CPJE LAW LATEST 2026 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Other duties of Pharmacy Clerk - ✔✔Can answer phone calls or type labels for
prescriptions
✔✔What schedule is HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin)? - ✔✔Schedule III
✔✔If a pharmacy license is voided
or
where a pharmacy owner notifies state board the intent to remain closed - ✔✔The
pharmacy has 10 days to arrange for all drugs to be transferred to another licensee
(pharmacy or wholesaler)
✔✔If a pharmaceutical manufacturer does not place an expiration date on its
prescription drug product: - ✔✔Assume it to be expired - do not distribute or dispense
✔✔Faxing a controlled prescription (schedule III, IV, or V) - ✔✔Technically cannot be
faxed because the law requires it to be on a non-faxed special security prescription
form.
But if you treat it as a telephonic order, and transcribe the the prescription (reduce it to
writing) on a blank prescription pad, then you can honor it.
This is assuming all necessary information is included in the fax (doctor, signature, date,
dea#, etc.)
✔✔Prescribers using internet to send prescriptions to pharmacists - ✔✔Yes (non-
controlled, schedue 3-5)
Prescription must be pursuant to a good faith exam
-existence of prescriber-pt relationship
-medical records kept by prescriber
-physical exam or at least a line of questioning by prescriber to ascertain nature of
medical problem
✔✔Online pharmacy - ✔✔Must obtain a DEA registration allowing one to be identified
as an online pharmacy
✔✔DEA Form 222s - ✔✔Copy 1 and 2 are sent to supplier intact
Supplier retains copy 1 and sends copy2 to regional DEA office
Pharmacy maintains copy3, and when supplies come to pharmacy, the pharmacy will
record on copy3 how many boxes/bulk containers they received
, Copy 3 should be kept available for inspection by the pharmacy for 2 years
✔✔The receiving pharmacy of a transfer shall identify the prescription as a transfer and
record the date of transfer, original prescription number. Also: - ✔✔Maintain the
following information:
identification of transferring pharmacist
name/id code/address from transferring pharmacy
original date and last dispensing date
number of refills and date originally authorized
number of refills remaining but not dispensed
number of refills transferred
✔✔Patient medication profile - ✔✔Does not necessarily have to be created if pharmacy
deems the patient to never come back again (reasonably) and have no refills.
up to pharmacist
✔✔California controlled prescription security form - ✔✔Some forms are formatted in a
way to allow multiple drugs/prescriptions on one pad
However, the prescription is completely void if: "This Prescription is void if the number of
drugs prescribed is not noted"
This statement will be printed on the bottom of the security form
✔✔Prescriber writing many prescriptions on one blank - ✔✔It's a good measure for
them to indicate how many total prescriptions will be on the blank (but pharmacists
doesn't necessarily have to call them if there is good reason to believe that all the
prescriptions are legitimate)
✔✔Compounding pharmacies advertising - ✔✔Can advertise that they are a
compounding pharmacy
AND
Can advertise that they can compound and specific specialized product
✔✔Terminally Ill or Hospice Patient: Schedule II - ✔✔Schedule II meds can be partially
filled within 60 days of the written date of the prescription
No portion of the prescription can be dispensed after that 60 days
✔✔Clinic pharmacy - ✔✔cannot dispense schedule II medications
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Other duties of Pharmacy Clerk - ✔✔Can answer phone calls or type labels for
prescriptions
✔✔What schedule is HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin)? - ✔✔Schedule III
✔✔If a pharmacy license is voided
or
where a pharmacy owner notifies state board the intent to remain closed - ✔✔The
pharmacy has 10 days to arrange for all drugs to be transferred to another licensee
(pharmacy or wholesaler)
✔✔If a pharmaceutical manufacturer does not place an expiration date on its
prescription drug product: - ✔✔Assume it to be expired - do not distribute or dispense
✔✔Faxing a controlled prescription (schedule III, IV, or V) - ✔✔Technically cannot be
faxed because the law requires it to be on a non-faxed special security prescription
form.
But if you treat it as a telephonic order, and transcribe the the prescription (reduce it to
writing) on a blank prescription pad, then you can honor it.
This is assuming all necessary information is included in the fax (doctor, signature, date,
dea#, etc.)
✔✔Prescribers using internet to send prescriptions to pharmacists - ✔✔Yes (non-
controlled, schedue 3-5)
Prescription must be pursuant to a good faith exam
-existence of prescriber-pt relationship
-medical records kept by prescriber
-physical exam or at least a line of questioning by prescriber to ascertain nature of
medical problem
✔✔Online pharmacy - ✔✔Must obtain a DEA registration allowing one to be identified
as an online pharmacy
✔✔DEA Form 222s - ✔✔Copy 1 and 2 are sent to supplier intact
Supplier retains copy 1 and sends copy2 to regional DEA office
Pharmacy maintains copy3, and when supplies come to pharmacy, the pharmacy will
record on copy3 how many boxes/bulk containers they received
, Copy 3 should be kept available for inspection by the pharmacy for 2 years
✔✔The receiving pharmacy of a transfer shall identify the prescription as a transfer and
record the date of transfer, original prescription number. Also: - ✔✔Maintain the
following information:
identification of transferring pharmacist
name/id code/address from transferring pharmacy
original date and last dispensing date
number of refills and date originally authorized
number of refills remaining but not dispensed
number of refills transferred
✔✔Patient medication profile - ✔✔Does not necessarily have to be created if pharmacy
deems the patient to never come back again (reasonably) and have no refills.
up to pharmacist
✔✔California controlled prescription security form - ✔✔Some forms are formatted in a
way to allow multiple drugs/prescriptions on one pad
However, the prescription is completely void if: "This Prescription is void if the number of
drugs prescribed is not noted"
This statement will be printed on the bottom of the security form
✔✔Prescriber writing many prescriptions on one blank - ✔✔It's a good measure for
them to indicate how many total prescriptions will be on the blank (but pharmacists
doesn't necessarily have to call them if there is good reason to believe that all the
prescriptions are legitimate)
✔✔Compounding pharmacies advertising - ✔✔Can advertise that they are a
compounding pharmacy
AND
Can advertise that they can compound and specific specialized product
✔✔Terminally Ill or Hospice Patient: Schedule II - ✔✔Schedule II meds can be partially
filled within 60 days of the written date of the prescription
No portion of the prescription can be dispensed after that 60 days
✔✔Clinic pharmacy - ✔✔cannot dispense schedule II medications
