Law Quizzes Flashcards by Cally Sebastian

How many hours of jurisprudence CE must a pharmacist earn each renewal cycle?

1 hour
2 hours
jurisprudence is not a requirement
4 hours

2 hours

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You are arrested and charged with a felony. When are you required to report this to the board?

Within 10 days of the arrest
Within 10 days of the conviction
Within 30 days of the arrest
Within 30 days of the conviction

Within 10 days of the arrest

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Which immunization are you NOT required to report to the primary care physician or health board within 30 days of administration?

Influenza vaccine for a 30 year old
Influenza vaccine for a 15 year old
Herpes Zoster vaccine for a 56 year old
Pneumococcal vaccine for a 66 year old

Influenza vaccine for a 30 year old

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How frequently are physician based protocols for dispensing and administration required to be renewed? (for example immunization protocols)

biennially
annually
every 3 years
there is no defined renewal peroid, they are active until revoked

biennially

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You are on your psych rotation. A patient is admitted for acute substance abuse and bipolar disorder. The patient is a pharmacist at your internship site. The patient admits during treatment to diverting and using drugs from your pharmacy over the last year. Are you required to report this to the board under duty to report laws?

Yes
No

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A fridge in your pharmacy fails on a Friday night and drugs are at above the maxumim temperature for longer than the allowable time by the manufacturer. If you were to dispense these drugs to a patient they would be considered:

Adulterated
Spoiled
Misbranded
Expired

Adulterated

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You work at a CVS location. Who must ensure the practice of pharmacy within that store is within compliance of the law?

The CEO of CVS
The district manager
The Responsible Person on the TDD license
Everyone who works in the pharmacy carries equal responsibility

The Responsible Person on the TDD license

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A physician, board certified in pain managment, wants to open an interventional pain management clinic licensed as a category III terminal distributor with 3 locations in Toledo. He will serve as the responsible person for the 3 locations and will have nursing staff on site who will see the patients on a daily basis. He spends 3 days per week at the hosptial conducting interventional pain procedures and the remaining 2 days he will travel between the 3 clinic locations. Will the board approve his application for a category III TDD?

Yes
No
Maybe, as long as the nurses employed are advanced practice nurses
Only if he also has a pharamcist physically on site to manage the controlled substance inventory

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When you experience a change in responsible person at a TDD location, what 2 things must occur?

Notify the board within 30 days of the change, inventory all drugs on site
Notify the board within 10 days of the change, inventory all controlled substances on site
Contact the board by telephone immediately when the responsible person leaves, cancel the current TDD license and apply for a new license
Conduct an inventory of all dangerous drugs on site, post a notice on the door of the business that must remain there for a minimum of 30 days

Notify the board within 10 days of the change, inventory all controlled substances on site

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Your pharamcy is robbed at gunpoint. The perpetrator takes all of your Oxycontin (4 bottles of 20mg and 2 bottles of 10mg). Which of the following steps are NOT required under the OAC?

Notify the State of Ohio Board, by phone, on the day of the theft
Notify law enforcement
Notify the DEA, by phone, on the day of the theft
File a Federal DEA Report form with the Board and with the DEA

Notify the DEA, by phone, on the day of the theft

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A patient picks up an inhaler from the outpatient pharmacy and the next day brings it back and requests a refund. She states that she never opened the box. You verify that is box is sealed. Can you accept this return?

Yes
No
Yes, but only for sealed boxes
Yes, you can accept any returns except for liquids

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May a charitable pharmacy accept controlled substance donations?

Yes, any controlled substance
No, no controlled substances
Yes, but only C V’s
Yes, but only C III-V’s

No, no controlled substances

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Choose the correct statement regading non-resident pharmacies requirement to counsel.

A non-resident pharmacy must provide a verbal offer to counsel on every prescription
If a non-resident pharmacy offers to counsel in writing, it must be on a spearate sheet of paper from all other paperwork provided to the patient
A written offer to counsel must provide an email address where the pharmacist can be reached
A phone number provided to patients can be a voicemail where patients leave a message and receive a call back within 72 hours

If a non-resident pharmacy offers to counsel in writing, it must be on a spearate sheet of paper from all other paperwork provided to the patient

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Why did the New England Compounding Center create fake prescriptions for patients such as Mary Lamb and Coco Puff?

