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Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination (MPJE) for New Jersey — Information & Free Practice

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Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination (MPJE) for New Jersey

Provider
National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
Format
Computer-based adaptive exam of selected-response questions
Exam questions
120
Time limit
2.5 hours
Passing score
Reported as pass or fail; N.J.A.C. 13:39-2.2(b) and 13:39-2A.5(a) require a passing score of not less than 75
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; the same 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
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