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PTCE Pharmacy Technician

Category - Prescriptions

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Dr. Johnson calls and wants to email a prescription for Lorazepam to your pharmacy. What do you tell him?
  1. Send it over and we will get working on it right away.
  2. Lorazepam is backordered; send the prescription over for the brand name, Ativan, instead.
  3. Lorazepam cannot be sent to a pharmacy electronically, send it over by fax instead.
  4. Lorazepam cannot be sent to a pharmacy electronically, let me get you the pharmacist so you can call it in instead.
Explanation
Answer: D - Lorazepam cannot be sent to a pharmacy electronically, let me get you the pharmacist so you can call it in instead. Due to a recent re-evaluation of the Controlled Substance Act, prescriptions for schedule 3-5 drugs cannot be sent by fax or email. They can only be called in by telephone or delivered in person.
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