NEVADA MPJE 2026 PRACTICE QUESTION SET
TWO
◉ How often must practitioners or other people who dispense
controlled substances obtain registration from the DEA? Answer:
every 2 years
◉ True or false: an agent or employee of a registered dispenser is
not required to register with the DEA. Answer: True, so long as they
are acting in the usual course of their business/employment.
◉ True or false: a common or contract carrier or warehouseman
does not need registration with the DEA. Answer: True.
◉ Which of the following activities requires separate registration
with the DEA? (1) manufacturing. (2) distributing. (3) dispensing,
prescribing, conducting research. (4) conducting chemical analysis.
Answer: they all do. A separate registration for each of these
activities is required.
◉ True or false: a person who engages in more than one group of
independent activities must obtain a separate registration for each
group of activities. Answer: TRUE.
,◉ True or false: a separate registration is required for each place of
business or professional practice where controlled substances are
manufactured, distributed, used in research or scientific
investigation, prescribed or dispensed. Answer: TRUE
◉ True or false: a warehouse that stores controlled substances
requires a separate registration. Answer: FALSE.
◉ True or false: a practitioner's office where controlled substances
are prescribed but not stored or dispensed still requires a separate
registration. Answer: FALSE. If they are only prescribed, and not
stored/dispensed/administered, the location does not require
registration.
◉ True or false: a practitioner's office where controlled substances
are stored does not require a separate registration. Answer: FALSE -
if controlled substances are being stored, they require separate
registration.
◉ What items are required on the certificate of registration?
Answer: (1) name of registrant. (2) address of registrant. (3)
registration number (DEA#) of registrant). (4) activity authorized (is
it dispensing, research, etc). (5) the schedules of the controlled
substances which the registrant is authorized to handle.
,◉ For a practitioner who dispenses controlled substances for use by
his patients outside of his presence, what record-keeping is
required? Answer: (1) name of the patient. (2) address, unless
readily available (then indicated). (3) date of dispensing. (4) name of
the prescribing practitioner and classification of license. (5) DEA #.
(6) initials of the dispensing practitioner if the dispensing is
different from the prescribing. (7) directions for use. (8) signature of
the prescribing practitioner.
◉ True or false: a practitioner may dispense controlled drugs to a
patient only after he has issues a written RX that allows the patient
to have it filled at another location of the patient's choosing. Answer:
TRUE
◉ True or false: an individual practitioner may dispense a controlled
substance (2-4) for his own personal use. Answer: FALSE - they may
not. Exception: medical emergency.
◉ Can pharmacists use oral authorization to dispense CII
medications? Answer: YES, but only in emergency situations. The
quantity prescribed/dispensed must be limited to the amount
adequate to treat the patient during the emergency period. Any
quantity beyond this requires a written prescription.
◉ What are the requirements for dispending a CII in an emergency
situation? Answer: Reduce the oral authorization to writing
immediately. RX must contain all information required of controlled
, medications, except the signature of the prescriber. Write on the face
of the RX "authorization for emergency dispensing" and date or oral
order. Make reasonable effort to confirm validity of registered
practitioner if they are personally unknown to the pharmacist. A
written prescription must be received, either by person or by mail,
within 72 hours (if by mail, then post-marked by 72 hours). Attach
this written rx to the oral authorization. If the written RX is not
received, the pharmacist must notify the board of the prescribers'
failure to deliver.
◉ True or false: an individual practitioner may issue a prescription
order in order to obtain controlled substances for the purpose of
general dispensing to patients. Answer: FALSE - they should be
filling out an order form - prescribers cannot write an RX to a
pharmacy with "for office use," for example.
◉ Can a prescription for a narcotic be given to a patient who is
dependent with the sole purpose of extending their dependence on
the medication? Answer: ONLY if they are in an authorized
investigation in the development of a program for rehabilitating
narcotic addicts.
