Generic names, brand names, and classifications of medications 

Therapeutic duplications 

Common or life-threatening drug interactions and contraindications 

Strengths/doses, dosage forms, routes of administration, special handling and administration instructions, and duration of drug therapy 

Common or severe medication side effects, adverse effects, and allergies 

Indications of medications 

Drug stability 

Proper storage of medications 

Federal requirements for storage, handling, and disposal of non-hazardous, hazardous (e.g., P-list), and pharmacological substances and wastes 

Federal requirements for controlled substance prescriptions (i.e., new, refill, transfer) and DEA controlled substance schedules 

Federal requirements for receiving, storing, ordering, labeling, dispensing, returning, take-back programs for, loss or theft of, and destroying controlled substances 

Federal restricted drug programs and related medication-processing requirements (e.g., pseudoephedrine, Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies [REMS]) 

FDA requirements for medication recalls 

FDA product serialization, tracking, tracing, handling, and quarantining requirements (i.e., Drug Supply Chain Security Act [DSCSA]) 

High-alert/risk medications and look-alike/sound-alike (LASA) medications 

Error prevention strategies 

Issues that require pharmacist intervention 

Event reporting procedures 

Types of prescription errors 

Infection prevention procedures and cleaning standards 

Formulas, calculations, ratios, proportions, conversions, Sig codes 

Equipment and supplies required for drug administration 

Lot numbers, expiration dates, and National Drug Code (NDC) numbers 

Procedures for identifying and returning dispensable, non-dispensable, and expired medications and supplies