Pharm Practice e7 Ch 1 Exam Questions and Answers
What degree do all US pharmacy colleges/schools currently offer?
a) a medical doctorate (MD)
b) a nursing degree
c) a terminal Masters of Science
d) a doctorate of pharmacy or PharmD - Answers-a doctorate of pharmacy or PharmD
.What organization is responsible for the accreditation of pharmacy technician training
programs?
a) any state board of pharmacy
b) None of these answers are correct
c) The American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP)
d) The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - Answers-The American Society of
Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP)
.What is the name of the Greek physician who believed that illness had a physical
explanation?
a) Hippocrates
b) Sophocles
c) Nero
d) Claudius Galen - Answers-Hippocrates
.What is galenical pharmacy?
a) A system of training pharmacy technicians in Europe
b) A method of preparing medicine by extracting active ingredients from plants
c) A technique used to sort pills
d) A type of pharmacy invented in Galena, IL. - Answers-A method of preparing
medicine by extracting active ingredients from plants
.Which of these is not a type of healthcare facility serviced by institutional pharmacies?
a) home healthcare pharmacies
b) specialty compounding pharmacies
c) All of these answers are correct.
d) long-term care facilities. - Answers-all of these answers are correct.
.Which of these is not a type of community pharmacy?
a) institutional
b) chain
c) independent
d) hospital - Answers-hospital
.What term describes a formal agreement where licensed providers make a diagnosis,
supervise patient care, and refer patients to a pharmacist?
,a) Long-Term agreement
b) HIPAA statement
c) pharmaceutical waiver
d) a Collaborative Practice Agreement - Answers-a Collaborative Practice Agreement
.In 1981, what state became the state to use an examination to test the qualifications of
a pharmacy technician?
a) Maine
b) Michigan
c) Missouri
d) Minnesota - Answers-Michigan
.What movement by the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists required education
and certification for pharmacy technicians?
a) Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative
b) Better Health Care Movement
c) Pharmacy Technician Education Initiative
d) The Federal Education Movement - Answers-Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative
.True or False
Technicians are legally allowed to counsel a patient on medications or fill a prescription
alone. - Answers-False
.In what year did the first formal hospital training programs for pharmacy technicians
begin?
a) 1963
b) 1968
c) 1951
d) 1929 - Answers-1968
.What group formed during WWII to meet needs for standards and professional support
particularly suited to hospitals?
a) The United States Pharmacy League (USPL)
b) The Food and Drug Administration
c) The North American Pharmacopeia Organization (NAPO)
d) The American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP) - Answers-The American
Society of Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP)
.What is the name of the list of standard compounding recipes for common drugs in the
United States created by physicians in 1820?
a) The International Drug List
b) The United States National Formulary
c) The FDA Orange Book
d) US Pharmacopeia - Answers-US Pharmacopeia
, .Formalized pharmacy technician training programs were first initiated during WWII by
the ____________________?
a) Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
b) Department of Defense
c) Illinois Pharmacists Association
d) University of Michigan College of Pharmacy - Answers-Department of Defense
.Which state/federal region became the first to use an examination to test the
qualifications of a technician?
a) Michigan
b) Minnesota
c)Washington, District of Columbia
d) Ohio - Answers-Michigan
.Pharmacology is defined as the study of ?
a) drugs, their uses and effects, and modes of action.
b) The extraction of active ingredients into compounding substances
c) individualizing doses of drugs based on absorption, distribution, metabolism, and
excretion from the body.
d) the medicinal functions of natural products and chemical of animal, plant, and mineral
origins. - Answers-drugs, their uses and effects, and modes of action.
.Which pharmacy organization required pharmacist apprentices to pass a formal
certification exam in order to obtain a license to practice pharmacy?
a) National Associations of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP)
b) American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHO)
c) Us Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)
d) American Pharmacy Association (APHA) - Answers-American Pharmacy Association
(APHA)
.What is a formulary and where did the concept originate?
a) scrolls of medicinal practices in China
b) drug list in Mesopotamia
c) a complication of drug compounding tools from Ancient Greece
d) a book of herbal medicines from Italy. - Answers-drug list in Mesopotamia
.Which Greek physician first suggested the illness was related to the body rather than
evil spirits or displeasing the gods?
a) Hippocrates
b) Pedanius Dioscorides
c) Emperor Nero
d) Claudius Galen - Answers-Hippocrates
.Identify the herb used to prevent infection
Echinacea
What degree do all US pharmacy colleges/schools currently offer?
