Advanced CPhT case studies
Advanced CPhT · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Advanced Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT-Adv) is a PTCB credential that sits one level above the entry-level Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) certification. Where the CPhT documents the core competency needed to practice, the CPhT-Adv is aimed at experienced technicians who want to formally demonstrate deeper, more specialized practice - the kind of work that touches medication safety and quality, regulatory compliance and controlled substances handling, pharmacy operations, and direct patient care and education. The Advanced CPhT case studies are 5 cases and about 4,857 words.
1Normal Saline Backorder: Choosing a Compliant Path
You are the lead technician at a 180-bed community hospital. Your wholesaler just notified you that 100 mL 0.9% sodium chloride IV bags are on 100% allocation through the end of the quarter.
937 words, about 5 min2A 34% Override Rate Behind a Wrong-Patient Administration
In a 300-bed hospital, a nurse removed levetiracetam 500 mg from an automated dispensing cabinet for one patient and administered it to the patient in the other bed of the same room. Both patients had similar last names starting with "Mar-." No harm occurred; the dose was within the range both patients could have received.
893 words, about 4 min3Cash Pay, Ninety Miles From Home
You work in a community pharmacy in a state with a prescription drug monitoring program. A 34-year-old new patient presents a prescription for oxycodone 30 mg #120, one tablet four times daily, no refills, written by a prescriber 90 miles away in another county.
964 words, about 5 min4The Teach-Back That Did Not Work
You are the technician in an ambulatory clinic. A 71-year-old man with COPD is being discharged after an exacerbation.
1,025 words, about 5 min5Spill in the Negative-Pressure Hazardous Drug Room
You are the IV room technician in a hospital oncology service. While preparing a 1,000 mg cyclophosphamide CSP in a Class II biological safety cabinet inside a negative-pressure hazardous drug room, the syringe-to-tubing connection separates.
1,038 words, about 5 min