Who may appoint the members of the Maryland State Pharmacy Board?
A. Director of Pharmacy Board
B. Governor
C. Drug inspector of the state
D. Healthcare administer of the state - ✔✔B. Governor
The Board consists of 12 members; 10 shall be licensed pharmacists, including:
Two who practice primarily in chain store pharmacies;
Two who practice primarily in independent pharmacies;
Two who practice primarily in an acute-care hospital;
,One who practices primarily in a pharmacy that provides services to a long-
term care facility;
One who practices primarily in a pharmacy that specializes in the provision
of home infusion/home care services;
Two pharmacists at-large;
Two shall be consumer members.
Which of the following statements are TRUE regarding continuing education
credits under Maryland State Pharmacy Law?
I. The pharmacist should complete 30 approved pharmaceutical continuing
education hours within a period of two years
,II. The Board may renew the license and issue a certificate of renewal for the first
renewal period following the issuance of the original license without requiring a
pharmacist to complete any continuing pharmaceutical education, if the
pharmacist obtains a license within 1 year of the completion of the pharmacist's
pharmaceutical education.
III. Each program of continuing pharmaceutical education shall consist of at least 1
continuing education unit. - ✔✔I, II, and III
The partial filling of Morphine sulfate for terminally ill patients must be
done within 72 hours from the initial filling:
A. True
B. False - ✔✔B. False
For non-terminal/non-LTC patients, schedule II drugs may be partially filled, as long
as the remaining portion is filled within 72 hours of the first partial filling. The
pharmacist must make a notation of the quantity supplied on the face of the
, written prescription (or written record of the emergency oral prescription), and
no further quantity may be supplied beyond 72 hours without a new
prescription.
For each partial filling, the dispensing pharmacist shall record on the back of the
prescription or on another appropriate record, uniformly maintained and readily
retrievable, the:(i). Date of the partial filling;(ii). Quantity dispensed;(iii).
Remaining quantity authorized to be dispensed; and(iv). Identification of the
dispensing pharmacist.(f). Before any subsequent partial filling, the
pharmacist shall determine if the additional partial filling is necessary. .
Schedule II prescriptions for patients in a LTCF or patients with a medical
diagnosis documenting a terminal illness are valid for a period not to exceed 60
days from the issue date, unless sooner terminated by the discontinuance of
medication. They may be filled in partial quantities to include individual dosage
units. Document whether the patient is "terminally ill" or "LTCF" on the
prescription; failure to do so is a violation of MD law
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