Pharmacy Practice Final Exam

For every 250 prescriptions dispensed in a community pharmacy, how many contain a mediation error of some type? - Answer- 4 Which of the following scenarios is not a patient-caused medication error? - Answer- The patient did not receive a sufficient quantity of antibiotic suspension from the pharmacy. A wrong dose error occurs when a dose is either above or below the correct amount by more than _____ - Answer- 5% A hospital pharmacy preparing hazardous drugs in a horizontal laminar airflow hood is an example of a(n) - Answer- organization error. Filling a prescription with generic buproprion SR when the drug requested was bupropion XL is an example of which type of error? - Answer- selection error When receiving a new prescription, which of the following should a pharmacist or technician avoid doing? - Answer- Use a trailing zero when the dose written is for a whole number (e.g. 10.0 mg) Which of the following sources of information is useful to verify that the correct medication has been selected from the shelf to fill the prescription order? - Answer- all of the above The most important factor in medication error reporting is to - Answer- notify the patient At a minimum, patients and caregivers should understand 10 key pieces of information about their prescriptions. Which of the following pieces of information is not included in those 10 items? - Answer- best time to pick up the prescription from the pharmacy A sentinel even is defined by the Joint Commission as - Answer- an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the potential for the occurrence to happen. Which of the following is an unapproved abbreviation for mL? - Answer- cc Identify the incorrect statement. All prescription or medication orders - Answer- written as a decimal less than 1 should have a trailing zero. The recommended abbreviation for the dose of the medication Lantus is - Answer- units. To verify that the correct patient is receiving the prescription at pickup, the technician sho