PTCB PTCE® sample questions
Free sample questions for the PTCB PTCE®, each with the answer, a rationale and the public sources behind it.
Federal Requirements
- Six-month limit on schedule III and IV refills
- Daily pseudoephedrine sales limit
- What a REMS is
- Federal schedules of common controlled drugs
- Filing schedule III to V paper prescriptions (red 'C' stamp)
- Elements to assure safe use (ETASU) in a REMS
- Hazardous drug spill response
- Refill transfer limits
- Initial electronic transfer
- Form 222 record handling
- rems program requirements
Medications
- Generic name of Zyprexa
- Sublingual nitroglycerin directions
- Advair Diskus dosage form
- Inhaled insulin dosage form
- Generic name of Actos
- Matching brand names to generic names
- ACE inhibitor (-pril) vs ARB (-sartan)
- Beta-blocker class (-olol)
- Labeled use of allopurinol
- Cardiovascular drug classes
- Diuretic subclasses
- Levothyroxine overtreatment
- Insulin duration and names
- Benzodiazepine boxed warnings
- Psychiatric drug classes
- Antimicrobial classes
- Respiratory and allergy classes
- Respiratory and allergy classes
- drug classes
- Opioid adverse effects
- Alendronate contraindications
Order Entry and Processing
- sig codes
- route abbreviations
- missing dosing frequency
- Nebulizer solution dilution
- Acetylcysteine diluent selection
- Interpreting percent strength
- Acetylcysteine label concentrations
- Tablet dose
- Dosage form instructions
- Suspension handling
- Infusion order information
- Route codes
- Error-prone abbreviations
- Potentially creditable returns
Patient Safety and Quality Assurance
- Tall-man lettering
- Look-alike names
- Order entry clarification
- Order entry verification
- Recall classifications
- MedWatch reporting
- REMS safe-use requirements
- High-alert safeguards
- High-alert medication identification
- Look-alike safeguards
- OTC warnings requiring referral
- Identifying review issues
- Classifying prescription discrepancies
- Environmental cleaning priorities
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