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General Review Questions to Prepare for State Pharmacy Law Exams

William E. Fassett, Ph.D., R.Ph.


Professor of Pharmacy Law & Ethics
Copyright © 2003, 2007, 2008 All Rights Reserved
No. Questions Your Notes
How many members serve on the Board of
1.
Pharmacy? How many are public members?

2. Which of the following can prescribe legend drugs:


O.D., Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist,
Physician’s Assistant, Midwife, Nurse Midwife,
Chiropractor, Naturopath, Clinical Psychologist,
Physical Therapist, Respiratory Therapist,
Pharmacist? May any of them purchase legend
drugs for use in their practice?

3. Which of the following can prescribe CSA drugs


(and which classes):
O.D., Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist,
Physician’s Assistant, Midwife, Nurse Midwife,
Chiropractor, Naturopath, Clinical Psychologist,
Physical Therapist, Pharmacist?

4. How long are prescriptions for legend drugs valid


from the date issued?

5. Is there a maximum number of refills allowed for


legend drugs? What is it?

6. How long are prescriptions for each of the


following valid: C-2s, C-3s, C-4s, C-5s?

7. Is there a maximum number of refills allowed for


C-5s? What is it? Are the number of refills for C-3s
and C-4s the same as federal or less?

8. Which of the following must be on the label of an


outpatient prescription:
Pt. address, Quantity, Expiration Date, Lot number,
Name of drug, RPh initials, Technician initials,
Pharmacy telephone number? Other items?

9. Can the prescribed brand name be placed on the


label when a generic is dispensed? If so, what
wording is required?

10. How does a pharmacist determine whether a


particular generic drug is suitable as a substitute
for a brand name drug?
11. Must generic savings be passed on to patients? If
so, what proportion, and how determined?

12. How can a prescriber indicate that substitution is


or is not permitted?

13. Do patients have the option of demanding the


brand name when substitution is permitted? How
about patients whose prescriptions are paid for by
public funds?

14. What documentation is required of the pharmacist


when product interchange is performed?

15. Under what conditions, if any, is therapeutic


substitution allowed?

16. What minimum sets of references, products, or


equipment are required in all community
pharmacies?

17. Do pharmacy hours have to be posted? Where?

18. Can the store be open but the pharmacy


department closed? Under what requirements?

19. Do pharmacist licenses have to be on display? The


original or official copy? Is a photocopy ok? Can
you obscure your address on the copy displayed to
the public?

20. Are there any required notices that must be


displayed to the public?

20a. Is a separate patient counseling area required?

21. Is OBRA counseling required for Medicaid only or


all patients?

22. How must the offer to counsel be made?

23. Does the offer to counsel need to be documented?


Does the refusal of the offer need to be
documented? How?

24. Is counseling required on new prescriptions, refills,


or both?

25. Can printed materials satisfy the counseling


requirement? Under what circumstances?

26. What about prescriptions that are delivered or


mailed to the patient?

27. Are there any special requirements for mail order


pharmacies?

28. Under what circumstances may a pharmacist fill


prescriptions written in another state?

29. Is there any provision for dispensing an emergency


refill supply of legend drugs when there are no
refills left and the prescriber cannot be contacted?
What is allowed/required?

30. Are patient profiles required for all patients?

31. What information is required on the profile?

32. What use of the profile is required? Review prior to


dispensing new Rx’s? Review prior to refills?

33. What is expected to be looked for during profile


review?

34. Can a patient refuse to give certain information for


the profile? If so, must the refusal be documented,
and how?

35. What are the requirements for use of computers to


process prescriptions?

36. What must be done if the computer system goes


down?

37. Is there any requirement for a daily printout of


prescriptions that were entered into the computer?
Who must sign the printout?

38. Can a pharmacist legally repackage another


pharmacy’s prescription? Under what
circumstances?

39. Can legend drug prescriptions be FAXed? Under


what circumstances and requirements?

40. Can legend drug prescriptions be transferred


electronically (ie, by computer)? Under what
circumstances and requirements?

41. Under what circumstances are FAXed CSA


prescriptions allowed?

42. Can refills of legend drugs be transferred from one


pharmacy to another? Can they be transferred
back?

43. Can an intern transfer refills?

44. Must information regarding the transfer of legend


drugs be recorded on the hard copy of the original
prescription, or can it merely be recorded in the
computer?

45. What information must be recorded by the


transferring pharmacy?

46. What information must be placed on the original


copy of the transferred prescription by the
receiving pharmacy?

47. Is it possible for pharmacies under a common


ownership to share a single patient/prescription
database? If so, what are the rules for prescription
transfers?

48. How long must the pharmacy maintain the


following records: original prescriptions, refill
records, drug purchase records, patient profiles?
Are any of these different for CSAs? If any of these
can be maintained on computer, how long do they
need to be maintained "on-line?"

49. Must every pharmacy have a pharmacist-in-charge?

50. Are there any special requirements to be


pharmacist-in-charge?

51. May a person be pharmacist-in-charge for more


than one pharmacy?

52. When must the Board of Pharmacy be notified of


any of the following? Change of pharmacist-in-
charge, change of pharmacy address, closing or
sale of a pharmacy, change of pharmacy telephone
number, change of an individual pharmacist’s
address, change of an intern’s address, change of
a technician’s address, change of a person’s name?

53. What must be on the label of a unit-dose or single-


dose package of a legend drug dispensed for a
patient in a hospital or nursing home?

54. What must be on the label of a multiple-dose


container dispensed for a patient in a hospital? In a
nursing home?

55. What is required on the label of a parenteral


solution dispensed for a patient in a hospital?

56. What is required on the label of a parenteral


solution dispensed to a patient for home infusion
therapy?

57. What is required on the label of a


radiopharmaceutical agent?

58. What are special requirements, if any, to be a


nuclear pharmacist?

59. Can transfers of refill information be faxed


between pharmacies?

60. How rapidly must a pharmacy respond to a


patient’s request to amend the information in his
or her medication record?

61. May a pharmacy transmit a patient’s prescription


claim information electronically to a third party
payor without the patient having provided written
consent to the payor or the pharmacy?

62. When must a pharmacy provide a copy of its Notice


of Privacy Practices to a patient or other person
requesting one?

63. How can changes in the NOPP be communicated to


patients?

64. Can a non-custodial parent act on behalf of a


minor to authorize disclosure of information in the
patient medication record?

65. What is the maximum amount of pseudoephedrine


that can be sold OTC to an individual in a given
day?

66. May pharmacists administer drugs? By which


route(s)?

67. What are the requirements for immunizations


administered by pharmacists?

68. To what extent are collaborative practice


agreements allowed?
69. What is the status of carisoprodol? Tramadol?

70. Under what circumstances may a pharmacist


refuse to fill a lawful prescription?

71. What is the maximum ratio of technicians to


pharmacists? Of interns to pharmacists?

72. What are the requirements for storage and


accountability for controlled substances in a
hospital?

73. What are the requirements for storage and


accountability for controlled substances in a long-
term care facility?

74. Are tech-check-tech programs allowed? Under what


circumstances?

75. What is the ratio of pharmacists to technicians?


Does it differ by setting?

76. Can techs fill IVs? Can techs fill or check drug
dispensing machines?

77. What are the requirements for remote processing


of prescriptions?

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