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PEBC PHARMACY TECHNICIAN QUALIFYING EXAMINATION – PART II (OSPE)

SAMPLE STATION #3 Non-Interactive Station (with video)

Some questions about compounding will be delivered on DVD. You will watch the station ona large screen in a room with others. An invigilator will read step by step instructions to youfor each video station. You will be given time to read through the question sheet beforeviewing the video. This is a sample of the station format you might encounter.

TITLE  Preparation for Sterile Compounding 

OBJECTIVES 

To identify and document errors and omissions (missed steps) in procedures and incorrecttechniques used when preparing to enter a sterile environment, in order to prepare sterile

intravenous medications.

COMPETENCIES TESTED 

Competency #4 Drug Distribution : Product PreparationUnit4.1  Select, Prepare, and Package Products for Release.

Element4.1.3  Prepare non-sterile and sterile products.

o  determine the suitable environment / conditions, equipment, and formulation

procedures and techniques required to prepare or compound products.

CANDIDATES INSTRUCTIONS

You are a hospital pharmacy technician working in the Sterile Compounding room. You areto observe and evaluate a new pharmacy technician who is gowning prior to preparing asterile compound.

The video recording you are about to view shows the new pharmacy technician preparingherself to enter the sterile room, to prepare a sterile compound.

When viewing the recorded performance of the pharmacy technician your tasks are to:

1. Observe and document the pharmacy technicians’ performance in gowning usingthe Observation Checklist below.

2. For each step in the process document what steps the pharmacy technicianperformed by filling in the bubble under YES

3. For each step in the process evaluate the technique used in performing theactivity and identify what the pharmacy technician did INCORRECTLY by filling inthe bubble under YES.

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OBSERVATION CHECKLIST – the following steps were observed

 YES STEPS PERFORMED

±  1. Removed jewelry

±  2. Put on gown over clothes

±  3. Washed hands with soap

±  4. Patted hands dry with paper towel and used towel to close tap

±  5. Put on mask

±  6. Put on hair cover

±  7. Put on gloves

±  8. Removed powder form gloves with alcohol spray

±  9. Allowed gloves to air dry under laminar flow hood

TECHNIQUE ERRORS AND OMISSIONS  – the following errors or omissions intechnique were observed

 YES ERROR OR OMISSION OBSERVED

±  1. Failure to wash hands to elbows

±  2. Failure to cap, gown and glove in correct order

±  3. Failure to don gloves in sterile manner

±  4. Touched face or hair after washing hands

±  5. Touched non-sterile item after gloving