To claim that their prescriptions were for individual patient use and not bulk manufacturing
To bill for fake insurance claims
They were not fake, Mary Lamb pulled her back out leading that darn lamb around and needed steriod injections
For the purpose of laundering money

To claim that their prescriptions were for individual patient use and not bulk manufacturing

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Select all that apply. Which are included components of the Ohio General Assembly’s first session bill, SB 1?

Universities may not conduct training or education on diversity, equity or inclusion (DEI), may not have a DEI office and may not offer scholarships based on DEI.
A ban on faculty strikes
Prohibit universities from taking a stance on anything that is considered “any belief or policy that is the subject of political controversy”. This includes things such as climate policies, politics, foreign policy, immigration, marriage, abortion, and gender affirming process or care.
It provides big raises for all faculty and staff at universities

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What is one main difference between an immunization protocol and a consult agreement?

consult agreements require renewal every 1 year while immunization protocols are good for 2 years
immunization protocols must specify a diagnosis while consult agreements don’t
consult agreements require a physician-patient relationship while immunization protocols don’t
consult agreements require each drug that can be managed to be specified in the agreement while immunization protocols dont

consult agreements require a physician-patient relationship while immunization protocols don’t

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Which profession cannot enter into a consult agreement with a pharmacist?

Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
Certified Nurse Midwife
Physician Assistant
Optometrist

Optometrist

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A pharmacist is in a consult agreement to manage diabetes. They notice on the patient’s labs an elevated TSH and low Free T4. No one has responded to this lab from 4 weeks ago.

The pharmacist adds a new diagnosis of hypothyroidism and starts the patient on a proper dose of levothyroxine. She then writes a chart note and informs the MD. Is this permitted?

Yes
No

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Which of the following meets the training and experience criteria required to manage diabetes?

Board Certification in Ambulatory Care (BCACP)
Board Certification in Pharmacotherapy (BCPS)
An institution’s own privelaging and credentialing process
All of the above

All of the above

True or False: An antimicrobial stewardship pharmacist is changing a patient from ceftriaxone to cefepime based on cultures under a consult agreement. The pharmacist must obtain consent from the patient to engage in the consult agreement prior to making the change.

False

Which pharmacy may charge a small dispensing or restocking fee?

A drug repository
A charitable pharmacy

A drug repository

Anabolic Steroids such as testosterone fall under what drug schedule?

Schedule III

This class of drugs has no recognized medical use and contains drugs such as peyote and quaaludes.
Schedule I
Schedule II
Schedule III
Schedule IV
Schedule V

Schedule I
Response Feedback: Schedule I controlled substances have no recognized medical use and include drugs like LSD, Psilocybin, Peyote, quaaludes and others

When preparations of Codeine have a concentration less than 200mg/100ml, which drug schedule does this fall into?

Schedule V

Who is exempted from reporting to OARRS? Vetrenarians MD's Podiatrists Nurse Practitioners

Vetrenarians

You are a wholesaler and you oberve unusually high quantities of ketamine being sold to an independant pharmacy that you contract with. It is about three times the quantitiy of other pharmacies within a 10 mile radius that you sell to. You call the pharmacy and they explain that there is a local prescriber in the area who prescribes a lot of this drug. What is your follow up? You can accept their explanation. No further action is required. You should call the police and report this suspicious activity You should report to the State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy You should report to the DEA

You should report to the State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy Response Feedback: Wholsalers in Ohio are required to report suspicious activity to the State Board.

Hazardous Drug Definition

Any drug listed on the NIOSH list of antineoplastic and hazardous drugs

A drug can be compounded outside of a hood as long as it is non-hazardous, is used within 1 hour of mixing and is checked by a pharmacist or prescriber

True, as long as aseptic technique is followed, unused ingredient is discarded, and unless administered immediately the drug is labeled with name, date, time prepared, and BUD

How long do you have to report a compounding quality issue to the SOhBOP?

