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NH MPJE study plan

NH MPJE · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

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.

Week 2

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.

Week 3

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.

Week 4

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.

Week 5

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.

Week 6

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.

Week 7

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.

Week 8

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.