signature. C) call the medical group and request the PA's DEA number. D) not fill the prescription because only a nurse practitioner can write such prescriptions. 2. A hospital pharmacist is checking a technician's work. Which of the following should the pharmacist do to ensure that the proper medication is dispensed? A) Assure that the medication has been charged. B) Verify the expiration date of the medication. C) Verify the product against the actual order. D) Assure that the lot number is clearly printed on the package. 3. A pharmacist is NOT required to initiate patient consultation when: A) the prescription is a refill, but the dose is changed. B) the customer refuses consultation. C) appropriate auxiliary labels have been attached. D) the patient does not speak English. Page 1 of 6
4. In order to make a generic substitution, a pharmacist must do which of the following? A) Notify the patient of the substitution. B) Charge the same or lower price for the generic. C) Place the brand name on the label and write "substitute for." D) Obtain the physician's consent to substitute the product. 5. A pharmacist may transfer a Schedule II controlled drug to: A) Another pharmacy so long as a federal 222 form is completed by the receiving pharmacy. B) Any drug wholesaler so the wholesaler can sell the drug to another pharmacy. C) To a medical assistant who works in a physician s office treating terminally ill patients. D) To a county jail for dispensing by the administrator. 6. You work in a pharmacy for a non-pharmacist owner. Which of the following statements is permitted? A) The owner may order drugs for the pharmacy. B) The owner may check receipt of newly purchased drugs in the pharmacy. C) The owner may check the computer for whether an individual is a customer of the pharmacy. D) The owner may only be in the pharmacy when a pharmacist is present. 7. A pharmacist may return unwanted drugs to: A) Any wholesaler licensed in California. B) If expired, a philanthropic organization seeking drugs for foreign countries. C) To county-run clinics for medically indigent patients. D) A licensed reverse distributor. Page 2 of 6
8. A pharmacist may refill a prescription without a prescriber s authorization only to: A) A California licensed prescriber. B) A family member where the patient has been on long-term maintenance therapy of more than one year. C) A patient who will be harmed without ongoing therapy. D) To a known drug addict seeking a tapering dose to prevent withdrawal. 9. Which of the following is a medication error for which a quality assurance review must be done: A) A technician provides an appropriately filled prescription to the wrong patient. B) A pharmacist identified a filling error during a verification check of a technician s work. C) A patient is dispensed a generic drug when the prescriber called in a brand name drug. D) The technician provides a child-resistant cap on a container that will be dispensed to a senior. 10. A pharmacy may compound a product: A) if it will be sold for less than the commercially manufactured drug. B) that is commercially available if formulated to address a consumer s allergic reaction to peanuts. C) If the pharmacy does not have the commercial product available in stock. D) Whenever it is prescribed by the physician. Page 3 of 6
11. It is time for renewal of your pharmacist license and you have not completed the required continuing education credit. Under board regulations you may: A) voluntarily stop practicing until you complete the CE required. B) renew your license as inactive until you complete the CE required. C) renew your license and make up the shortage of units in the next renewal period. D) request a hardship extension by paying $100 fine along with the renewal fee. 12. A man comes into a pharmacy for the third authorized refill of his son s Vicodin prescription, which he intends to take himself for a similar condition. The pharmacist knows that the father intents to take the medication. Which of the following is the best action by the pharmacist. A) Do not fill the prescription. B) Void the son s refill authorization. C) Refill the prescription with the son s name on the label. D) Refill the prescription with the father s name on the label. 13. A pharmacist in a community pharmacy receives a telephone order in an emergency situation for Percocet 5 from a known physician. How should the pharmacist receive this prescription. A) The pharmacist cannot accept telephone orders for Schedule II medications. B) The pharmacist can reduce the prescription to writing on a triplicate or security paper prescription. C) The pharmacist can transcribe the prescription and have the physician supply a security paper prescription for the medication within 10 days. D) The pharmacist can transcribe the prescription and have the physician supply a security paper prescription for the medication within seven days. Page 4 of 6
14. A prescription faxed to a community pharmacy for fentanyl patches is valid if it is transmitted from which of the following. A) An urgent care center. B) An ambulatory care clinic. C) The prescribing physician s office D) A skilled nursing facility 15. A pharmacist receiving a drug shipment detects a discrepancy between the quantity of sibutramine packages received and the quantity printed on the invoice. The pharmacist should report this to the A) wholesaler by the next business day. B) DEA as soon as the discrepancy is detected C) manufacturer within the next 7 days. D) Board of Pharmacy by the end of the month. 16. After making a bulk compound, the technician asks the pharmacist what the expiration date of the compound should be. The pharmacist should tell the technician that A) the technician is not allowed to compound B) a 180-day expiration date should be used C) a 1-year expiration date should be used. D) the shortest expiration date of the components should be used, but not exceed 180 days. Page 5 of 6
17. Information entered into and maintained in a patient s profile for at least 1 year from the date that the last prescription was filled must include the patient s A) name, address, phone number, age, birth date, insurance coverage, and medication and allergy history. B) full and legal name and address, phone number, age and gender only. C) full name and address, phone number, age, gender, prescription drug use information, drug allergies, and other information provided by the patient or agent that is relevant to safe and effective drug therapy. D) demographic information and prescription medication use only. 18. A patient request a pharmacy to repackage a drug that was previously dispensed by another pharmacy. The pharmacy may repackage the drug provided the A) name of pharmacy repackaging the drug. B) lot number and expiration date from the original dispensed drug C) name and address of both pharmacies are listed D) name of the pharmacy originally dispensed the drug 19. Legal responsibilities of the pharmacist-in-charge (PIC) include which of the following? A) hiring all pharmacy personnel B) determining hours of operation C) signing all third party contracts D) ensuring compliance with laws and regulations Page 6 of 6