Medical Tests PTCE Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Medical Tests PTCE Online Questions & Answers

• Question 51:

  Adsorptionis most likely to cause a medication to:

  A. Lose potency.
  B. Become contaminated.
  C. Require refrigeration.
  D. Trigger anaphylaxis.
  A. Lose potency.

• Question 52:

  Which of the following would be a violation of OBRA?

  A. Releasing a patients records to unauthorized parties
  B. Not offering a medicaid patient counseling on a new drug prescribed
  C. Accidently allowing a refill on a DEA Sch. II drug
  D. Filling a prescription for a medicaid patient with expired stock
  B. Not offering a medicaid patient counseling on a new drug prescribed

• Question 53:

  A pharmacy can order DEA Sch. 3 drugs from their wholesaler:

  A. Using a standard invoice.
  B. Using a credit memo.
  C. Using a DEA Form 222.
  D. Only with guaranteed funds.
  A. Using a standard invoice.

• Question 54:

  Where permitted by state regulation, a pharmacy technician may be responsible for:

  A. Counseling patients on new prescriptions
  B. Completing a clinical review of new prescriptions
  C. Initiating the transfer of non-controlled substance prescriptions
  D. Approving the validity of controlled substance prescriptions
  C. Initiating the transfer of non-controlled substance prescriptions

• Question 55:

  CORRECT TEXT

  Thiazide diuretics are used to do what?

  Manage the retention of water.

• Question 56:

  CORRECT TEXT

  The last set of digits of the NDC aare indicative of what?

  package size

• Question 57:

  CORRECT TEXT

  Of the needles listed which is in order from the smallest to the largest that are used in pharmacy?

  27 gauge; 19 gauge; 18 gauge; 16gauge

• Question 58:

  CORRECT TEXT

  Which Act deals with the issue of safety caps on prescription bottles?

  The Poison Prevention Act

• Question 59:

  A pharmacy is notified that an oral solution has been recalled due to temperature excursions during transport. The first step pharmacy staff should take is to:

  A. remove any affected product from dispensing stock.
  B. contact patients who received a therapeutically equivalent product.
  C. switch patients from the oral solution to oral capsules.
  D. contact all prescribers who recently prescribed the product.
  A. remove any affected product from dispensing stock.

• Question 60:

  Which of the following medications usually end in "-pril" and are used torelax blood vessels?

  A. Beta blockers
  B. Calcium channel blockers
  C. ACE inhibitors
  D. Statins
  C. ACE inhibitors