NH MPJE study plan
NH MPJE · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Pharmacy Practice and Licensing (practice of pharmacy, licensure, registration, pharmacy technicians, interns, permits) & Prescription Processing and Dispensing (prescription requirements, refills, transfers, labeling, patient counseling)
Map the New Hampshire Board of Pharmacy statute-and-rule structure well enough to state, from memory, which chapter and which rule series governs licensure versus dispensing
List every NH license, registration, and permit type (pharmacist, technician, intern, pharmacy, nonresident, sterile compounding, automated device) and write the renewal cycle, fee category, and continuing education attached to each
Trace the full path to initial pharmacist licensure in NH, including NAPLEX/MPJE sequencing, intern hour requirements, and reciprocity/licensure by endorsement steps
Draft a one-page comparison of what a technician, a certified technician, and an intern may and may not do under supervision
Complete 40 practice questions on licensure and permit topics and log every miss with the rule that answers it
Your checkpoint
A one-page licensure matrix listing each NH credential with its issuing authority, renewal period, CE requirement, and supervised-practice limits, cross-checked against statute and rule citations.
Prescription Processing and Dispensing (prescription requirements, refills, transfers, labeling, patient counseling)
Build a checklist of every element a valid NH prescription must contain, separating elements required by rule from elements required only for controlled substances
Explain, in writing, NH rules on refills, dispensing beyond one year, partial fills, and prescriber authorization for emergency refills
Describe the legal mechanics of an interpharmacy transfer, including what must be recorded, who may send or receive, and how controlled substance transfers differ
Write out the labeling requirements for a dispensed prescription and identify which auxiliary and counseling information is mandatory versus practice-based
Answer 50 prescription-processing scenarios and classify each error as a legality defect, a documentation defect, or a counseling defect
Your checkpoint
A prescription intake checklist and a separate transfer script, each annotated with the specific NH requirement it satisfies, validated against 50 practice scenarios with at least 90% accuracy.
Controlled Substances and Drug Enforcement (federal CSA and New Hampshire controlled substance law, recordkeeping, inventory, reporting)
Reconstruct the federal scheduling framework and the corresponding NH schedule placements, noting where NH is stricter than federal law
Diagram the closed-system distribution chain and identify the registration, order form, and recordkeeping duty at each handoff
State the federal and NH requirements for biennial inventory, newly scheduled substances, and records of receipt and disposal
Compute the day-supply and prescription limits that apply to Schedule II, III, and IV drugs under NH law and explain prescriber and pharmacist exceptions
Explain reporting duties for theft, significant loss, and in-transit loss, including timeframe and recipient
Your checkpoint
A controlled substance compliance flowchart covering ordering, receipt, storage, dispensing, inventory, and loss reporting, with federal and NH citations side by side and 25 practice questions scored.
Controlled Substances and Drug Enforcement (federal CSA and New Hampshire controlled substance law, recordkeeping, inventory, reporting) & Pharmacist Roles and Responsibilities (scope of practice, collaborative practice, immunization, emergency and public health authority, prescription monitoring program)
Describe how the NH prescription monitoring program is queried, what must be reported, and the timeframe and method for reporting dispensed controlled substances
Identify when a pharmacist is required versus permitted to check the PMP and what to do with the information clinically
Summarize the pharmacist's authority to dispense naloxone, administer immunizations, and act under emergency or public health declarations in NH
Explain the requirements for a collaborative practice agreement and which drug therapy decisions may be delegated
Complete 40 mixed controlled substance and scope-of-practice questions under timed conditions
Your checkpoint
A PMP and scope-of-practice reference sheet covering query triggers, reporting deadlines, immunization authority, and collaborative practice elements, plus a timed 40-question set scored at 85% or better.
Pharmacy Operations, Facilities, and Equipment (pharmacy design, security, record retention, automated systems, sterile and nonsterile compounding)
Specify the physical design and security requirements for a licensed pharmacy, including restricted areas, security, and access control
List the records a pharmacy must retain, the retention period for each category, and the acceptable storage format
Explain the rules for automated dispensing systems and how their use affects accountability and recordkeeping
Differentiate sterile compounding requirements by risk level and identify the facility, environmental monitoring, and documentation expectations that apply
Describe nonsterile compounding standards, including master formulation records and ingredient sourcing
Your checkpoint
A facilities and records audit checklist a pharmacist could walk through in a live pharmacy, organized by area, with the retention period and rule citation for each item.
