JURISPRUDENCE FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWER
The HPA's (Health Professions Act) purpose is to protect the public by regulating health
care professionals, ensuring that a complaint process is available to the public, and
identifying high-risk activities that must be restricted to specific personnel. - Answer-true
Nurse practitioners (NP) are authorized to prescribe controlled drugs and substances on
the triplicate list in Alberta. To be authorized to prescribe controlled drugs and
substances, Alberta NPs must complete a prescribing course recognized by CARNA
(College and Association of Registered Nurses in Alberta) and complete the CARNA
controlled drugs and substances jurisprudence module - Answer-true
at the time of completing the module NPs ARENT allowed to prescribe: a) methadone
b) buprenorphine and c) anabolic steroids other than testosterone. - Answer-true
podiatrists CANNOT prescribe methadone, buprenorphine or anabolic steroids. -
Answer-true
Midwives may prescribe, dispense and administer controlled substances under
Schedule 1 of the Pharmacy and Drug Act when incidental to the practice of midwifery
and restricted to within a hospital - Answer-true
Midwives are also on the TPP program - Answer-FALSE! they arent on the TPP
program
Clinical Pharmacist: Dispensing, compounding, and selling a schedule 1 or 2 drug -
Answer-true
Pharm techs: Compounding a schedule 1 or 2 drug or blood product - Answer-true
buprenorphine [Suboxone, naloxone] - Answer-TPP drug , an opioid!
methylphenidate [Ritalin] (except Concerta) - Answer-TPP drug. ADHD drug
butalbital preparations - Answer-TPP drug. a barbiturate
dextropropoxyphene - Answer-TPP drug. analgesic in the opioid category
fentanyl/sufentanil/alfentanil - Answer-TPP drug
hydrocodone - dihydrocodeinone - Answer-TPP drug
hydromorphone - dihydromorphinone - Answer-TPP drug
QUESTIONS AND ANSWER
The HPA's (Health Professions Act) purpose is to protect the public by regulating health
care professionals, ensuring that a complaint process is available to the public, and
identifying high-risk activities that must be restricted to specific personnel. - Answer-true
Nurse practitioners (NP) are authorized to prescribe controlled drugs and substances on
the triplicate list in Alberta. To be authorized to prescribe controlled drugs and
substances, Alberta NPs must complete a prescribing course recognized by CARNA
(College and Association of Registered Nurses in Alberta) and complete the CARNA
controlled drugs and substances jurisprudence module - Answer-true
at the time of completing the module NPs ARENT allowed to prescribe: a) methadone
b) buprenorphine and c) anabolic steroids other than testosterone. - Answer-true
podiatrists CANNOT prescribe methadone, buprenorphine or anabolic steroids. -
Answer-true
Midwives may prescribe, dispense and administer controlled substances under
Schedule 1 of the Pharmacy and Drug Act when incidental to the practice of midwifery
and restricted to within a hospital - Answer-true
Midwives are also on the TPP program - Answer-FALSE! they arent on the TPP
program
Clinical Pharmacist: Dispensing, compounding, and selling a schedule 1 or 2 drug -
Answer-true
Pharm techs: Compounding a schedule 1 or 2 drug or blood product - Answer-true
buprenorphine [Suboxone, naloxone] - Answer-TPP drug , an opioid!
methylphenidate [Ritalin] (except Concerta) - Answer-TPP drug. ADHD drug
butalbital preparations - Answer-TPP drug. a barbiturate
dextropropoxyphene - Answer-TPP drug. analgesic in the opioid category
fentanyl/sufentanil/alfentanil - Answer-TPP drug
hydrocodone - dihydrocodeinone - Answer-TPP drug
hydromorphone - dihydromorphinone - Answer-TPP drug
