NC MEDICATION AIDE (MED TECH) EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+ 2025
✔✔Medications should be given within one hour before or one hour after the prescribed
or scheduled time of administration. - ✔✔True
✔✔Residents have a right to refuse medications. - ✔✔True
✔✔Oral medications must be stored separately from topical or external medications. -
✔✔True
✔✔Staff giving medications in adult care homes have to demonstrate certain skills with
administering medications and be checked off or validated by a registered nurse or
registered pharmacist. - ✔✔True
✔✔Regulations for the accountability or recordkeeping of controlled substances differ
from the regulations for non-controlled medications. - ✔✔True
✔✔Unlicensed staff in adult care homes may administer intramuscular (IM) injections
and subcutaneous (SQ) injections. - ✔✔False
✔✔A telephone or verbal order for medications and treatments must be signed by the
person who prescribed the medications within: - ✔✔15 days from the date the order is
given.
✔✔Information or documentation on the MAR for PRN (as needed) medications that are
administered includes: - ✔✔all of the above
✔✔Mr. Jones, a resident of an adult care home, is going to visit his family for the week.
The proper way to prepare Mr. Jones' prescription medications to take with him would
be to: - ✔✔Send the medications in containers that have been filled and labeled by a
pharmacist and document the medications sent on the appropriate facility form.
✔✔The resident's physician or prescribing practitioner is to be contacted about the
resident's medication orders: - ✔✔all of the above
✔✔The facility is required to maintain or keep all medication orders for a resident: -
✔✔in the resident's record in the facility
✔✔The following statement about non-prescription (OTC) medications is FALSE -
✔✔They may be administered to a resident without a physician's order
, ✔✔Which of the following is TRUE when prepouring or preparing medications in
advance - ✔✔Oral solid medications (tablets and capsules) for routine administration
may be prepared within 24 hours of the prescribed time for administration
✔✔You have to document on MAR when a medication is - ✔✔All of the above
✔✔In order for a medication to be administered you must have - ✔✔a physician's order
✔✔"As needed" (PRN) medications must be administered according to - ✔✔The reason
and frequency of administration specified in the physician's order
✔✔When should medications be signed off on the MAR? - ✔✔After a resident has been
observed to actually take the medication
✔✔You remove a resident's medications from the packages or containers and the
resident refuses to take his 12PM medications, you should - ✔✔Dispose of the
medications in accordance with the facility's policy and procedures.
✔✔When medications are stored in a refrigerator that is accessible to residents, the
medications are to be: - ✔✔Stored in a separate locked container in the refrigerator
✔✔Three of the four statements below are requirements when residents administer
their own medications. Which one is not a requirement for self-administration? - ✔✔The
resident has to be observed to take each dose of medication
✔✔One of the best ways of identifying the correct resident is to - ✔✔Use photographs
of the residents
✔✔Checking the medication label against the MAR three times should always - ✔✔Be
done with each medication administered to each resident
✔✔All of the following are examples of medication errors EXCEPT one. Which one of
the following is NOT a medication error? - ✔✔the refusal of a medication by a resident.
✔✔If you are unable to read the physician's handwriting on a prescription or health
services record or the directions for a medication are incomplete, you should: -
✔✔Contact your supervisor, the pharmacist or the physician
✔✔When a resident has difficulty swallowing, the resident is at risk for - ✔✔Aspiration
✔✔When applying a topical medication, you should wear - ✔✔Gloves
✔✔An inhaler must be shaken - ✔✔Before each ad every time you use it
WITH SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+ 2025
✔✔Medications should be given within one hour before or one hour after the prescribed
or scheduled time of administration. - ✔✔True
✔✔Residents have a right to refuse medications. - ✔✔True
✔✔Oral medications must be stored separately from topical or external medications. -
✔✔True
✔✔Staff giving medications in adult care homes have to demonstrate certain skills with
administering medications and be checked off or validated by a registered nurse or
registered pharmacist. - ✔✔True
✔✔Regulations for the accountability or recordkeeping of controlled substances differ
from the regulations for non-controlled medications. - ✔✔True
✔✔Unlicensed staff in adult care homes may administer intramuscular (IM) injections
and subcutaneous (SQ) injections. - ✔✔False
✔✔A telephone or verbal order for medications and treatments must be signed by the
person who prescribed the medications within: - ✔✔15 days from the date the order is
given.
✔✔Information or documentation on the MAR for PRN (as needed) medications that are
administered includes: - ✔✔all of the above
✔✔Mr. Jones, a resident of an adult care home, is going to visit his family for the week.
The proper way to prepare Mr. Jones' prescription medications to take with him would
be to: - ✔✔Send the medications in containers that have been filled and labeled by a
pharmacist and document the medications sent on the appropriate facility form.
✔✔The resident's physician or prescribing practitioner is to be contacted about the
resident's medication orders: - ✔✔all of the above
✔✔The facility is required to maintain or keep all medication orders for a resident: -
✔✔in the resident's record in the facility
✔✔The following statement about non-prescription (OTC) medications is FALSE -
✔✔They may be administered to a resident without a physician's order
, ✔✔Which of the following is TRUE when prepouring or preparing medications in
advance - ✔✔Oral solid medications (tablets and capsules) for routine administration
may be prepared within 24 hours of the prescribed time for administration
✔✔You have to document on MAR when a medication is - ✔✔All of the above
✔✔In order for a medication to be administered you must have - ✔✔a physician's order
✔✔"As needed" (PRN) medications must be administered according to - ✔✔The reason
and frequency of administration specified in the physician's order
✔✔When should medications be signed off on the MAR? - ✔✔After a resident has been
observed to actually take the medication
✔✔You remove a resident's medications from the packages or containers and the
resident refuses to take his 12PM medications, you should - ✔✔Dispose of the
medications in accordance with the facility's policy and procedures.
✔✔When medications are stored in a refrigerator that is accessible to residents, the
medications are to be: - ✔✔Stored in a separate locked container in the refrigerator
✔✔Three of the four statements below are requirements when residents administer
their own medications. Which one is not a requirement for self-administration? - ✔✔The
resident has to be observed to take each dose of medication
✔✔One of the best ways of identifying the correct resident is to - ✔✔Use photographs
of the residents
✔✔Checking the medication label against the MAR three times should always - ✔✔Be
done with each medication administered to each resident
✔✔All of the following are examples of medication errors EXCEPT one. Which one of
the following is NOT a medication error? - ✔✔the refusal of a medication by a resident.
✔✔If you are unable to read the physician's handwriting on a prescription or health
services record or the directions for a medication are incomplete, you should: -
✔✔Contact your supervisor, the pharmacist or the physician
✔✔When a resident has difficulty swallowing, the resident is at risk for - ✔✔Aspiration
✔✔When applying a topical medication, you should wear - ✔✔Gloves
✔✔An inhaler must be shaken - ✔✔Before each ad every time you use it
