MPJE NY REVIEW EXAMS PREP QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔additional equipment for nuclear pharmacy - ✔✔In addition to the items and articles
of equipment required by this subdivision, the pharmacy shall be equipped with at least
the following:
laminar flow hood
dose calibrator
exhaust hood and filter system
chromatography apparatus
apparatus or materials for the determination of pH
single-channel and/or multichannel scintillation detection system
and microscope.
✔✔minimum counter space - ✔✔not specified
✔✔minimum counseling area requirements - ✔✔not specified
✔✔security requirements - ✔✔walls must be floor to ceiling or at least 9'6" high
✔✔What are the advertising/signage requirements - ✔✔-display of facility registration
along w/ owner's name on exterior
-drug retail price list that gets updated at least weakly
, -language assistance signage
✔✔Within how many days must a change of pharmacy address, phone number or
name be reported to the board? - ✔✔Address: no less than 30 days before the
anticipated moving day
Phone number: not addressed in the state law
Name: as soon as possible
✔✔Within how many days must pharmacy closures be reported to the board? - ✔✔At
least 30 days prior to closing
✔✔Within how many days must have pharmacy notified the board that there has been a
change in the pharmacist-in-charge? - ✔✔Within 7 days
In New York state, the pharmacist-in-charge is often referred to as the "supervising
pharmacist"
✔✔storage of records - ✔✔-hard copy C2s separately, C3/4/5 separately, non controls
separately
✔✔storage of controlled drugs - ✔✔for community: 3-5 controls do not have to be
locked and can be dispersed throughout pharmacy
✔✔storage of non controls - ✔✔adequate heating, ventilation to safeguard drug
✔✔security for hard copy records - ✔✔must have safeguards in place
✔✔Must storage area be on site for hard copies? - ✔✔must be kept on premises,
readily available for 5 years
✔✔What requirements are there for emergency kits in long-term care facilities or other
institutional facilities (e.g., who refills the kit, in what time frame must the kit be filled)? -
✔✔Contents of an emergency kit must be approved by the facility's medical director,
pharmacist and director of nursing.
If the kit contains controlled substances, the institution must notify the pharmacy that
furnishes the medications within 24 hours of each time the emergency kit is unsealed,
opened or shows evidence of tampering.
Each such kit may contain up to a 24 hour supply of a maximum of ten different
controlled substances in unit dose packaging, three of which may be injectable drugs.
New York state law does not specifically address the time frame for refilling the kit.
✔✔when should board be notified about damages by fire, flood, etc - ✔✔48 hours
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔additional equipment for nuclear pharmacy - ✔✔In addition to the items and articles
of equipment required by this subdivision, the pharmacy shall be equipped with at least
the following:
laminar flow hood
dose calibrator
exhaust hood and filter system
chromatography apparatus
apparatus or materials for the determination of pH
single-channel and/or multichannel scintillation detection system
and microscope.
✔✔minimum counter space - ✔✔not specified
✔✔minimum counseling area requirements - ✔✔not specified
✔✔security requirements - ✔✔walls must be floor to ceiling or at least 9'6" high
✔✔What are the advertising/signage requirements - ✔✔-display of facility registration
along w/ owner's name on exterior
-drug retail price list that gets updated at least weakly
, -language assistance signage
✔✔Within how many days must a change of pharmacy address, phone number or
name be reported to the board? - ✔✔Address: no less than 30 days before the
anticipated moving day
Phone number: not addressed in the state law
Name: as soon as possible
✔✔Within how many days must pharmacy closures be reported to the board? - ✔✔At
least 30 days prior to closing
✔✔Within how many days must have pharmacy notified the board that there has been a
change in the pharmacist-in-charge? - ✔✔Within 7 days
In New York state, the pharmacist-in-charge is often referred to as the "supervising
pharmacist"
✔✔storage of records - ✔✔-hard copy C2s separately, C3/4/5 separately, non controls
separately
✔✔storage of controlled drugs - ✔✔for community: 3-5 controls do not have to be
locked and can be dispersed throughout pharmacy
✔✔storage of non controls - ✔✔adequate heating, ventilation to safeguard drug
✔✔security for hard copy records - ✔✔must have safeguards in place
✔✔Must storage area be on site for hard copies? - ✔✔must be kept on premises,
readily available for 5 years
✔✔What requirements are there for emergency kits in long-term care facilities or other
institutional facilities (e.g., who refills the kit, in what time frame must the kit be filled)? -
✔✔Contents of an emergency kit must be approved by the facility's medical director,
pharmacist and director of nursing.
If the kit contains controlled substances, the institution must notify the pharmacy that
furnishes the medications within 24 hours of each time the emergency kit is unsealed,
opened or shows evidence of tampering.
Each such kit may contain up to a 24 hour supply of a maximum of ten different
controlled substances in unit dose packaging, three of which may be injectable drugs.
New York state law does not specifically address the time frame for refilling the kit.
✔✔when should board be notified about damages by fire, flood, etc - ✔✔48 hours