Patient Safety and Quality Assurance (medication errors, error reporting, adverse event reporting, continuous quality improvement) & Professional Conduct and Discipline (Board enforcement, grounds for discipline, due process, unprofessional conduct, impaired practice)
Classify medication errors by stage of the medication-use process and by severity, and explain the pharmacist's duty to report internally and externally
Identify which adverse events must be reported to the Board or other agencies and within what timeframe
Design a continuous quality improvement cycle that includes error capture, root cause analysis, and a documented corrective action
Enumerate the grounds for discipline under NH law and match each ground to a realistic fact pattern
Explain the disciplinary process from complaint through investigation, hearing, and sanction, including due process rights and appeal
Describe how impaired practice is identified, reported, and handled, including alternative-to-discipline pathways
Your checkpoint
A written case analysis of two hypothetical incident scenarios, each with an error classification, required reports and deadlines, a CQI corrective action plan, and the discipline exposure if the conduct were also unprofessional.
Pharmacy Practice and Licensing (practice of pharmacy, licensure, registration, pharmacy technicians, interns, permits) & Prescription Processing and Dispensing (prescription requirements, refills, transfers, labeling, patient counseling) & Controlled Substances and Drug Enforcement (federal CSA and New Hampshire controlled substance law, recordkeeping, inventory, reporting) & Pharmacy Operations, Facilities, and Equipment (pharmacy design, security, record retention, automated systems, sterile and nonsterile compounding) & Patient Safety and Quality Assurance (medication errors, error reporting, adverse event reporting, continuous quality improvement) & Professional Conduct and Discipline (Board enforcement, grounds for discipline, due process, unprofessional conduct, impaired practice) & Pharmacist Roles and Responsibilities (scope of practice, collaborative practice, immunization, emergency and public health authority, prescription monitoring program)
Take two full-length timed practice exams and record the score for each domain separately
Rank domains by weakest performance and build a targeted remediation list of no more than 15 specific knowledge gaps
Re-read only the statutes and rules tied to those gaps and rewrite each gap as a one-line rule statement
Rehearse prescription-screening and counseling scenarios aloud so explanations match NH-specific requirements
Your checkpoint
A scored diagnostic report showing domain-level performance on both practice exams and a prioritized remediation list of 15 or fewer gaps, each rewritten as a rule statement.
Pharmacy Practice and Licensing (practice of pharmacy, licensure, registration, pharmacy technicians, interns, permits) & Prescription Processing and Dispensing (prescription requirements, refills, transfers, labeling, patient counseling) & Controlled Substances and Drug Enforcement (federal CSA and New Hampshire controlled substance law, recordkeeping, inventory, reporting) & Pharmacy Operations, Facilities, and Equipment (pharmacy design, security, record retention, automated systems, sterile and nonsterile compounding) & Patient Safety and Quality Assurance (medication errors, error reporting, adverse event reporting, continuous quality improvement) & Professional Conduct and Discipline (Board enforcement, grounds for discipline, due process, unprofessional conduct, impaired practice) & Pharmacist Roles and Responsibilities (scope of practice, collaborative practice, immunization, emergency and public health authority, prescription monitoring program)
Close every remaining item on the remediation list and verify each against primary source text
Complete 100 cumulative questions weighted toward the heaviest domains and score at least 85%
Recite from memory the key numeric thresholds: renewal cycles, retention periods, PMP reporting deadlines, refill limits, and loss-reporting timeframes
Practice exam-day logistics, including timing per question and a strategy for statute-versus-rule ambiguity
Your checkpoint
A final one-page numeric-threshold cheat sheet recited from memory without notes, plus a cumulative 100-question set scored at 85% or higher and a clean, closed remediation list.
Milestones
Week 2: Score at least 85% on a 50-question prescription processing set and correctly complete a transfer and a refill scenario without referencing notes.
Week 4: Score at least 85% on a timed 40-question controlled substance and scope-of-practice set and state PMP reporting deadlines and query triggers from memory.
Week 6: Produce both incident case analyses with correct reporting recipients, deadlines, and disciplinary grounds, and pass a 30-question patient safety and discipline set at 80% or better.
Week 8: Score 85% or higher on the cumulative 100-question exam with no domain below 75%, and recite the numeric-threshold cheat sheet from memory.