Ohio Pharmacy Law Practice Exam| Questions
with 100% Correct Answers
T/F: Pharmacy must disclose cash price of all drugs, including C-IIs - ✔ ✔ False; not required
to do so for C-IIs
"Positive identification" methods - ✔ ✔ Signature, badge, bar code, biometrics,
personal questions
*Not a password*
Inpatient drug order requirements - ✔ ✔ 1. Patient name
2. Drug name, strength, dosage form
3. Sig
4. Date prescribed
5. Prescriber's positive identification
Consult agreements
allow pharmacists to...
(2 things, think Vanc) - ✔ ✔ 1. Manage drug therapy (dose, route, strength, frequency,
D/C therapy)
2. Order blood and urine tests
,*Update prescribers on changes*
Ohio's PDMP is called...
Records kept for ______ years. - ✔ ✔ OARRS (Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System)
2 years
The BOP may provide OARRS information to... - ✔ ✔ The patient, healthcare providers
involved in the patient's care, law enforcement
*Pharmacists may NOT provide this info directly; you can discuss the info with a prescriber,
but you cannot give them a copy*
Pharmacists may provide patient info to... - ✔ ✔ - The patient
- Healthcare professionals involved in the patient's care
- Insurance company (only the prescriptions that are billed to the company)
- Inspector or government agent
- Anyone the patient gives written consent to (valid until revoked by the patient)
- Emergency situation: anyone the pharmacist thinks is appropriate, but must prepare a
written statement justifying this
"Search warrant" for specific pharmacy information - ✔ ✔ - Must be patient-specific
and/or drug-specific for an investigation
- Request made by BOP inspector or LEO
- Receipt provided to pharmacist with date, info requested, and the requestor's name
and agency
NIOSH Hazardous Drug Classes - ✔ ✔ 1. Carcinogenic (antineoplastics)
2. Teratogenic/Reproductive toxicity
3. Organ toxicity at low doses
, Pseudoephedrine rules (storage, minimum age, max quantity, signature and record keeping)
- ✔ ✔ *Sales are NOT limited only to pharmacies*
1. Behind-the-counter or in a locked cabinet
2. 18 years (must check ID)
3. 3.6 g per day, 9 g per 30 days
4. Must sign a log book; records kept for 3 years
*These rules do NOT apply to prescriptions* (except storage)
DEA 224 - ✔ ✔ Registration form for all pharmacies dispensing CS
DEA 222 - ✔ ✔ Transfer of C-I and C-II CS
DEA 106 - ✔ ✔ Theft or "significant loss" of CS
DEA 41
(purpose, procedure, records) - ✔ ✔ - Record of disposal in case of breakage or spillage
- Fill out and send to BOP for further instruction
- Keep records for 3 years
Low-Risk CSP example
BUD: RT, Fri, Fre - ✔ ✔ One powder vial into one bag/syringe
48 hours
14 days
45 days
with 100% Correct Answers
T/F: Pharmacy must disclose cash price of all drugs, including C-IIs - ✔ ✔ False; not required
to do so for C-IIs
"Positive identification" methods - ✔ ✔ Signature, badge, bar code, biometrics,
personal questions
*Not a password*
Inpatient drug order requirements - ✔ ✔ 1. Patient name
2. Drug name, strength, dosage form
3. Sig
4. Date prescribed
5. Prescriber's positive identification
Consult agreements
allow pharmacists to...
(2 things, think Vanc) - ✔ ✔ 1. Manage drug therapy (dose, route, strength, frequency,
D/C therapy)
2. Order blood and urine tests
,*Update prescribers on changes*
Ohio's PDMP is called...
Records kept for ______ years. - ✔ ✔ OARRS (Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System)
2 years
The BOP may provide OARRS information to... - ✔ ✔ The patient, healthcare providers
involved in the patient's care, law enforcement
*Pharmacists may NOT provide this info directly; you can discuss the info with a prescriber,
but you cannot give them a copy*
Pharmacists may provide patient info to... - ✔ ✔ - The patient
- Healthcare professionals involved in the patient's care
- Insurance company (only the prescriptions that are billed to the company)
- Inspector or government agent
- Anyone the patient gives written consent to (valid until revoked by the patient)
- Emergency situation: anyone the pharmacist thinks is appropriate, but must prepare a
written statement justifying this
"Search warrant" for specific pharmacy information - ✔ ✔ - Must be patient-specific
and/or drug-specific for an investigation
- Request made by BOP inspector or LEO
- Receipt provided to pharmacist with date, info requested, and the requestor's name
and agency
NIOSH Hazardous Drug Classes - ✔ ✔ 1. Carcinogenic (antineoplastics)
2. Teratogenic/Reproductive toxicity
3. Organ toxicity at low doses
, Pseudoephedrine rules (storage, minimum age, max quantity, signature and record keeping)
- ✔ ✔ *Sales are NOT limited only to pharmacies*
1. Behind-the-counter or in a locked cabinet
2. 18 years (must check ID)
3. 3.6 g per day, 9 g per 30 days
4. Must sign a log book; records kept for 3 years
*These rules do NOT apply to prescriptions* (except storage)
DEA 224 - ✔ ✔ Registration form for all pharmacies dispensing CS
DEA 222 - ✔ ✔ Transfer of C-I and C-II CS
DEA 106 - ✔ ✔ Theft or "significant loss" of CS
DEA 41
(purpose, procedure, records) - ✔ ✔ - Record of disposal in case of breakage or spillage
- Fill out and send to BOP for further instruction
- Keep records for 3 years
Low-Risk CSP example
BUD: RT, Fri, Fre - ✔ ✔ One powder vial into one bag/syringe
48 hours
14 days
45 days
