IL MPJE case studies
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The Illinois Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination (IL MPJE) is the jurisprudence component of pharmacist licensure in Illinois. NABP administers the MPJE nationally and builds the Illinois version around state-specific law developed with the Illinois Board of Pharmacy; candidates for Illinois licensure must also pass the NAPLEX and satisfy IDFPR's licensure requirements. The IL MPJE case studies are 5 cases and about 4,851 words.
1The Altered Schedule II and the Lapsed DEA Registration
Marcus Bell, PharmD, is the closing pharmacist at a two-pharmacist community pharmacy in Rockford, Illinois. a 31-year-old man presents a paper prescription for oxycodone 30 mg, quantity 90, 'one tablet by mouth four times daily as needed for pain,' written four days earlier by an Illinois physician whose office is 60 miles away.
960 words, about 5 min2The Edge of the Collaborative Practice Agreement
Patel, PharmD, practices in a family medicine clinic in Springfield, Illinois, under a written collaborative agreement with a physician. The agreement authorizes her to manage warfarin therapy (including dose adjustment), titrate statin therapy based on lipid panels, and order INR and lipid laboratory tests; it names the physician and a covering physician for absences.
902 words, about 5 min3The New PIC's First Monday
The new pharmacist-in-charge of a 40-year-old independent pharmacy in Decatur, Illinois, starts on a Monday. On her first walkthrough she finds: (1) the most recent DEA biennial inventory in the binder is dated 26 months ago; (2) a locked cabinet holds nine boxes of fentanyl transdermal patches expired between four and eleven months ago, intermingled with current stock; (3) fourteen bottles of promethazine–codeine syrup for which no invoice or receiving record can be located; (4) the CSOS certificate and Form 222 power of attorney of the previous PIC, who left ten weeks ago, are still active; and (5) a bottle in the dispensing queue carries a manufacturer lot number matching a Class II recall notice sitting on her desk.
1,014 words, about 5 min4Three Prescriptions, One Closed Prescriber
A community pharmacy in Chicago receives three problematic orders in one afternoon. (1) For a 2-year-old whose weight is not on the prescription: 'amoxicillin 250 mg/5 mL - 10 mL by mouth three times daily for 10 days; dispense 150 mL.' (2) For a 4-year-old with an upper respiratory infection: 'promethazine with codeine syrup - 5 mL every 6 hours as needed for cough; dispense 120 mL.' (3) An electronic prescription for alprazolam 0.5 mg, quantity 30, 'one tablet at bedtime,' two refills, with a 'do not fill before' date of next Tuesday, transmitted today.
962 words, about 5 min5A Recall Lot and a Warfarin-for-Amlodipine Swap
On a Tuesday morning the pharmacist-in-charge of a busy pharmacy in Oak Lawn, Illinois, opens a Class II recall notice: one lot of metoprolol succinate ER 50 mg (lot MK4471) is subpotent. The pharmacy dispensed 41 bottles from that lot in the last 100 days; 34 patients can be matched to dispensing records, but 7 cannot because several cash transactions were rung up without a complete patient record.
1,013 words, about 5 min