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100

This blood pressure target is considered "normal" according to the American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines.

What is less than 120 over less than 80 (<120/<80)?

100

This is a recall category where a drug is recalled by the FDA, but the problem is unlikely to cause any adverse health consequences.

What is Class 3?
100

This is the term for the date/hour after which a compounded sterile preparation must not be used, stored, or transported. The date is determined from date and time of preparation.

What is Beyond-Use-Date (BUD)?

100

This is the number of grams of sodium chloride (NaCl) in one liter of 0.9% normal saline.

What is nine (9) grams?

100

Commonly shortened to HIPAA, this is the federal law that protects patients' health information

What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?

300

This is the total combined duration (days) that oral ketorolac and IV ketorolac cannot exceed.

What is five (5) days?

300

This is the max pharmacist:technician ratio in an inpatient or satellite pharmacy in CT.

What is 1:5?

300

This is the official public standards-setting authority for all prescription and over-the-counter medicines, dietary supplements, and other healthcare products manufactured in the United States.

What is USP (United States Pharmacopeia)?

300

To administer 1,200 mL of IV fluid over an 8-hour period with a calibration rate of 8 drops/mL, this is the number of drops per minute (drops/min.) that should be administered to a patient.

What is 20 drops per minute (drops/min.)?

300

This founding father was a pharmacist and helped establish the first public hospital and hospital pharmacy in the U.S. 

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

500

This antibiotic is the first-line treatment for Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.

What is Bactrim (sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim)?

500

These are the components of a C2 prescription that CANNOT be changed, even with the provider's approval.

What is patient name, drug name, prescriber name, and date?

500

This is the first item you put on when garbing for USP 797.

What are shoe covers and/or booties?

500

Thirty (30) milligrams of IV morphine is equal to ____ milligrams of oral (PO) morphine.

What is ninety (90) milligram of oral (PO) morphine?

10 mg IV morphine = 30 mg PO morphine

500

This city is known for having the first hospital pharmacy in America, founded in 1751.

What is Philadelphia?

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