Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination for Louisiana — Information & Free Practice
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Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination for Louisiana
- Provider
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
- Format
- Computer-based adaptive selected-response examination
- Exam questions
- 120 questions
- Time limit
- 2.5 hours
Examination outline
Licensure/Personnel (22%)
- Responsibilities of the pharmacist and non-pharmacist personnel
- Qualifications, scope of duties, limitations, and restrictions of duties, or conditions to practice for pharmacists-in-charge (or equivalent) and pharmacists
- Qualifications, scope of duties, limitations, and restrictions of duties, or conditions to practice for non-pharmacist personnel
- Licensures, registrations, and certifications for pharmacists or non-pharmacist personnel
- Qualifications, examinations, internships, maintaining pharmacist competency, and renewals of licensures, registrations, or certifications
- Classifications and processes of disciplinary actions
- Reporting to and participating in programs addressing the inability to practice with reasonable skill and safety
Pharmacist Practice (33%)
- Requirements for issuing prescriptions/drug orders
- Requirements for drug uses, limitations, or restrictions
- Scope of authority, scope of practice, limitations or restrictions of practice, and valid registration of practitioners who are authorized to prescribe, dispense, or administer drugs
- Requirements for issuing non-controlled prescriptions/drug orders
- Requirements for issuing controlled prescriptions/drug orders
- Authority limitations of practitioners' ability to authorize refills
- Conditions under which the pharmacist or non-pharmacist personnel participates in the administration of drugs in the management of patients' therapy
- Requirements regarding counseling
- Counseling or offering to counsel
- Documenting counseling or documenting offering to counsel
- Returning or reusing drugs
- Regulations and agencies regarding pharmacy practice
- Requirements for promoting quality and safety of public health
- Protecting patient and health record confidentiality
Dispensing Requirements (24%)
- Responsibilities for determining whether prescriptions/drug orders are issued for a legitimate medical purpose, and within all applicable restrictions
- Transferring prescription/drug order information between pharmacies by authorized personnel
- Prospective drug utilization reviews
- Requirements for reporting to PMP and accessing PMP data
- Exceptions to dispensing or refilling prescriptions/drug orders
- Labeling of dispensed drugs
- Packaging of dispensed drugs
- Drug product conditions prohibiting dispensing
- Requirements for the distribution and/or dispensing of non-prescription pharmaceutical products, including controlled substances and hazardous drugs
- Dispensing or administration
- Labeling of non-prescription drugs and devices
- Packaging and repackaging of non-prescription drugs and behind-the-counter products
- Dispensing-restricted, non-prescription drugs
Pharmacy Operations (21%)
- Ordering, acquisition, and distribution of drugs, including maintenance and content of such records
- Ordering and acquisition, including the maintenance and content of such records
- Distribution, including the maintenance and content of such records
- Recordkeeping in compliance with legal requirements, including content, inventory, maintenance, storage, handling, and reporting
- Non-dispensing requirements for operations of pharmacies or practice settings
- Possession, storage, and handling of non-hazardous drugs
- Training, possession, handling, storage, and disposal of hazardous drugs
- Allowing non-pharmacist personnel access to drugs
- Requirements for conducting controlled substance inventories
- Delivery of drugs
- Conditions for permitted or mandated product selection
- Compounding sterile, nonsterile, hazardous, and non-hazardous preparations
- Centralized prescription processing or central-fill pharmacy dispensing
- Requirements for the registration, licensure, certification, or permitting of a practice setting or business entity
- Requirements for registration, license, certification, or permitting of a practice setting
- Requirements for the renewal or reinstatement of a license, registration, certificate, or permit of a practice setting
- Requirements for an inspection of a licensed, registered, certified, or permitted practice setting
- Classifications and processes of disciplinary actions that may be taken against a registered, licensed, certified, or permitted practice setting
Examination sources
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, MPJE Competency Statements
Current-version boundary and examination scope
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, MPJE Competency Statements
Area 1 - Licensure/Personnel
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, MPJE Competency Statements
Area 2 - Pharmacist Practice
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, MPJE Competency Statements
Area 3 - Dispensing Requirements
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, MPJE Competency Statements
Area 4 - Pharmacy Operations
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, MPJE/UMPJE Test Day Information
Test Day Information, examination format and results
- Louisiana Board of Pharmacy, Examinations (Pharmacy Interns & Pharmacists)
Administration and applicant eligibility