PHRM 3030: PRESCRIPTION 101 UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Pharmacist in Charge (PIC)
Answer:
- position required by law in each community setting
- person must be a licensed pharmacist
- person responsible for the conduction of business related to prescriptions within the community
pharmacy
- can only supervise one pharmacy at a time
- able to practice pharmacy in more than one location
- not required to be present in the pharmacy at all times
Question:
2. Pharmacist on Duty
Answer:
- a licensed pharmacist who is present and on duty in a community pharmacy at all times that the pharmacy
is open for business
- may not be absent for more than 3 hours daily or more than
1.5 hours at one time
- dispensing/pickup is halted when they are away
Question:
3. All ________________________________________________ must cease when the pharmacist on
duty is not present.
Answer:
prescription processing activity
Question:
4. Prescription precessing activities include
Answer:
- filing
- compounding
- dispensing
Question:
5. When a pharmacist on duty is away, prescriptions may be left by patients if they are
Answer:
dropped in a "dropbox" which can only be accessed by the licensed pharmacist
Question:
6. A pharmacist may supervise a team made up of
, Answer:
- one licensed extern (APPE)
- one licensed intern (IPPE)
- one pharmacy observer
- up to 4 technicians (one must be certified when supervising 3 technicians and 2 must be certified when
supervising 4 technicians)
Question:
7. If a pharmacist is supervising 3 technicians, how many of them MUST be certified?
Answer:
1
Question:
8. If a pharmacist is supervising 4 technicians, how many of them MUST be certified?
Answer:
2
Question:
9. All personnel in the pharmacy department (techs, cashiers, clerks, etc) except the pharmacist must
Answer:
be easily identifiable by wearing a name tag or other similar means which prominently displays their name
and job function
Question:
10. Duties that technicians are prohibited from carrying out include:
Answer:
- taking telephoned prescriptions
- transferring prescriptions to and out of the pharmacy
- performing patient counseling
- receiving or providing information about a prescription drug order
- certification of a filled drug order
- weighing or measuring active ingredients without a mechanism of verification
- compounding without a mechanism of verification
- entering a prescription order without pharmacist verification
- provision of medication information
- review of patient records for therapeutic appropriateness
Question:
11. Who examines outdated stock (outdated drugs) in a pharmacy?
Answer:
the pharmacist in charge
Question:
12. A regular review of outdated stock in a pharmacy should be performed at least every...
Answer:
6 months
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Pharmacist in Charge (PIC)
Answer:
- position required by law in each community setting
- person must be a licensed pharmacist
- person responsible for the conduction of business related to prescriptions within the community
pharmacy
- can only supervise one pharmacy at a time
- able to practice pharmacy in more than one location
- not required to be present in the pharmacy at all times
Question:
2. Pharmacist on Duty
Answer:
- a licensed pharmacist who is present and on duty in a community pharmacy at all times that the pharmacy
is open for business
- may not be absent for more than 3 hours daily or more than
1.5 hours at one time
- dispensing/pickup is halted when they are away
Question:
3. All ________________________________________________ must cease when the pharmacist on
duty is not present.
Answer:
prescription processing activity
Question:
4. Prescription precessing activities include
Answer:
- filing
- compounding
- dispensing
Question:
5. When a pharmacist on duty is away, prescriptions may be left by patients if they are
Answer:
dropped in a "dropbox" which can only be accessed by the licensed pharmacist
Question:
6. A pharmacist may supervise a team made up of
, Answer:
- one licensed extern (APPE)
- one licensed intern (IPPE)
- one pharmacy observer
- up to 4 technicians (one must be certified when supervising 3 technicians and 2 must be certified when
supervising 4 technicians)
Question:
7. If a pharmacist is supervising 3 technicians, how many of them MUST be certified?
Answer:
1
Question:
8. If a pharmacist is supervising 4 technicians, how many of them MUST be certified?
Answer:
2
Question:
9. All personnel in the pharmacy department (techs, cashiers, clerks, etc) except the pharmacist must
Answer:
be easily identifiable by wearing a name tag or other similar means which prominently displays their name
and job function
Question:
10. Duties that technicians are prohibited from carrying out include:
Answer:
- taking telephoned prescriptions
- transferring prescriptions to and out of the pharmacy
- performing patient counseling
- receiving or providing information about a prescription drug order
- certification of a filled drug order
- weighing or measuring active ingredients without a mechanism of verification
- compounding without a mechanism of verification
- entering a prescription order without pharmacist verification
- provision of medication information
- review of patient records for therapeutic appropriateness
Question:
11. Who examines outdated stock (outdated drugs) in a pharmacy?
Answer:
the pharmacist in charge
Question:
12. A regular review of outdated stock in a pharmacy should be performed at least every...
Answer:
6 months
