When you have completed your exam and reviewed your answers, click SUBMIT EXAM . Answers will not be recorded until you hit SUBMIT EXAM . If you need to exit before completing the exam, click CANCEL EXAM . QUESTIONS 1 TO 20: Select the best answer to each question. Note that a question and its answers may be split across a page break, so be sure that you have seen the entire question and all the answers before choosing an answer. 1. The structural formula of a drug is included in this section of a drug monograph. A. Dosage and Administration.
B. Clinical Pharmacology C. How Supplied D. Description 2. A patient calls the pharmacy and asks if it’s safe to take a certain drug while nursing. You pull the package insert and see that it’s the older format. What section do you need to look in? A. Dosage and Administration B. Precautions C.
Clinical Pharmacology D. Warnings 3. If you want to know what dose forms are available for a particular drug, you would look in this section of a drug monograph. A. Adverse Reaction B. How Supplied C. Dosage and Administration D. Warnings 4.
How do you recognize the brand name of a drug in the package insert? A. The brand name is the same as the chemical name. B. The brand name appears in capital letters and is enclosed in parentheses. C. The brand name appears in capital letters and has the registered trademark symbol next to it.
D. The brand name is spelled phonetically and has the registered trademark symbol next to it. 5. This section of a drug monograph would tell you if the drug is soluble in water. A. How Supplied B. Clinical Pharmacology C. Description D. Dosage and Administration 6.
In the revised package insert style, where can you quickly find out the available dosage forms and strengths of a drug? A. Dosage and Administration B. Description C. Highlights D. Use in Specific Populations 7.
To find out if a drug causes nausea, you would look in this section of the drug monograph. A. Contraindications B. Adverse Reactions C. Warnings D. How Supplied 8. The amount of time between the discovery and the marketing of a drug can be up to _______ years. A. 17 B. 12 C. 15 D. 10 9. To learn the best conditions for storing a drug in the pharmacy, you would look at this section of a revised drug monograph.
A. Dosage and Administration B. Precautions C. Description D. How Supplied/Storage and Handling 10. Information on how to treat a patient who has taken a toxic dose of a medication would be found in this section of the drug monograph. A. Precautions B. Overdosage C. Clinical Pharmacology D. Warnings 11. You’ve just assisted the pharmacist in dispensing a drug for a patient with a preexisting heart condition who is concerned about taking the medication.
In which section of the older-style monograph would you check to see what can go wrong in heart patients using this drug? A. Warnings B. Description C. Dosage and Administration D. Indications and Use 12. Once a monograph is placed in a drug package, it’s known as a _______ insert. A. clinical B. monograph C. package D. prescription 13.
A pregnant woman has come to you with a prescription to be filled. She’s concerned about taking the medication because of her pregnancy. In which section of the revised style monograph can you find specific information about pregnancy risks? A. Use in Specific Populations.
B. Clinical Pharmacology C. Description D. Indications and Use 14. This section of drug information, which isn’t included in every monograph, alerts the drug prescriber and user to information concerning serious injury and even death related to the drug’s use in certain situations.
A. Boxed Warning B. How Supplied C. Adverse Reactions D. Contraindications 15. This section of a package insert contains information that indicates under what conditions the drug can’t be used. A. Contraindications B. Warnings C. Clinical Pharmacology D. Indications and Use.
16. A patient asks you what the ingredients are in a Motrin tablet other than the active ingredient, ibuprofen. In which section of the drug monograph will you find this information? A. Description B. How Supplied C. Dosage and Administration D. Clinical Pharmacology 17. If you want to find out how a drug works, you would look in this section of a drug monograph.
A. Indications and Use B. Clinical Pharmacology C. Description D. Precautions 18. In the revised monograph, this combined section details the most clinically significant safety concerns that affect decisions about whether to prescribe the drug.
A. Dosage and Administration B. Warnings and Precautions End of exam C. How Supplied/Storage and Handling D. Indications and Use 19. What should you do if the first section of an NDC number contains only four digits? A. Nothing needs to be done. B. Insert a leading number 1. C. Insert a leading number 0. D. Immediately inform the pharmacist. 20. Where would you find information on drug interactions in an older -style drug monograph? A. Warnings B. Overdosage C. Clinical Pharmacology D. Precautions.