Tests to maintain employment at hospital pharmacies

[Sparda29]

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Does anyone else have to do this ****? Every year I get sent a test about USP 797 protocol and pharmacotherapy. Do normal hospitals do this or is my hospital just being extra for no reason?

And it's actually a hard test where they give very similar answers. (Expiration date for multi-dose vials, 24 hours, 7 days, 28 days, 30 days are the options. Normally I'd just pick the strictest option but these guys actually want the exact answer.)

 

[owlegrad]

We do a 797 test annually as well at my LTC site. But everyone openly shares answers and cheats. No pharmacotherapy questions though.

 

[PharmDBro2017]

Yes, it’s dumb.


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[gwarm01]

The 797 tests have been at every hospital I've ever worked in. We had a fairly easy pharmacology test at my PRN location with very leading questions and obvious answers. My old job had started implementing pretty difficult tests to work in clinical specialty areas after training, but I don't know if those were going to be an annual requirement.

 

[ChalupaBatman86]

Look on the bright side, at least it’s not a drug test


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[Niosh]

Nope, except for sterility testing. Both here and the last place I worked.

 

[BidingMyTime]

Sterility testing and lots of mandatory classes with with open quizzes at the end. Nothing at all on pharmacotherapy.

 

[sakigt]

We have some reading material but yeah. I think that's standard.

28 days but I used to be a tech so maybe that's why its NBD for me

 

[mustang sally]

Seems par for the course to have some kind of annual training or testing to get through. We do it.