Alabama Multi-State Pharmacy Jurisprudence Exam — Information & Free Practice
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Alabama Multi-State Pharmacy Jurisprudence Exam
- Provider
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
- Format
- Computer-adaptive selected-response examination
- Exam questions
- 120 questions: 100 operational scored items and 20 pretest unscored items
- Time limit
- 2.5 hours
- Passing score
- Pass; results are reported as pass or fail
Examination outline
Licensure/Personnel (22%)
- Responsibilities of pharmacist and non-pharmacist personnel: qualifications, scope of duties, limitations, restrictions, or conditions to practice for pharmacists-in-charge (or equivalent) and pharmacists
- Responsibilities of pharmacist and non-pharmacist personnel: qualifications, scope of duties, limitations, restrictions, or conditions to practice for non-pharmacist personnel
- Licensures, registrations, and certifications: qualifications, examinations, internships, maintaining pharmacist competency, and renewals
- Licensures, registrations, and certifications: classifications and processes of disciplinary actions
- Licensures, registrations, and certifications: reporting to and participating in programs addressing inability to practice with reasonable skill and safety
Pharmacist Practice (33%)
- Requirements for issuing prescriptions/drug orders: drug uses, limitations, or restrictions
- Requirements for issuing prescriptions/drug orders: scope of authority, scope of practice, limitations or restrictions, and valid registration of authorized practitioners
- Requirements for issuing non-controlled prescriptions/drug orders
- Requirements for issuing controlled prescriptions/drug orders
- Authority limitations on practitioners' ability to authorize refills
- Conditions under which pharmacist or non-pharmacist personnel participates in drug administration in managing patients' therapy
- Requirements regarding counseling: counseling or offering to counsel
- Requirements regarding counseling: 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
- Regulations and agencies regarding pharmacy practice: 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
- Non-prescription products, including controlled substances and hazardous drugs: dispensing or administration
- Non-prescription products: labeling of non-prescription drugs and devices
- Non-prescription products: packaging and repackaging of non-prescription drugs and behind-the-counter products
- Dispensing-restricted, non-prescription drugs
Pharmacy Operations (21%)
- Ordering and acquisition of drugs, including maintenance and content of records
- Distribution of drugs, including maintenance and content of records
- 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
Examination sources
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
MPJE Competency Statements, scope and transition notice
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
MPJE Competency Statements, state-law application
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
MPJE Competency Statements, Area 1
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
MPJE Competency Statements, Area 2
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
MPJE Competency Statements, Area 3
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
MPJE Competency Statements, Area 4
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
MPJE Fact Sheet dated January 25, 2024, Exam Content
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
Take the MPJE Exam, exam format
- Alabama Board of Pharmacy
Reciprocity, steps 2 and 5-6
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
MPJE/UMPJE overview