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 on
a large screen in a room with others. An invigilator will read step by step instructions to you
for each video station. You will be given time to read through the question sheet before
viewing 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 incorrect
techniques used when preparing to enter a sterile environment, in order to prepare sterile
intravenous medications.

COMPETENCIES TESTED
Competency #4
Drug Distribution: Product Preparation
Unit
4.1
Select, Prepare, and Package Products for Release.
Element
4.1.3 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 are
to observe and evaluate a new pharmacy technician who is gowning prior to preparing a
sterile compound.
The video recording you are about to view shows the new pharmacy technician preparing
herself 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 using
the Observation Checklist below.
2. For each step in the process document what steps the pharmacy technician
performed by filling in the bubble under YES
3. For each step in the process evaluate the technique used in performing the
activity and identify what the pharmacy technician did INCORRECTLY by filling in
the bubble under YES.

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 in

technique 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