Maine MPJE Exam Prep FREE Sample Exam — Fixed Set

Under the rule, how long may an active taper continue before the limits apply again?

An active taper may continue for two years before the limits apply

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An active taper ends the limits' application permanently

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The active taper exemption lasts a maximum taper period of six months, after which the limits apply unless another exception applies

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The taper period is thirty days at most

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Under the Board’s rules, how many hours per week must a retail pharmacy be open for business, and what relief exists?

At least sixty hours per week, with no waiver available

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At least twenty hours per week, and the pharmacist in charge may waive it at will

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There is no minimum, because each pharmacy sets its own hours freely

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At least forty hours per week, and the Board may waive the requirement for good cause

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Pharmacist Dana Whitaker faces board charges over repeated recordkeeping violations. Rather than contest the charges at a formal hearing, she is offered a written agreement that resolves the case if she accepts probation, a monetary fine, and periodic record audits. May board charges be resolved in this way?

Only if a criminal court approves the agreement first

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Yes. A licensee may resolve board charges through a consent agreement or consent order that imposes conditions such as probation, a fine, and monitoring

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No. Every board charge must be decided at a full contested hearing, even when the licensee agrees to the outcome

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Yes, but a consent agreement may only dismiss the charges outright and can never include conditions

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Under the rule, what must a compliant monitoring check review about the amount of opioid therapy?

Only the equivalents of the new prescription, ignoring current therapy

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The equivalents of prescriptions filled in the previous seven days only

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A simple count of opioid tablets dispensed in the past year

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The person's aggregate morphine milligram equivalents, including the anticipated new prescription

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A prescription for tablets names the patient and prescriber, is dated and signed, and gives the drug, strength, and directions to take one tablet twice daily, but it never states how many tablets are to be dispensed. What is the defect?

The directions are missing because a dosing interval is stated

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The prescription is complete because the pharmacist can infer a quantity from the directions

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The prescriber must rewrite it as an electronic prescription before any quantity can be accepted

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The quantity to be dispensed is a required element and is missing

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Pharmacist Carla Nguyen wants to contact a patient’s prescriber about a possible interaction she spotted during prospective review. The patient objects that he never signed any form authorizing the pharmacy to talk to his prescriber about his medications. What is correct?

She must obtain his signed authorization before any communication with the prescriber

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She must abandon the interaction concern, because the objection ends her review duties

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She may communicate only if the patient pays for a consultation visit first

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She may communicate with the prescriber for treatment without his authorization, because treatment communications do not require it

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A patient starting a prescribed course of an oral antibiotic tells pharmacist Paul Grant she plans to stop taking it as soon as her fever is gone, probably on day three, and save the rest for a future illness. Which counseling response addresses the duration point correctly?

Agree that stopping when symptoms resolve is the usual plan

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Explain that she should take the medication for the full prescribed duration, even if she feels better sooner, and not save or reuse leftover doses on her own

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Tell her to double the remaining doses so the course finishes sooner

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Tell her duration does not matter as long as each dose is taken with food

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Priya is revising a training manual and needs the size of the Maine Board of Pharmacy. How many members does the Board have?

Seven members

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Nine members

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Five members

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Eleven members

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A prescriber exceeds the opioid limits and a colleague assumes the licensing board will bring the limit case. Who enforces the limit sections?

The prescriber's licensing board enforces them exclusively

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The Department of Health and Human Services enforces them, not the licensing boards

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The Board of Pharmacy enforces them against all prescribers

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Local prosecutors enforce them as criminal cases

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A trainer is listing the transfer-related duty in the Board’s license-required list for technicians. Which transfer duty is listed?

Receipt of a transferred prescription for a Schedule II controlled substance

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Receipt of a transferred prescription for a noncontrolled drug

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Initiating a transfer of a prescription to another pharmacy on the technician's own authority

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Verifying the clinical appropriateness of a transferred prescription

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Blair takes a two-credit approved college course and asks how much continuing education credit it can yield in one calendar year. What is correct?

The course yields thirty hours that year, because the per-credit rate has no cap

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The course yields no credit, because academic courses never count

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The course yields seven and one-half hours, because academic credit is halved

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Credit runs at fifteen hours per college credit but is capped at fifteen hours in any one calendar year, so the course yields fifteen hours that year

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Which statement about concurrent benzodiazepine and opioid prescribing in Maine is accurate?

Concurrent prescribing is prohibited outright by the monitoring chapter

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No prohibition or separate cap on concurrent benzodiazepine and opioid prescribing was found in the monitoring chapter, the prescriber limit sections, or the program rule sections on prescribing and limits

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Concurrent prescribing carries its own separate aggregate cap of fifty equivalents

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Concurrent prescribing is allowed only in hospitals

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