PTCB Pharmacy Law & Regulations
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Code of Ethics for Pharmacy Technicians - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1. First
consideration is to ensure the health and safetyof the patient and to use knowledge and skills
to the best of her/his ability in serving others.
2. Supports and promotes honesty and integrity in the profession include duty to observe law,
maintain highest moral and ethical conduct and uphold ethical principles of the profession.
3. Assists and supports the pharmacists in safe, efficacious and cost effective distribution of
health service.
4. Respects and supports the confidentiality of a patient's records and discloses pertinent info
ONLY with proper authorization.
5. Never assists in dispensing, distribution or engage in activity that will discredit the
profession.
Roles and Responsibilities of Pharm Techs - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1. Enter
prescription orders into the computer.
2. Create a profile of patient's health & insurance info in computer
3. Assist the pharmacist under direct supervision.
4. Help patients dropping off or picking up prescription orders.
Pharmacy Law - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Federal law takes precedence over state law
unless the state law is stricter than federal law.
Laws are principles and regulations established in a community by a governing body,
whether in the form of legislation or policies recognized and reenforced by judicial decisions.
Laws also provide resolution to conflicts between body
, In pharmacy, the goal is to protect the health and welfare of the patients while also protecting
the practitioners from individuals trying to defraud pharmacy to obtain medications.
The Sources of Law - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Sources of law are the core of laws comes
from the constitution and broken into 4 types.
1. Constitutional Law - drawn from Constitution Bill of Rights
2. Legislative Law - drawn from legislative branch US congress and State legislatives.
3. Administrative Law - drawn from executive branch the president and states governors and
their cabinets
4. Common Law - also known as CASE LAW, drawn from judicial branch of government the
court system.
Decisions of Law - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1. Criminal law - enforced by state
representative against person or companies. Pertain to violations of criminal statues and
codes. Punishments include monetary fines and imprisonment or death in certain cases and
separated into 2 categories.
MISDEMEANOR - lessor crimes that punishable by fines and imprisonment less than 1 year
FELONIES - punishable by larger fines and more than 1 year imprisonment
2. Civil Law - civil wrong doings are referred to as TORT where a plaintiff will bring a suit
against an alleged defendant for cause injuries even unintentional.
3. Contract Law - pertain to an agreement between 2 parties that usually binds exchange
which requires the involved parties to do or not to do a certain things.
Pure, Food and Drug Act - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Prohibit the interstate transportation
or sale of adulterated and misbranded food or drugs.
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1. FDA was created
under this law
2. Requires all new drug applications be filed with the FDA
3. Clearly defined adulteration and misbranding of drugs and food products.
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Code of Ethics for Pharmacy Technicians - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1. First
consideration is to ensure the health and safetyof the patient and to use knowledge and skills
to the best of her/his ability in serving others.
2. Supports and promotes honesty and integrity in the profession include duty to observe law,
maintain highest moral and ethical conduct and uphold ethical principles of the profession.
3. Assists and supports the pharmacists in safe, efficacious and cost effective distribution of
health service.
4. Respects and supports the confidentiality of a patient's records and discloses pertinent info
ONLY with proper authorization.
5. Never assists in dispensing, distribution or engage in activity that will discredit the
profession.
Roles and Responsibilities of Pharm Techs - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1. Enter
prescription orders into the computer.
2. Create a profile of patient's health & insurance info in computer
3. Assist the pharmacist under direct supervision.
4. Help patients dropping off or picking up prescription orders.
Pharmacy Law - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Federal law takes precedence over state law
unless the state law is stricter than federal law.
Laws are principles and regulations established in a community by a governing body,
whether in the form of legislation or policies recognized and reenforced by judicial decisions.
Laws also provide resolution to conflicts between body
, In pharmacy, the goal is to protect the health and welfare of the patients while also protecting
the practitioners from individuals trying to defraud pharmacy to obtain medications.
The Sources of Law - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Sources of law are the core of laws comes
from the constitution and broken into 4 types.
1. Constitutional Law - drawn from Constitution Bill of Rights
2. Legislative Law - drawn from legislative branch US congress and State legislatives.
3. Administrative Law - drawn from executive branch the president and states governors and
their cabinets
4. Common Law - also known as CASE LAW, drawn from judicial branch of government the
court system.
Decisions of Law - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1. Criminal law - enforced by state
representative against person or companies. Pertain to violations of criminal statues and
codes. Punishments include monetary fines and imprisonment or death in certain cases and
separated into 2 categories.
MISDEMEANOR - lessor crimes that punishable by fines and imprisonment less than 1 year
FELONIES - punishable by larger fines and more than 1 year imprisonment
2. Civil Law - civil wrong doings are referred to as TORT where a plaintiff will bring a suit
against an alleged defendant for cause injuries even unintentional.
3. Contract Law - pertain to an agreement between 2 parties that usually binds exchange
which requires the involved parties to do or not to do a certain things.
Pure, Food and Drug Act - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Prohibit the interstate transportation
or sale of adulterated and misbranded food or drugs.
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1. FDA was created
under this law
2. Requires all new drug applications be filed with the FDA
3. Clearly defined adulteration and misbranding of drugs and food products.
