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LA MPJE · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Controlled Substances and Prescription Monitoring & Pharmacy Practice Standards and Dispensing Requirements

  • Build a one-page controlled-substance schedule chart for Louisiana Schedules II–V, listing at least three example drugs per schedule and the corresponding federal schedule for comparison.

  • Map every Louisiana controlled-substance prescription requirement (written vs. electronic, refill limits, expiration, transfer rules, partial fills) into a single comparison table by schedule.

  • Explain in writing how the Louisiana Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) works: who must query, when a query is mandatory, reporting timelines for dispensers, and exceptions.

  • Work through 15 practice scenarios on controlled-substance validity and record the specific rule that decides each one.

Your checkpoint

A two-page controlled-substance quick-reference sheet (schedule chart plus Louisiana prescription-validity table) that you can self-quiz from without notes.

Week 2

Controlled Substances and Prescription Monitoring & Federal and Louisiana Laws and Regulations

  • Compare federal CSA scheduling, order forms (DEA Form 222/CSOS), recordkeeping, and biennial inventory rules against Louisiana's parallel requirements, noting every place the state is stricter.

  • Outline the reporting duties for theft, significant loss, and in-transit losses, including which agency receives notice and the time limits.

  • Draft a step-by-step procedure a pharmacy technician could follow to receive, store, and dispense a CII order compliantly in Louisiana.

  • Answer 20 mixed federal/state controlled-substance questions and log each miss with the governing rule.

Your checkpoint

A one-page federal-vs-Louisiana controlled-substance gap list with at least 10 items, each tagged with the agency and the rule it comes from.

Week 3

Pharmacy Practice Standards and Dispensing Requirements

  • Write out the required elements of a valid prescription in Louisiana and identify which elements may be added or clarified by a pharmacist versus which require prescriber contact.

  • Explain the rules for generic substitution, patient counseling, and prescription transfers between Louisiana pharmacies and out-of-state pharmacies.

  • Sequence the full dispensing workflow from receipt to patient pickup, flagging every point where a pharmacist's judgment is legally required.

  • Classify 15 sample prescriptions as valid, invalid, or valid-with-follow-up and justify each classification with a specific requirement.

Your checkpoint

A dispensing-workflow checklist covering the full fill process with at least 12 checkpoints, each tied to a Louisiana practice requirement.

Week 4

Pharmacy Practice Standards and Dispensing Requirements & Pharmacy Operations, Personnel, and Facilities

  • List the required physical facility elements for a Louisiana pharmacy (prescription department security, sink, reference library, temperature control) and describe how each is verified at inspection.

  • Define the permitted duties of pharmacy technicians and pharmacy interns in Louisiana and identify which tasks are reserved to the pharmacist.

  • Draft the staffing and supervision rules for a pharmacy, including ratio limits if applicable and pharmacist-presence requirements during operating hours.

  • Complete 25 practice questions across dispensing and operations and score at least 80 percent before moving on.

Your checkpoint

A one-page facility and personnel compliance audit sheet you could walk through a mock pharmacy and check off item by item.

Week 5

Licensure, Registration, and Certification Requirements & Federal and Louisiana Laws and Regulations

  • Trace the Louisiana licensure pathway for pharmacists, including application, examination, intern-hour requirements, and reciprocity/licensure by transfer.

  • Summarize Louisiana pharmacy permit requirements, ownership disclosure, change-of-ownership notification, and renewal/continuing education obligations.

  • Compare Louisiana's Pharmacy Practice Act structure with the federal statutes that overlay it (DEA registration, HIPAA, FDA dispensing limits) and note where state law controls.

  • Build a timeline of every renewal and reporting deadline a Louisiana pharmacist and pharmacy must meet in a calendar year.

Your checkpoint

A one-page licensure and renewal timeline showing each credential, its issuing body, its renewal cycle, and its CE requirement.

Week 6

Federal and Louisiana Laws and Regulations & Professional Conduct, Ethics, and Patient Safety

  • Write out the Louisiana grounds for discipline, the complaint and hearing process, and the range of sanctions the Board may impose.

  • Describe the pharmacist's ethical duties around patient confidentiality, impaired practice, error disclosure, and conflicts of interest, with a Louisiana-specific example for each.

  • Analyze five short ethical dilemmas and state the compliant action plus the rule or principle that supports it.

  • Explain the mandatory reporting obligations that apply to pharmacists in Louisiana and who must be notified.

Your checkpoint

A one-page ethics and discipline decision guide pairing at least eight situations with the correct action and the supporting rule.

Week 7

Controlled Substances and Prescription Monitoring & Professional Conduct, Ethics, and Patient Safety & Pharmacy Practice Standards and Dispensing Requirements

  • Re-review every item you missed in weeks 1–6 and rewrite each as a corrected rule statement in your own words.

  • Complete a 100-question timed mixed practice exam covering all six domains and record your score by domain.

  • Identify your three weakest domains from the practice exam and build a targeted remediation list for each.

  • Rehearse the controlled-substance and patient-safety scenarios you got wrong until you can explain each without notes.

Your checkpoint

A scored 100-question practice exam with a domain-by-domain breakdown and a written remediation list for your three weakest areas.

Week 8

Licensure, Registration, and Certification Requirements & Pharmacy Practice Standards and Dispensing Requirements & Controlled Substances and Prescription Monitoring & Pharmacy Operations, Personnel, and Facilities & Federal and Louisiana Laws and Regulations & Professional Conduct, Ethics, and Patient Safety

  • Take two additional full-length timed practice exams and score at least 75 percent on each.

  • Drill your one-page reference sheets from weeks 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 until you can reproduce the key rules from memory.

  • Review Louisiana-specific numeric rules (time limits, day counts, ratios, CE hours) using spaced repetition each day of the week.

  • Simulate exam-day logistics: confirm test-day requirements, identification, and timing, and complete one final review of missed items.

Your checkpoint

Two completed full-length practice exams with scores of at least 75 percent and a final one-page list of the 20 facts you are most likely to forget.

Milestones

Week 2: You can state any Louisiana controlled-substance prescription requirement and the corresponding federal rule without consulting notes, and your federal-vs-state gap list has at least 10 items.

Week 4: You score at least 80 percent on a 25-question mixed set covering dispensing, facility, and personnel rules, and your facility audit sheet is complete.

Week 6: You can explain the Louisiana disciplinary process and at least eight ethical scenarios with the correct action and supporting rule, and your licensure timeline is finished.

Week 7: Your 100-question mixed practice exam score is recorded by domain, and every missed item has been rewritten as a corrected rule statement.

Week 8: Both full-length practice exams score at least 75 percent, and you can reproduce the key rules from your reference sheets from memory.