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,PTCB Study Questions
1. Where should one place used syringes and needles?
Answer: Red plastic sharpscontainer
2. Where should one place used gloves, gowns, and masks?
Answer: Biohazard bag
3. Can you wear jewelry while preparing IV admixtures?
Answer: Jewelry should not beworn while preparing IV admixtures because it may puncture
the latex gloves.
4. What should be used to clean the laminar flow hood?
Answer: 70% isopropyl alcohol
5. How often must laminar flow hoods be certified?
Answer: Every 6 months
6. How long should the blower be on for a laminar hood?
Answer: 30 minutes
7. Which reference book provides information on drug prices and how oftenis it updated?
Answer: Drug Topics Red Book. Updated yearly.
8. Which reference book provides information about therapeutic equivalence?
Answer: Drug Topics Orange Book, which is known as "Approved Drug Productswith
Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluation.s"
9. Which reference book provides information with regard to brand and generic names, drug
identification, and dosage calculations? How often is it updated?
Answer: Drug Facts and Comparisons Book. Updated monthly.
10. Which reference book is a compendium of monographs setting officialnational standards
for drug substances, dosage forms, and standards forpharmaceutical ingredients?
Answer: USP-NF
11. How many times may a pharmacy transfer a controlled substance prescription of 30 tablets
of Tylenol #3 with five refills indicated on the prescription?-
Answer: Only once.
The patient must have the remaining refills processed at the pharmacy to which theprescription
was transferred.
12. How often must HEPA filters be certified?
Answer: 6 months (unless they becomewet)
, 13. What are bevel, hilt, lumen, and shaft?
Answer: The lumen is the opening of a needle.The bevel is the angled tip of the needle where
the lumen is found.
The hilt of the needle attaches to the hub of the barrel of the syringe.The shaft is the length of
the needle.
14. Which regulatory agency may issue drug recall?
Answer: FDA (Food and DrugAdministration)
15. How many classifications of drug recall?
Answer: 3 classes: I, II, III assigned by FDAbased on the decreasing of the probability that the
use of the product will cause adverse health.
16. What type of drug recall is associated with irreversible damage or deathto an individual
Answer: Class I
17. What must be done if a patient requests an easy-open container?
Answer: Havethe patient sign the back of the prescription, indicating that he has requeste an
easy-open container.
18. What information is needed on a patient's prescription?
Answer: Patient's name,name of the medication, and directions for use.
Patient's ID number is not needed, but it's needed if medications orders filled inhospital.
19. Which form is required to be completed in the destruction of noncontrolledsubstances?
Answer: No form is required
20. Which federal agency is responsible for hazardous waste and materials?-
Answer: OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
21. Which type of mortar and pestle is used to mix liquids?
Answer: Glass
22. what type of spatula should be used in measuring corrosive ingredients?-
Answer: Rubber
23. What is used to measure volumes less than 1.5 mL?
Answer: Pipette
24. Who is responsible for pharmaceuticals in transit if they are designated as"FOB
destination"?
Answer: Seller
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