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Within this post you will find Sample Questions from the Pharmacy Tech Evaluating Exam Prep-course offered by Pharmacy Prep. For each test there are 3 sample questions actual tests consist of 150 questions per test available in class or online with our Home study program.

 

Technician Evaluating Exam

 

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1) The following is true:

A. Schedule 2 require to issue a prescription by the pharmacist.

B. Schedule 3 requires pharmacist intervention

C. Unscheduled drugs, no need for counseling

D. Injuries are schedule 1

Ans. B

Tips: Unscheduled drugs also require counseling if requested by the patient.

 

2) The following is a true statement

A. Any medication containing 8mg codeine does not require a prescription from doctor if it has 2 other non-narcotics ingredients also.

B. All medication should have DIN

C. A DIN is not required for herbal product.

D. All prescriptions should not be filed together.

Ans. (A)

Tips: One ingredient of codeine in a medication that has no other non-narcotic is considered a straight narcotic even if it contains 8mg codeine. Prescriptions of narcotics should be file separately from non-narcotics.

 

3) The straight narcotic is:

A. Tylenol 4

B. Tylenol 2

C. Tylenol 3

D. Tylenol 1

Ans. (A)

Tips: Tylenol 4 contains 60 mg codeine plus only one acetaminophen, while all the rest contain 2 non-narcotics plus a narcotic.

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Technician Biomedical Sciences

 

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1) Planes and sections of the body: separates the body into equal right and left portions is re-ferred as:

A. Sagittal plane

B. Midsagittal plane

C. Coronal plane

D. Parasagittal plane

Ans: B

Tips: Sagittal plane ->separates the body into right and left portions

Midsagittal plane (Median plane) ->separates the body/body part into equal right/left portions

Parasagittal plane-> separates the body into unequal right and left portions.

Coronal plane-> separates the body/body-part into anterior and posterior portions.

Transverse plane-> divides the body/body-part into superior and inferior portions.

Oblique plane ->passes through the body/body-part at an angle

 

 

2) The fungi that have both systemic and superficial effects on the body system is

A. Aspergillus fumigatus

B. Candida albicans

C. Cryptococcus neoformans

D. Pneumocystis gerovici

Ans.B

Tips: Candidiasis is most common opportunistic fungal infection. It may occur in mucous mem-brane and nearly any organ. It also affects skin, nails, oral cavity and vagina

 

3)-Cystic fibrosis is mainly effects?

A-Disorder of pancreatic secretion

B-Disorder lung function

C-Disorder of bones

D-Disorder of electrolyte imbalance

Ans-B

Tips: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common, fatal genetic disease affecting young Canadians. CF is a multi-organ disease affecting primarily the lungs and the digestive system. In the lungs, CF causes severe breathing problems. A build-up of thick mucus makes it difficult to clear bacte-ria and leads to cycles of infection and inflammation, which damage the delicate lung tissues. They must follow a demanding daily routine of physical therapy to keep the lungs free of con-gestion and infection. In the digestive tract, CF makes it extremely difficult to digest and absorb adequate nutrients from food.

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Technician Managing Drug Distribution

 

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1) National System for Incident Reporting (NSIR) is developed by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), this voluntary reporting system allows facilities to report medication and IV. What is incorrect about medical incident reporting?

A. A medication incident is discovered and initially reported internally in hospital committee

B. Details are reviewed internally in hospital for data quality. The incident report is finalized and submitted anonymously to NSIR

C. NSIR collects data on all types of medication incidents, including rare events and near misses.

D. NSIR takes disciplinary action for medical incidents

Ans: D

Tips: Hospital incidents can be reported after hospital committee approval to NSIR (CIHI).

Near missed incidences are that occurred however prevented from patient harm.

 

 

2) Jane Smith received the following prescription for antibiotic to treat a respiratory tract infection on January 1: Amoxicillin 500 mg TID X 10 days

After taking the drug for 3 days, Ms. Smith felt much better and stopped taking her medication.

On January 12, Ms. Smith presents to the pharmacy the following prescription for another antibiotic:

Clarithromycin 500 mg PO BID X 10 days

The medication error that has occurred would be categorized as which of the following medication errors?

A. Patient noncompliance

B. Prescribing error

C. Wrong drug dispensed

D. Deteriorated drug error

Ans. A

Tips: Patients have a responsibility in the medication use process to take their medication as instructed. Not taking the entire prescription could have led to inadequate treatment, with symptoms reappearing a short time later. The newer, most costly agent may have been prescribed because the physician was not aware that Ms. Smith stopped taking her Amoxicillin after 3 days. This may have led the physician to believe that Amoxicillin was ineffective and an alternate agent was required. It is assumed that the pharmacist counseled Ms. Smith adequately when the Amoxicillin was dispensed.

 

3) Which of the following best defines a unit-dose system?

A. All medications are kept on the nursing station in bulk quantities.

B. All medications re-packaged in a single dose that is ready to be administered to a patient.

C. A unit-dose system increases the number of errors compared with a system where bulk supplies of medications are dispensed.

D. None of the above

Ans: B

Tips: A unit-dose system prepares each dose in ready-to-use form.

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Technician Social Behavioral and Administrative Sciences

 

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1) What is true about combination drug acetaminophen 300 mg + codeine 8 mg + caffeine 15 mg

A-It is schedule 2 and can be given by pharmacist

B-Require prescription because it contain codeine

C-it is over the counter drug

D-It is straight narcotic and given by written prescription only

Ans-A

Tips: Straight narcotic (single opioid alone: morphine, codeine): written rx only. No refills. (ty-lenol 4)

Verbal narcotic or narcotic preps: 1 opioid + 2 non opioids drugs combination: tylenol 2 (aceta-minophen 300 mg+15mg codeine + 15 mg caffeine), tylenol # 3.

Exempted narcotics or OTC narcotics: (1 opioid (8 mg)+ 2 non opioid); tylenol 1 (codeine 8mg+Acetaminophen 300 mg + 15 mg caffeine), codeine 19.8 mg/30 ml+ 2 non opioid

No prescription necessary, schedule 2

 

 

2) All the following should be done by the technician, EXCEPT

a. Cash out the patient.

b. Demographics

c. Inputting the prescription.

d. Filling the prescription.

Ans. (A)

Tips: Cash out is the final step and the product must be taken by the pharmacist from the bin to be released to the patient either counseling is required or showing the medication to the pa-tient in case of refills and taking the money if not covered.

 

 

3) Dextropropoxyphen (Darvon N) was recalled voluntarily by the manufacturer due to some issues on the heart. As a technician you should do:

A. Call all the patients that took it in the past 3 months.

B. Report the side effects caused by the medication

C. A and B

D. None of the above

Ans. (D)

Tips: The technician should screen all the patients that used Darvon N in the last 3 months as the pharmacist should call them and discuss with the patients if they have had any issues with that medication so that to be reported to “Health Canada”.

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