Answer ALL questions in this part. Choose (by CIRCLING) ONLY ONE ANSWER for each question.

1) Regarding the SOAP notes, which of the following is FALSE?

a) Subjective and objective data are the bases of creating the list of the patient’s medical problems
b) The pharmacist should recommend the parameters to monitor the effects of drug therapy
c) To assess a response of a patient’s problem to drug therapy, the pharmacist must look at the
subjective and the objective data of the problem in the progress notes
d) All above
e) None above
2) Regarding pharmaceutical care, which of the following is FALSE?
a) It should be provided by a pharmacist
b) It should NOT be provided to patients outside hospitals
c) Pharmaceutical care provider should be responsible and accountable
d) a & b
e) b & c
3) Which of the following is USEFUL in determining whether the patient is anemic or not?
a) MCV
b) MCHC
c) MCH
d) All above
e) None above
4) A patient is found to have elevated levels of troponin I, creatine kinase, and lactate dehydrogenase.
These results are consistent with
a) Acute hepatic injury
b) Chronic hepatic Failure
c) Renal failure
d) Any of the above
e) None above
5) Which of the following is useful to assess hepatic synthetic function?
a) GGT
b) Serum albumin
c) Total bilirubin
d) Any of the above
e) None above
6) Which of the following is a test result that is NOT seen in tonsillitis caused by Streptococcus pyogenes?
a) Elevated WBC count
b) Elevated neutrophil percent
c) Elevated absolute neutrophil count
d) Any of the above
e) None above
7) In nowadays pharmacy practice,
a) The pharmacist job is to dispense the prescribed drugs
b) The pharmacist job is compounding the ingredients of each prescribed drug
c) The pharmacist job is to provide patient-focused care
d) All above
e) None above
8) In the early encounter with the patient, the most important data to be collected by the pharmacist is/are
a) Patient’s compliance

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 b) Past medication history
c) Drug allergies
d) a & b
e) a, b & c
9) In the pharmaceutical care system, which of the following is FALSE?
a) The pharmacist evaluates the patient’s drug-related needs by examining the patient’s body
systems
b) The pharmacist identifies the drug-related problems by looking at the patient’s current drug
therapy
c) The pharmacist identifies the patient’s drug-related needs by retrieving the patient’s medical
record
d) a & b
e) a & c
10) Regarding pharmaceutical care, which of the following is FALSE?
a) It is a drug-oriented care that is provided by a pharmacist
b) To be a pharmaceutical care provider, the pharmacist should receive training in the academic
study
c) There should be legislations in order for the pharmacist to provide pharmaceutical care
d) All above
11) Which of the following acute renal failure type can occur due to interaction between an ACE inhibitor
such as enalapril & an NSAID such as diclofenac?
a) Prerenal ARF
b) Intrinsic ARF
c) Functional ARF
d) Any of the above
e) None above
12) Which of the following patients has a better renal function?
a) A patient with diabetes, hypertension, and eGFR =70 mL/min
b) A patient with diabetes, hypertension, microalbuminuria, and eGFR =70 mL/min
c) A patient with diabetes, hypertension, albuminuria, and eGFR =70 mL/min
d) The three patients above have the same renal function
13) Regarding pharmaceutical care, which of the following is FALSE?
a) Achieve definite outcomes
b) Contribute into improving the overall medical care
c) Improve the quality of life of the patient
d) All above
e) None above
14) Unnecessary drug therapy is a drug-related problem if
a) The patient use a drug without a medical Indication
b) The patient is not compliant to his drug therapy
c) No monitoring of the effectiveness of drug therapy
d) No monitoring of the safety of drug therapy
15) Which of the following is NOT included in the pharmaceutical care system?
a) Compounding of ingredients of the prescribed drug to the patient
b) Assessment of patient’s drug-related needs
c) Creating pharmaceutical care plan for the patient
d) Monitoring the outcomes of patient’s drug therapy
16) Regarding the patient’s drug-related problems (DRPs),

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 a) They are defined as the drug adverse reactions that appear after the patient uses the drug
b) They can occur because the patient is on a drug
c) They can occur because the patient is not on a drug
d) a & b
e) b & c
17) Which of the following is NOT suitable for iron therapy monitoring?
a) Hemoglobin
b) Hematocrit
c) Band cells
d) All above
e) None above
18) Sources of laboratory errors include
a) Spoiled sample
b) Delay in analyzing the sample
c) Wrong time of sampling
d) All above
e) a & b only
19) Regarding liver function tests (LFT),
a) Peripheral edema may occur in advanced liver disease due to less hepatic synthesis of albumin
b) Increased prothrombin time (PT) reflects a deterioration in the synthetic capabilities of the liver
c) Aspartate Transaminase (AST) elevation is exclusively due to acute liver damage (e.g., by statins)
d) a & b
e) a & c
20) Which of the following may increase after a car accident?
a) Albumin
b) Alkaline phosphatase
c) Aspartate transaminase
d) a & b
e) b & c

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