Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam With Verified Solutions (All
Questions Available Here 100% Pass Guranteed) 2024-2025
Federal Food and Drug Act - Answer FDA
- Series of consumer protection laws
- led to creation of the FDA
- banned foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug
products
- Products had to be inspected and offenders where prosecuted
- Active Ingredients had to be placed on labels of packaging
- drugs can not fall below purity levels set by United states pharmacopoeia or national
Formulary
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - Answer - HIPAA
- Provides the ability to transfer and continue health insurance coverage for millions of
American workers and families when they change or lose jobs
- reduces Health care fraud and abuse
- Mandatory Industry Wide standards for health care information and electronic billing
processes
- requires the protections and confidential handling of protected health information
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act - Answer OBRA
- Allowed Workers and Families to keep their group coverage in cases of volentary or
involentary job loss
- in case of reduced hours worked
- job transitions
- give workers who lost their health benifits right to choose to continue plans under
certain circumstances
- required under businesses with 20+ employees
,- applies to both government and private sector
- set period of time, maybe influenced by circumstances
OBRA 90 - Answer - placed regulations on how to interact with patients
- record keeping mandates, prospective drug reviews
- counseling obligations
- must review medicaid participants enire drug profile before prescribing medications
Medicaid - Answer - Social Health care program for families and individuals with low
income + recources
- government insurance for people of all ages who can not afford sufficient health care
- varies by state -- state and federal jointly fund
- must be a US citizen or legal permanent resident
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Healthcare
Medicare - Correct Response - National Social Insurance Program
- operated by the US government
- health insuracne available for Americans 65+
- members must have paid into the system through their work
- Covers health insurance for those young who are disabled
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Disability - Response - Type of Insurance that protects the beneficiaries income against
the risk that disability creates an obstacle for a worker to complete the fundamental
duties of their work
- includes paid sick leave, short term disability benefits, and long term disability benifits
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Ameriplan - Response
,U.S. Social Security Act - Response - Social Welfare Legislation Act
- supplies federal aid to those who can not wotk
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Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act - Answer - enacted to curb the growing problem
of underground manufacture of illegal drugs
- regulates over the counter products that can be used to make drugs
- include daily sales limits and 30 day purchase limits
- places products out of easy reach
- sale logbooks
- customer ID verification
- training of employees and sellers
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Sale of Ephedrin - Answer - sale is limited to behind the counter
- must display photo identification
- stores must keep personal information of customer for at least a period of 2 years
- sales allowed in drive thru lanes
US Merck + co - Question - US pharmaceutical company
- one of the largest in the world
- publishes Merck Manuals -->series of reference books for medical practitioners
- Merck Index -->list of chemical compounds -->lost
Poison prevention Packaging Act - Question PPPA
requires use of child resistant packaging for prescription drugs, OTC, household
chemicals, and hazerdous materials
some drugs are exempt from child proof packaging -->OTC drugs with the proper labeling
not for children and in big enough packages
Kefauver - Harris Act - Answer - requires drug manufacturers to provide proof of their
effectivness and safety before approval
, requires drug advertisements to disclose side effects
prevented low-cost generic drugs from being packaged as higher-end medications and
taking credit as innovative drugs
CSA
Controlled Substances Act
federal US drug Policy
manufacture, importation, possession, use and distribution of certain substances is
regulated
created 5 classifications of schedules
all controlled substances need to be inventoried Biannually
Schedule I Drugs
High Potential for abuse
no potential medical use or treatment in US
- lack of accepted safety for use of drug under medical supervision
- No prescriptions may be written for drug
- Crimes involving drugs can be quite serious
Schedule II Drugs - Answer - Drugs have high potential for abuse
- Drugs have currently accepted medical uses, although there may be serious restrictions
- Abuse of drug may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence
- may not be used unless directly dispensed by a practitioner
- refills not allowed --> must write multiple prescriptions at once
- must be stored in a safe, while other schedules can be stored throughout pharmacy
Schedule III Drugs - Answer - has potential for abuse, but to a lesser degree than
schedules I + II
- drug has an accepted medical treatment
Abuse of drug may lead to moderate or low physical dependency or high psychological
dependence
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