NH MPJE REVIEWS ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET
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✔✔Who does a pharmacy permit appoint as the one responsible for the pharmacy? -
✔✔The PIC is the one who has accepted responsibility for the safe and effective
operation of the pharmacy (and follow all laws)
✔✔What is considered an unauthorized practice of pharmacy? - ✔✔1. Person engaged
in the practice of pharmacy without first being licensed by board
2. impersonating a pharmacist or falsely claiming to be one
3. owning, managing or conducting any store, either not being a licensed RPh or having
one in his employ
4. advertising with the words "drug store, pharmacy, apothecary, drugs, drug, medicine,
medicine shop, etc" when not authorized to run
✔✔What needs to be on the premise of a pharmacy? - ✔✔Pharmaceutical utensils
technical equipment
professional references
✔✔In terms of lawfulness, what is it considered if someone who isn't a licensed
pharmacist, but in a registered pharmacy, does the action of a pharmacist with any
prescription drugs? - ✔✔Unlawful
✔✔Who is considered an authorized person who can possess prescription drugs or be
dispensed them? - ✔✔Any person, but not limited to, a family member/caregiver, who
has the intent to deliver the prescription drugs to the person to whom the prescription
drugs are lawfully prescribed
✔✔Which practices have more limited actions in regards to compounding/dispensing? -
✔✔Physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses (NPs)
✔✔Midwives certified can have what privileges? - ✔✔Obtain, possess, administer Rx
drugs to meet immediate medical needs of their patients
, ✔✔A registered nurse or PA can do what for compounding drugs? - ✔✔1. Making
dilutions from concentrated solutions or packets already proportionate
2. Adding prepared sterile additives to a final product
3. Entering an institutional pharmacy in hospital in the absence of pharmacist to obtain
drugs needed for emergency situations
✔✔What can a pharmacy student do? - ✔✔When supervised, can perform the duties of
a pharmacist under the direction of the licensed pharmacist
✔✔When can EMTs possess and use emergency medications? - ✔✔Upon receipt of
orders from a supervising physician or emergency/trauma advanced practice RN which
can be relayed via:
1. orders transmitted directly by telephone/radio/other communication medium
2. by standing order designated in a protocol
✔✔Law enforcement can have possession of prescription drugs in the purpose of what?
- ✔✔Collection, storage, and disposal in drug takeback programs
✔✔What natural remedies won't be prevented from sale? - ✔✔Alum, blue vitriol, borax,
camphor gum, copperas, Epsom salts, glauber salts, castor oil, oil of turpentine,
sulphur, cottonseed oil, saltpeter, household ammonia, flavoring extracts, and unofficial
chlorinated solutions
✔✔Do licensed pharmacies have to establish a CQI program? (continuous quality
improvement) - ✔✔Yes
✔✔What is the purpose of CQI programs? - ✔✔1. Assesses errors that occur in the
pharmacy
2. allows the pharmacy to take appropriate actions to prevent/reduce likelihood of errors
3. non-punitive method that seeks to identify weaknesses in systems and processes to
improve operations
✔✔CQI is comprised of what? - ✔✔Staff members of the pharmacy, including
pharmacists, registered pharmacy interns/technicians, clerical staff, and other personnel
deemed necessary by PIC or the consultant pharmacist on record
✔✔CQI has what requirements of the PIC or consultant pharmacist? - ✔✔Ensure that a
review of quality-related events occurs at least every 3 months that considers whether
the errors had environment or system-based contributing factors
✔✔CQI information should not include what: - ✔✔Due to confidentiality, no patient
names or employee names shall be included in this summarization
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✔✔Who does a pharmacy permit appoint as the one responsible for the pharmacy? -
✔✔The PIC is the one who has accepted responsibility for the safe and effective
operation of the pharmacy (and follow all laws)
✔✔What is considered an unauthorized practice of pharmacy? - ✔✔1. Person engaged
in the practice of pharmacy without first being licensed by board
2. impersonating a pharmacist or falsely claiming to be one
3. owning, managing or conducting any store, either not being a licensed RPh or having
one in his employ
4. advertising with the words "drug store, pharmacy, apothecary, drugs, drug, medicine,
medicine shop, etc" when not authorized to run
✔✔What needs to be on the premise of a pharmacy? - ✔✔Pharmaceutical utensils
technical equipment
professional references
✔✔In terms of lawfulness, what is it considered if someone who isn't a licensed
pharmacist, but in a registered pharmacy, does the action of a pharmacist with any
prescription drugs? - ✔✔Unlawful
✔✔Who is considered an authorized person who can possess prescription drugs or be
dispensed them? - ✔✔Any person, but not limited to, a family member/caregiver, who
has the intent to deliver the prescription drugs to the person to whom the prescription
drugs are lawfully prescribed
✔✔Which practices have more limited actions in regards to compounding/dispensing? -
✔✔Physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses (NPs)
✔✔Midwives certified can have what privileges? - ✔✔Obtain, possess, administer Rx
drugs to meet immediate medical needs of their patients
, ✔✔A registered nurse or PA can do what for compounding drugs? - ✔✔1. Making
dilutions from concentrated solutions or packets already proportionate
2. Adding prepared sterile additives to a final product
3. Entering an institutional pharmacy in hospital in the absence of pharmacist to obtain
drugs needed for emergency situations
✔✔What can a pharmacy student do? - ✔✔When supervised, can perform the duties of
a pharmacist under the direction of the licensed pharmacist
✔✔When can EMTs possess and use emergency medications? - ✔✔Upon receipt of
orders from a supervising physician or emergency/trauma advanced practice RN which
can be relayed via:
1. orders transmitted directly by telephone/radio/other communication medium
2. by standing order designated in a protocol
✔✔Law enforcement can have possession of prescription drugs in the purpose of what?
- ✔✔Collection, storage, and disposal in drug takeback programs
✔✔What natural remedies won't be prevented from sale? - ✔✔Alum, blue vitriol, borax,
camphor gum, copperas, Epsom salts, glauber salts, castor oil, oil of turpentine,
sulphur, cottonseed oil, saltpeter, household ammonia, flavoring extracts, and unofficial
chlorinated solutions
✔✔Do licensed pharmacies have to establish a CQI program? (continuous quality
improvement) - ✔✔Yes
✔✔What is the purpose of CQI programs? - ✔✔1. Assesses errors that occur in the
pharmacy
2. allows the pharmacy to take appropriate actions to prevent/reduce likelihood of errors
3. non-punitive method that seeks to identify weaknesses in systems and processes to
improve operations
✔✔CQI is comprised of what? - ✔✔Staff members of the pharmacy, including
pharmacists, registered pharmacy interns/technicians, clerical staff, and other personnel
deemed necessary by PIC or the consultant pharmacist on record
✔✔CQI has what requirements of the PIC or consultant pharmacist? - ✔✔Ensure that a
review of quality-related events occurs at least every 3 months that considers whether
the errors had environment or system-based contributing factors
✔✔CQI information should not include what: - ✔✔Due to confidentiality, no patient
names or employee names shall be included in this summarization
