800420 Niosh

Question: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has identified all of the following medications as hazardous drugs.

Answer: Antineoplastic drugs.

Non-antineoplastic drugs the manufacturer has safe handling guidance for.

Non-antineoplastic drugs with reproductive risk.

Question: Review the question that applies to your business unit below and then select the correct answer Choice in the answer key.

RETAIL and PBM Mail: In our pharmacy, which of these activities below are allowed?

Answer: Choice B and D.

Question: Where would you find warnings and special handling for Hazardous Drugs?

Answer: On the manufacture’s Safety Data Sheet.

Question: If a shipment of hazardous drugs arrives with a broken or leaking container, should pharmacy staff do?

Answer: Put on chemotherapy/nitrile gloves and dispose of the bottle via the Hazardous Pharmaceutical Waste program requirements.

Question: Which of the following locations would be the INCORRECT place to dispose of all waste from cleaning up a spill of pharmaceuticals (including contaminated gloves)?

Answer: The trashcan located within the area for handling hazardous waste drugs as long as the bag is sealed.

The outside dumpster in a sealed bag, so that it doesn’t harm other colleagues/customers.

The trash area near the back door, out of the way of colleagues and not outside where others could access it