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When is a “near miss” identified during the prescription/medication order-filling process?

Which legislation required risk evaluation and mitigation strategies (REMS) be established?

The ISMP has identified all of the following drug classifications as high-alert classifications in a long-term care facility EXCEPT

A patient presents a prescription for a noncontrolled substance with “prn” refills. How long are refills valid?

Information transmitted during the adjudication of a prescription claim includes all of the following EXCEPT

A pharmacy has received a prescription of amoxicillin suspension for a 4-year-old child. When the parents of the child arrive to pick up the prescription, the pharmacy technician is asked to add 80 mL of distilled water to the suspension powder. Which term describes this action?

A mother is waiting for an antibiotic prescription of amoxicillin suspension for her child and asks the pharmacy technician what she should give her child for a fever. What should the pharmacy technician do?

A pediatric patient is 22 inches long and weighs 7 lb 8 oz at birth. What is their BSA?

A physician prescribes Nexium® and approves dispensing the generic version of the medication. Which of the following medications should the pharmacy technician select from the shelf?

All of the following are examples of dispensing errors EXCEPT