Laws, Regulations and Controlled Substances

The technician should recognize that exempt narcotics are considered _____________________ medications. These medications have the lowest potential for abuse.

• Schedule 2

• Schedule 5

• Schedule 1

• Schedule 3

• Schedule 4

To help keep the pharmacy's records accurate and complete, the technician should file prescriptions by hand in numerical order using the prescription's __________________ . The files must be orderly and organized to allow easy retrieval to verify information.

• Patient's Last Name

• Date the pharmacy filled the prescription

• Prescription Serial Number

• Alphabetically by medication name.

The prescriber's _________________ is mandatory information that should be included on all prescriptions for controlled substances but is not a requirement on prescriptions for noncontrolled substances.

• DEA Number

• Prescribers Address and Telephone Number

• The quantity of the medication

• Date the prescriber issued the prescription

Which of the following organizations issues a pharmacy's National Provider Identifier (NPI)?

• Board Of Pharmacy (BOP)

• Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)

• The Joint Commision (TJC)

• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

A patient presents a prescription for Zolpidem (Ambien) that the doctor wrote 6 weeks ago. What should you do?

• Inform the manager that the prescription is fraudulent (fake).

• Inform the patient that he must obtain a new handwritten prescription with a current date.

• Call the prescriber to verify authorization for filling the prescription.

• Process the prescription for the pharmacy to fill.

A pharmacy technician is required to include a patient package insert when filling which of the following types of medication?

• Insulin

• Bezodiazepines

• Opiates

• Contraceptives

When verifying a prescriber's DEA number on a prescription. Which of the following parts of the DEA number should the technician multiply by two?

• The sum of the first, third and fifth digits.

• The final check digit.

• The sum of the second, fourth, and sixth digit

• The sum of the first two steps of the process.

According to HIPAA guidelines, which of the following actions should Pharmacy Technician take to safeguard a patient's protected health information (PHI)?

• Only share PHI with the patient's immediate family.

• Keep records older than 2 years in general storage outside the pharmacy.

• Shred computer printouts that include PHI

• Decline the patient's request to amend his pharmacy records.

A Pharmacy Technician should identify that fentanyl patches are included in which of the following controlled substance schedules?

• Schedule 3

• Schedule 1

• Schedule 4

• Schedule 2

Which of the following should the technician identify as the minimum amount of time prescriptions for controlled substances should be retained on file?

• 10 years

• 1 year

• 5 years

• 2 years