Pharmacy Study Guide 2026
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📋 Pharmacy Exam Format at a Glance
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✍️ Sample Pharmacy Questions & Answers
1. When documenting vaccine administration, which information is required under federal law (NCVIA)?
NCVIA requires documentation of: vaccine name/manufacturer, lot number, date given, name/address of administering provider, and the edition date of the VIS provided — all in the patient's permanent medical record.
2. A pharmacy technician notices a medication has an expiration date of '08/2026.' When does this product expire?
A medication expiring '08/2026' is considered usable through the last day of August 2026, which is August 31, 2026.
3. Which drug suffix indicates a "-statin" belongs to the HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor class?
All HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors end in "-vastatin" (atorvastatin, rosuvastatin, simvastatin, pravastatin, lovastatin, fluvastatin, pitavastatin).
4. Ophthalmic solutions must be sterile AND typically buffered to a pH of approximately:
Ophthalmic formulations are buffered near physiologic tear pH of 7.4 to minimize irritation and maintain drug stability.
5. Sulfonamide antibiotics act by competitively inhibiting the bacterial enzyme that uses which substrate?
Sulfonamides structurally mimic PABA and competitively inhibit dihydropteroate synthase, blocking bacterial folate synthesis.
6. What is the PH of the solution if the ratio of ionized to unionized drug species is 103 and PKa = 2.2?
The Henderson-Hasselbalch equation for a weak acid is pH = pKa + log([ionized]/[unionized]). Given pKa = 2.2 and assuming the ratio of ionized to unionized drug species is 1000 (as '103' is likely a typo for 10^3 to match the answer), we can calculate the pH. Substituting the values, pH = 2.2 + log(1000) = 2.2 + 3, which results in a pH of 5.2.
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