Drug Legislation & Dispensing Procedures

Question 1

Any substance or mixture of substances manufactured, sold, or represented for use for the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation, or prevention of disease, disorder, abnormal physical state, or the symptoms thereof in man or animal.

Answer 1

Drug

Question 2

A person authorized by the law of a province of Canada to treat patients with any drug listed or described in the Prescription Drug List.

Answer 2

Practitioner

Question 3

Who is defined as a practitioner?

Answer 3

A physician, dentist, or veterinarian licensed to practice in the province of his or her employment.

Question 4

An order by a practitioner directing that a stated amount of any drug or mixture of drugs specified therein be dispensed for the patient named in that order.

Answer 4

Prescription

Question 5

To provide a drug pursuant to a prescription; does not include the administration of the drug.

Answer 5

Dispense

Question 6

What does CFIA stand for?

Answer 6

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Question 7

What is the PDA?

Answer 7

Is the primary provincial legislation regulating the sale of all drugs in the province of Alberta, administered by the Alberta College of Pharmacists

Question 8

What is the VPA?

Answer 8

Defines the requirements for a “registered Veterinarian” (registered with the ABVMA) and further states that only a “registered Veterinarian” can engage in the practise of veterinary medicine, which includes, but is not restricted to, prescribing and dispensing of drugs.

Question 9

Identifies drugs that must be identified by a Pr on the label

Answer 9

Prescription Drug List

Question 10

Who can dispense a PDL?

Answer 10

DVM or RVT (non RVT staff can count pills and pick inventory but needs to be approved by RVT)

Question 11

Does a VCPR have to exist to dispense non-prescription drugs? (T or F)

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Includes the narcotics, identified by N on the label, including any compound derived from opium poppy alkaloids or the synthetic drugs with similar pharmacologic properties

Answer 12

Controlled Drugs

Question 13

3 mandatory things needed to prescribe controlled drugs

Answer 13

• the veterinarian is licensed to practice in that province,
• the animal is a patient under his/her professional care, and
• the drug is required for the condition being treated.

Question 14

What is the TPP?

Answer 14

The TPP is a program administered by the College of Physicians and Surgeons that monitors the prescribing and dispensing of TPP-listed medications. This program allows for recording and tracing of all transactions involving substances of concern.

Question 15

What are the TPP forms and pads?

Answer 15

• Every veterinarian is provided with their own TPP pad upon enrollment in the TPP. The forms are personalized with the veterinarians individual information and the veterinary practise location.
• Pads must not be share. You cannot lend your pad to a co-worker or any other prescriber. Verbal orders for TPP medications are not permitted.

Question 16

What security precautions be made for a TPP?

Answer 16

• The pads need to be kept in a locked environment with access only by the prescriber.
• Should a triplicate prescription pad be lost or stolen, the prescriber must contact the police and notify the CPSA

Question 17

What needs to be on a TPP?

Answer 17

• clinic name,
• client/owners full name,
• ID of the animal,
• total quantity of the prescription—numerically and written, and
• directions for use.

Question 18

When does a TPP not need to be made?

Answer 18

• TPP medications that are used for animals in-clinic, or
• TPP medications that are dispensed from a veterinary clinic for a usage period of less than 96 hours.

Question 19

Veterinary drugs used on food producing animals may be required by law to specify a withdrawal time for meat, milk, eggs.

Answer 19

Withdrawal Times