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