Minnesota version of the Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Exam — Information & Free Practice
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Minnesota version of the Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Exam
- Provider
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
- Format
- Fixed-length computer adaptive selected-response examination
- Exam questions
- 120 computer-based questions
- Time limit
- 2.5 hours
- Passing score
- Pass or fail; only scored items calculate the result
Examination outline
Licensure/Personnel (22%)
- Responsibilities of the pharmacist and non-pharmacist personnel, including qualifications, scope, limitations, restrictions, and conditions to practice for pharmacists-in-charge, pharmacists, and non-pharmacist personnel
- Licensures, registrations, and certifications for pharmacists or non-pharmacist personnel, including qualifications, examinations, internships, competency, renewals, discipline, and inability-to-practice programs
Pharmacist Practice (33%)
- Requirements for issuing prescriptions or drug orders, including drug restrictions, practitioner authority and registration, controlled and non-controlled orders, and refill authority
- Conditions under which pharmacist or non-pharmacist personnel participate in drug administration in patient therapy management
- Counseling requirements, including counseling or offering to counsel and documentation
- Returning or reusing drugs
- Regulations and agencies regarding pharmacy practice, including public-health quality and safety and patient and health-record confidentiality
Dispensing Requirements (24%)
- Determining whether prescriptions or drug orders are issued for a legitimate medical purpose and within applicable restrictions
- Transferring prescription or drug-order information between pharmacies by authorized personnel
- Prospective drug utilization reviews, including PMP reporting and access
- Exceptions to dispensing or refilling prescriptions or drug orders
- Labeling of dispensed drugs
- Packaging of dispensed drugs
- Drug product conditions prohibiting dispensing
- Distribution or dispensing of non-prescription pharmaceutical products, including controlled substances and hazardous drugs, administration, labeling, packaging, repackaging, and restricted products
Pharmacy Operations (21%)
- Ordering, acquisition, and distribution of drugs, including record maintenance and content
- Legally compliant recordkeeping and operational requirements, including inventory, storage and handling of hazardous and non-hazardous drugs, non-pharmacist access, and 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
- Registration, licensure, certification, or permitting of practice settings or business entities, including renewal, reinstatement, inspection, and discipline
Examination sources
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, MPJE Competency Statements
Current version notice and complete-scope statement
- 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 Fact Sheet
Page 2, Exam Content
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, Take the MPJE Exam
Exam overview
- Minnesota Legislature, Minnesota Rules Chapter 6800
Minnesota Rules 6800.1300, subpart 1
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, MPJE Fact Sheet
Page 1, MPJE jurisdiction boundary
Related license preparation
This examination may be required or accepted as an alternative, depending on the license and application pathway.