FLORIDA MPJE 2026.pdf 1. Document information

FLORIDA MPJE 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
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✔✔Who makes up the Florida Board of Pharmacy? - ✔✔9 members appointed by the
Governor
7 must be pharmacists who have practiced in last 4 years
1 must be community RPH, 1 must be Institutional
1 of the 7 must be older than 60 years
2 must be non pharmacy related - state residents

Serve 4 year terms
May discipline pharmacists who deviate from law/rule with fines, suspensions,
revocation, etc

✔✔Florida Prescription Drug Monitoring Program of CS - ✔✔To minimize diversion of
CS
must report within 15 days of dispensing
MD name, DEA, date rx written, Pharmacy name, address, DEA, date filled and method
of payment.
Full name, address, dob of patient, name, NDC, qty and strength of CS.

✔✔Florida Law - Specific to Florida - differs from Federal Law
Controlled Substances - ✔✔Amount of CV available without prescription is lower if FL
Salvia is Schedule I
CII Rx expires 1 year from date of original Rx

Verbal and printed offer to counsel must be made for all outpatient Rx, new and refill if
not delivered directly to patient must offer in writing with a toll free number.

✔✔Florida Law - Specific to Florida - differs from Federal Law
Controlled Substances - ✔✔CII emergency Rx - verbal limited to 72 hour supply

written format on CS prescriptions date Jan 1, 2011 and
qty must be in numbers and letters: 30 (thirty)

Legible prescription law - date July 1, 2003

Each Rx blank must have only drugs from same class on it

✔✔Florida Law - Specific to Florida - differs from Federal Law
Controlled Substances - ✔✔Oral prescriptions for CIII are limited to 30 day supply
including refills

Pharmacist must write his/her initials and the date filled on the face of all CS
prescriptions

,✔✔Tamper Resistant Pad Requirements - ✔✔Required for CII, III and IV
must contain preprinted prescriber name, address and category for licensure
Security features: background is green or blue, resists reproduction, blank printed with
watermark paper, blank resists erasures and alterations, the word void or illegal to
appear on photocopy or reproductions.

✔✔Who may prescribe CS in Florida? - ✔✔Dentists, MD, DO, Podiatrists, Veterinarians

✔✔Who may not prescribe CS in Florida? - ✔✔Midlevel practitioners are not authorized.
** Note out of state mid level may write a valid Rx in FL if necessary for continuation of
treatment of chronic or recurrent illness.

✔✔Recordkeeping Requirements in Florida: Rx Records - ✔✔2 years

✔✔Recordkeeping Requirements in Florida: CS inventory - ✔✔2 years - conduct every
2 years

✔✔Recordkeeping Requirements in Florida: inventory records - ✔✔2 years

✔✔Recordkeeping Requirements in Florida: Pharmacy Permits - ✔✔Expire every odd
year on Feb 28th

✔✔Recordkeeping Requirements in Florida: Immunization Records - ✔✔5 years

✔✔Recordkeeping Requirements in Florida: Patient records for RPH only drug orders -
✔✔2 years

✔✔Recordkeeping Requirements in Florida: Patient records for prescription drugs
dispensed - ✔✔2 years from date of last entry

✔✔Recordkeeping Requirements in Florida: Pharmacist CQI summaries - ✔✔2 years

✔✔Recordkeeping Requirements in Florida: Dispensing log book - ✔✔2 years

✔✔Recordkeeping Requirements in Florida: Starter dose Rx records - ✔✔2 years

✔✔Recordkeeping Requirements in Florida: Class II Institutional records/reports -
records from automated fill, reports of access to system, processing info for med orders
- ✔✔2 years

✔✔Recordkeeping Requirements in Florida: Automated system transactions for LTC,
Hospice, and Prisons - ✔✔2 years

, ✔✔Recordkeeping Requirements in Florida: Drug samples records of distribution,
destruction or return - ✔✔3 years

✔✔Recordkeeping Requirements in Florida: Wholesale records - ✔✔2-3 years
The longer of 2 years following disposition of drug or 3 years from the creation of the
record

✔✔Recordkeeping Requirements in Florida: prescription drug distributions - ✔✔4 years

✔✔Recordkeeping Requirements in Florida: Records and sales of ether by
manufacturers, distributors and dealers - ✔✔5 years

✔✔Drugs which may be ordered by Pharmacist in Florida:
Oral Analgesics - ✔✔For mild to moderate pain. No history of PUD. 6 day supply. With
food or milk.
Mag salicylate
acetylsalicylic acid
naproxen sodium
naproxen
ibuprofen

✔✔Drugs which may be ordered by Pharmacist in Florida:
Urinary Analgesics - ✔✔phenazopyridine - 2 day supply
discolors urine - take after meals

✔✔Drugs which may be ordered by Pharmacist in Florida:
Otic Analgesics - ✔✔As long as there isn't any tympanic membrane perforation
label for use in the ear only
Antipyrine
benzocaine
glycerine

✔✔Drugs which may be ordered by Pharmacist in Florida:
Anti-nausea preparations - ✔✔may cause drowsiness
meclizine up to 25mg as long as no CNS depressants are being used.
Caution for use with alcohol or other depressants
scopolamine up to 1.5mg per patch
Warn patient to seek help if eye pain, redness or decreased vision develops

✔✔Drugs which may be ordered by Pharmacist in Florida:
Antihistamines - ✔✔must be older than 6 years and not used in patients with bronchial
asthma, lower respiratory symptoms, glaucoma, cardiovascular disorders, HTN,
prostate conditions and urinary retention.