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| --- |\n| 1 | Medications | 35% |\n| 1.1 | Generic names, brand names, and classifications of medications |  |\n| 1.2 | Therapeutic duplications |  |\n| 1.3 | Common or life-threatening drug interactions and contraindications (e.g. , drug-drug, drug-dietary supplement, drug-laboratory, drug-nutrient, drug-disease) |  |\n| 1.4* | Strengths/doses, dosage forms, routes of administration, special handling and administration instructions, and duration of drug therapy |  |\n| 1.5 | Common or severe medication side effects, adverse effects, and allergies |  |\n| 1.6 | Indications of medications |  |\n| 1.7* | Drug stability (e.g. , oral suspensions, insulins, reconstitutables, injectables, vaccinations) |  |\n| 1.8 | Proper storage of medications (e.g. , temperature ranges, light sensitivity, restricted access) |  |\n| 2 | Federal Requirements | 18.75% |\n| 2.1 | Federal requirements for storage, handling, and disposal of non-hazardous, hazardous (e.g. , P-list) , and pharmacological substances and wastes |  |\n| 2.2* | Federal requirements for controlled substance prescriptions (i.e. , new, refill, transfer) and DEA controlled substance schedules |  |\n| 2.3 | Federal requirements for receiving, storing, ordering, labeling, dispensing, returning, take-back programs for, loss or theft of, and destroying controlled substances |  |\n| 2.4* | Federal restricted drug programs and related medication-processing requirements (e.g. , pseudoephedrine, Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies [ REMS]) |  |\n\nPTCE Content Outline v1 .4-August 2024-Page 1  \n| 2.5 | FDA requirements for medication recalls |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 2.6 | FDA product serialization, tracking, tracing, handling, and quarantining requirements (i.e. , Drug Supply Chain Security Act [DSCSA]) |  |\n| 3 | Patient Safety and Quality Assurance | 23.75% |\n| 3.1 | High-alert/risk medications and look-alike/sound-alike (LASA) medications |  |\n| 3.2 | Error prevention strategies (e.g. , prescription or medication order to correct patient, Tall Man lettering, separating inventory, leading and trailing zeros, bar code usage, limit use of error-prone abbreviations) |  |\n| 3.3* | Issues that require pharmacist intervention (e.g. , drug utilization review [DUR], adverse drug event [ADE], OTC recommendation, therapeutic substitution, misuse, adherence, post-immunization delivery care, allergies, drug interactions) |  |\n| 3.4 | Event reporting procedures (e.g. , medication errors, adverse effects, product integrity, MedWatch, VAERS, near miss, root-cause analysis [RCA], continuous quality improvement [CQI]) |  |\n| 3.5* | Types of prescription errors (e.g. , incorrect dose, quantity, patient, drug, route of administration) |  |\n| 3.6 | Infection prevention procedures and cleaning standards (e.g. , handwashing, personal protective equipment [PPE], cleaning counting trays, countertops, and equipment) |  |\n| 4 | Order Entry and Processing | 22.50% |\n| 4.1* | Formulas, calculations, 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