◉ True or false: the prescribing of narcotic's to a person dependent
on a narcotic for the purpose of continuining his dependence is
persmissible as long as that patient is in a authorized clinical
investigation in the development of a program for rehabilitating
narcotic addicts. Answer: FALSE - narcotics may be administered or
TWO
◉ How often must practitioners or other people who dispense
controlled substances obtain registration from the DEA? Answer:
every 2 years
◉ True or false: an agent or employee of a registered dispenser is
not required to register with the DEA. Answer: True, so long as they
are acting in the usual course of their business/employment.
◉ True or false: a common or contract carrier or warehouseman
does not need registration with the DEA. Answer: True.
◉ Which of the following activities requires separate registration
with the DEA? (1) manufacturing. (2) distributing. (3) dispensing,
prescribing, conducting research. (4) conducting chemical analysis.
Answer: they all do. A separate registration for each of these
activities is required.
◉ True or false: a person who engages in more than one group of
independent activities must obtain a separate registration for each
group of activities. Answer: TRUE.
,◉ True or false: a separate registration is required for each place of
business or professional practice where controlled substances are
manufactured, distributed, used in research or scientific
investigation, prescribed or dispensed. Answer: TRUE
◉ True or false: a warehouse that stores controlled substances
requires a separate registration. Answer: FALSE.
◉ True or false: a practitioner's office where controlled substances
are prescribed but not stored or dispensed still requires a separate
registration. Answer: FALSE. If they are only prescribed, and not
stored/dispensed/administered, the location does not require
registration.
◉ True or false: a practitioner's office where controlled substances
are stored does not require a separate registration. Answer: FALSE -
if controlled substances are being stored, they require separate
registration.
◉ What items are required on the certificate of registration?
Answer: (1) name of registrant. (2) address of registrant. (3)
registration number (DEA#) of registrant). (4) activity authorized (is
it dispensing, research, etc). (5) the schedules of the controlled
substances which the registrant is authorized to handle.
,◉ For a practitioner who dispenses controlled substances for use by
his patients outside of his presence, what record-keeping is
required? Answer: (1) name of the patient. (2) address, unless
readily available (then indicated). (3) date of dispensing. (4) name of
the prescribing practitioner and classification of license. (5) DEA #.
(6) initials of the dispensing practitioner if the dispensing is
different from the prescribing. (7) directions for use. (8) signature of
the prescribing practitioner.
◉ True or false: a practitioner may dispense controlled drugs to a
patient only after he has issues a written RX that allows the patient
to have it filled at another location of the patient's choosing. Answer:
TRUE
◉ True or false: an individual practitioner may dispense a controlled
substance (2-4) for his own personal use. Answer: FALSE - they may
not. Exception: medical emergency.
◉ Can pharmacists use oral authorization to dispense CII
medications? Answer: YES, but only in emergency situations. The
quantity prescribed/dispensed must be limited to the amount
adequate to treat the patient during the emergency period. Any
quantity beyond this requires a written prescription.
◉ What are the requirements for dispending a CII in an emergency
situation? Answer: Reduce the oral authorization to writing
immediately. RX must contain all information required of controlled
, medications, except the signature of the prescriber. Write on the face
of the RX "authorization for emergency dispensing" and date or oral
order. Make reasonable effort to confirm validity of registered
practitioner if they are personally unknown to the pharmacist. A
written prescription must be received, either by person or by mail,
within 72 hours (if by mail, then post-marked by 72 hours). Attach
this written rx to the oral authorization. If the written RX is not
received, the pharmacist must notify the board of the prescribers'
failure to deliver.
◉ True or false: an individual practitioner may issue a prescription
order in order to obtain controlled substances for the purpose of
general dispensing to patients. Answer: FALSE - they should be
filling out an order form - prescribers cannot write an RX to a
pharmacy with "for office use," for example.
◉ Can a prescription for a narcotic be given to a patient who is
dependent with the sole purpose of extending their dependence on
the medication? Answer: ONLY if they are in an authorized
investigation in the development of a program for rehabilitating
narcotic addicts.
◉ True or false: the prescribing of narcotic's to a person dependent
on a narcotic for the purpose of continuining his dependence is
persmissible as long as that patient is in a authorized clinical
investigation in the development of a program for rehabilitating
narcotic addicts. Answer: FALSE - narcotics may be administered or