Within 72 hours

USP for sterile

797

USP for non-sterile

795

USP for hazardous

800

How often should you conduct glove fingertip and thumb sampling for personnel completing sterile compounding?

Every 6 months

Which of the following forms must be filled out by anyone who is dispensing controlled substances?

DEA Form 224

You just received a shipment of 800 tablets of oxycodone at your pharmacy. You believe you have 112 tablets currently on the shelf. How should you properly take inventory of the oxycodone?

Physically count the medication

True or false: This is a valid DEA number for Frank Furter, MD: BZ1574536

False

A prescription for a Schedule III-IV controlled substance can be refilled up to:

5 times in 6 months

When dispensing a prescription for a patient that is an animal...what are the 3 components of the animal patient's name for the prescription record

Name of animal Last name of owner Species of the animal

The activities of a remote pharmacist who does remote prescription processing may include all of the following EXCEPT: Drug utilization review (prospective) Order entry Dispensing Drug information services

Dispensing

A pharmacy's electronic prescription system requires the use of a magnetic card reader as a means of identification of their employees This means authorized pharmacy personnel are NOT required to use a private personal identifer (i.e. password) to enter the electronic prescription system. True or False

False

Which of the following are TRUE? The phone number of the national toll-free Poison Help Line is 1-800-222-1222 For a patient who is NOT terminally ill or residing in a long-term care facility, the remaining portions of a partially dispensed schedule II controlled substance prescription shall be filled not later than thirty days after the date on which the prescription is written. A multiple-dose vial that exceeds its beyond-use date shall be deemed misbranded

The phone number of the national toll-free Poison Help Line is 1-800-222-1222 For a patient who is NOT terminally ill or residing in a long-term care facility, the remaining portions of a partially dispensed schedule II controlled substance prescription shall be filled not later than thirty days after the date on which the prescription is written.

If a pharmacy is appropriately storing non-controlled hard copy prescriptions (and faxes) electronically, they may file the hard copy electronically and then destroy the hard copy of the orignal prescripton after how many days?

180 days

What is the BUD of a punctured multidose vial (unless otherwise specified by the manufacturer)?

28 days

You are a pharmacist working in a hospital pharmacy. You are the only pharmacist on duty along with 2 technicians. You have to go to the restroom. Choose the correct statement. This is a trick question because the law only states that a pharmacist can leave to engage in the practice of pharmacy and does not allow for any other reason, yet we know that this circumstance occurs and the board allows it This is a trick question. Pharmacists are robots and have no need to use the restroom. You have to hold it until the end of your shift which is 12 hours from now You have to ask the technicians to leave the pharmacy while you are away

This is a trick question because the law only states that a pharmacist can leave to engage in the practice of pharmacy and does not allow for any other reason, yet we know that this circumstance occurs and the board allows it

Choose the correct statement about how CII controlled substances need to be stored in an institutional facility. They may be stored with CIII through CV medications, but cannot be stored with the general stock of medications They must be stored separately from all other medications Because the institutional pharmacy is constantly behind locked doors, CII's can be stored with regular stock Institutions don't use CII's

They may be stored with CIII through CV medications, but cannot be stored with the general stock of medications

Choose the INCORRECT statement about refrigerators and freezers in institutional pharmacies A daily temperature log is an acceptable method to determine temperature integrity An electronic temperature monitoring system is an acceptable method to determine temperature integrity Refrigerators and freezers storing medications must be locked with a combination lock You can store employee food and beverage in the same fridge as medications, as long as they are kept on different shelves

You can store employee food and beverage in the same fridge as medications, as long as they are kept on different shelves

You are a pharmacist in a hospital pharmacy but you have only been working there for a week. You recieve an order for an order for a very, very high dose of a narcotic pain medication for a patient who is classified as DNR CC. You ask your partner pharamcists and she says "That's just how Dr. Doe orders it. He's been doing this for years. If you call to question him he will yell at you and threaten to get you written up. Its not worth the hassle" What should you do? Enter the order. You are brand new - who are you to question this longtime process? Ask your partner to enter the order for you Contact your supervisor to seek advice Call the medical board on the physician to report him

Contact your supervisor to seek advice