a) a medical doctorate (MD)
b) a nursing degree
c) a terminal Masters of Science
d) a doctorate of pharmacy or PharmD - Answers-a doctorate of pharmacy or PharmD
.What organization is responsible for the accreditation of pharmacy technician training
programs?
a) any state board of pharmacy
b) None of these answers are correct
c) The American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP)
d) The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - Answers-The American Society of
Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP)
.What is the name of the Greek physician who believed that illness had a physical
explanation?
a) Hippocrates
b) Sophocles
c) Nero
d) Claudius Galen - Answers-Hippocrates
.What is galenical pharmacy?
a) A system of training pharmacy technicians in Europe
b) A method of preparing medicine by extracting active ingredients from plants
c) A technique used to sort pills
d) A type of pharmacy invented in Galena, IL. - Answers-A method of preparing
medicine by extracting active ingredients from plants
.Which of these is not a type of healthcare facility serviced by institutional pharmacies?
a) home healthcare pharmacies
b) specialty compounding pharmacies
c) All of these answers are correct.
d) long-term care facilities. - Answers-all of these answers are correct.
.Which of these is not a type of community pharmacy?
a) institutional
b) chain
c) independent
d) hospital - Answers-hospital
.What term describes a formal agreement where licensed providers make a diagnosis,
supervise patient care, and refer patients to a pharmacist?
,a) Long-Term agreement
b) HIPAA statement
c) pharmaceutical waiver
d) a Collaborative Practice Agreement - Answers-a Collaborative Practice Agreement
.In 1981, what state became the state to use an examination to test the qualifications of
a pharmacy technician?
a) Maine
b) Michigan
c) Missouri
d) Minnesota - Answers-Michigan
.What movement by the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists required education
and certification for pharmacy technicians?
a) Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative
b) Better Health Care Movement
c) Pharmacy Technician Education Initiative
d) The Federal Education Movement - Answers-Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative
.True or False
Technicians are legally allowed to counsel a patient on medications or fill a prescription
alone. - Answers-False
.In what year did the first formal hospital training programs for pharmacy technicians
begin?
a) 1963
b) 1968
c) 1951
d) 1929 - Answers-1968
.What group formed during WWII to meet needs for standards and professional support
particularly suited to hospitals?
a) The United States Pharmacy League (USPL)
b) The Food and Drug Administration
c) The North American Pharmacopeia Organization (NAPO)
d) The American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP) - Answers-The American
Society of Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP)
.What is the name of the list of standard compounding recipes for common drugs in the
United States created by physicians in 1820?
a) The International Drug List
b) The United States National Formulary
c) The FDA Orange Book
d) US Pharmacopeia - Answers-US Pharmacopeia
, .Formalized pharmacy technician training programs were first initiated during WWII by
the ____________________?
a) Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
b) Department of Defense
c) Illinois Pharmacists Association
d) University of Michigan College of Pharmacy - Answers-Department of Defense
.Which state/federal region became the first to use an examination to test the
qualifications of a technician?
a) Michigan
b) Minnesota
c)Washington, District of Columbia
d) Ohio - Answers-Michigan
.Pharmacology is defined as the study of ?
a) drugs, their uses and effects, and modes of action.
b) The extraction of active ingredients into compounding substances
c) individualizing doses of drugs based on absorption, distribution, metabolism, and
excretion from the body.
d) the medicinal functions of natural products and chemical of animal, plant, and mineral
origins. - Answers-drugs, their uses and effects, and modes of action.
.Which pharmacy organization required pharmacist apprentices to pass a formal
certification exam in order to obtain a license to practice pharmacy?
a) National Associations of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP)
b) American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHO)
c) Us Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)
d) American Pharmacy Association (APHA) - Answers-American Pharmacy Association
(APHA)
.What is a formulary and where did the concept originate?
a) scrolls of medicinal practices in China
b) drug list in Mesopotamia
c) a complication of drug compounding tools from Ancient Greece
d) a book of herbal medicines from Italy. - Answers-drug list in Mesopotamia
.Which Greek physician first suggested the illness was related to the body rather than
evil spirits or displeasing the gods?
a) Hippocrates
b) Pedanius Dioscorides
c) Emperor Nero
d) Claudius Galen - Answers-Hippocrates
.Identify the herb used to prevent infection
Echinacea
