PEBC (Ethics and Pharmacy Regulations) Sample Questions Set 11
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Question. Pharmacist morals prohibit him from giving oral contraceptives to teenagers. What will you do?
a. Tell her that it is not available
b. Do not give her so that she will not break her moral and principles
c. Give her and put patients need above her personal beliefs and morals
d. Send her to another pharmacy
e. Refuse prescription
Answer: (d)
Question. National Association of Pharmaceutical authority (NAPRA) schedules 2 drugs, what is right?
A. Medication should be counselled
B. Warts medication are in this schedule
C. Both a and b
D. Require prescription
E. None of the above
Answer: (a)
Question. A patient coming to your pharmacy with Rx. You have a busy pharmacy and you need to call the doctor regarding his Rx. The patient got angry because he was waiting so long in your pharmacy.
What is the appropriate act?
a. Let him went all his anger
b. Listening skills
c. Respect him acknowledge of his frustration
d. Ignore his anger
e. Force out him from pharmacy
Answer: (c)
Question. All of the following are mandates of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic committee, except?
A) Selecting the drug, negotiating terms of purchase from vendor or logistics agent, and then purchasing.
B) Receiving medications and storing a product on site hospitals.
C) Hospital pharmacy and pharmacy therapeutic committee determines the specific medication that will maintained in closed formulary or inventory
D) Review of safe medication practices in determining the formulary status of medications.
E) Assess patient therapeutic effect and adverse reactions.
Answer: (e)
Question. A father of a teenage girl phones the pharmacy and asks him whether his daughter is taking birth control pills or not? What are the contradicting ethics pressing the pharmacist?
a) Nonmaleficence and confidentiality
b) Beneficence and confidentiality
c) Autonomy and confidentiality
d) Veracity and confidentiality
e) Justice and confidentiality
Answer: (d)
Question. A 12-year-old son, NOT covered by an insurance plan, wants to buy medication on mother 's insurance plan.
A) Call mother and get OK
B) Fill the prescription
C) It is unethical to fill Rx
D) It is illegal to fill Rx
E) Just dispense but do not mention to insurance company
Answer: (d)
Question. A 30 yr old male got written Rx for Morphine liquid, comes to pharmacy long before his part time fill time, what is appropriate action.
A) Verify with prescriber
B) Refuse to dispense
C) Dispense and encourage to comply in the future
D) Dispense acetaminophen PRN
E) Refer to emergency
Answer: (a)
Question. A mother comes into your pharmacy and tells you that the insurance company has lost all of her daughter’s receipts. Her daughter’s profile shows that she had two antibiotics 3 weeks ago, and a refill for OCP last week. What is the appropriate action?
A. Give receipts for free
B. Give receipts for a nominal fee
C. Before doing anything obtain permission from her daughter
D. Refuse to give receipts
Answer: (c)
Question. You are a male pharmacist and you need to counsel a woman patient to an initial treatment of a vaginal cream. The patient is having an issue receiving counseling because her culture does not permit her to talk to other men than her husband about intimacy problems. What would be the best way to manage this situation?
a) Leave the patient goes home without counseling
b) Ask permission to her husband and bring her to the counseling area alone
c) Ask her husband to participate of the counseling together with his wife and you
d) Ask a woman pharmacy assistant to be present during the counseling
e) Ask the help of the woman pharmacist that is currently working to counseling would be the best way to manage this situation.
Answer: (e)
Question. Insurance companies pay for the drugs at the cheapest price of substituted medications. According to the following data which medication could be chosen?
a) 40 mg bid with a cost of $0.55/tablet
b) 20 mg qid with a cost of $0.60/tablet
c) 80 mg qd with a cost of $1.90/tablet
d) 120 mg/hs with a cost of $2.30/tablet
e) 40 mg qid with a cost of $0.50/tablet
Answer: (a)