QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔When shall the pharmacist verify the withdrawal of drugs when Full-Time pharmacist
is absent and pharmacy is closed at medical facility or correctional institution? NOT
LATER THAN
NAC 639.479 - ✔✔Medical facility - Seventy-two (72) hours after
Correctional institution - Ninety-six (96) hours after
✔✔When shall the pharmacist verify the withdrawal of drugs when facility uses floor
stock and pharmacy is closed? - ✔✔With a full-time pharmacist:
Medical facility - Seventy-two (72) hours after
Correctional institution - Ninety-six (96) hours after
With a part-time or consultant pharmacist:
At least every THIRTY (30) days
NAC 639.479
✔✔As required by the Board, a pharmacy located outside Nevada (i.e. mail order
service) shall provide the following information concerning each prescription for a drug
that is shipped, mailed or delivered to a resident of Nevada....
NRS 639.23284 - ✔✔*patient name
, *prescriber name
*prescription number
*date of the prescription;
*drug name
*purpose of drug (if patient requested)
*strength and quantity of the dose
✔✔A mail order pharmacy located outside of Nevada shall provide a toll-free telephone
service for its Nevada customers to a pharmacist. This telephone service must be
available for.....
NRS 639.23286 - ✔✔at least five (5) days a week and for
at least forty (40) hours a week
*The telephone number must be disclosed on the label attached to each container of
drugs dispensed to a resident of Nevada*
✔✔Every Canadian pharmacy that provides mail order service to a resident of Nevada
shall not sell, distribute or furnish to a resident of this State:
NRS 639.23284 - ✔✔-a controlled substance
-a drug not approved by the FDA
-a quantity of drug that exceeds a 3-month supply
✔✔The Board may grant a waiver from the limitation (a person shall not act as a
managing pharmacist for more than one licensed pharmacy) if pharmacy is located in?
NRS 639.220 - ✔✔-hospital with fewer than 100 beds or
-correctional institution housing fewer than 1,500 inmates
✔✔Tech : RPh ratio for different settings
NAC 639.250 - ✔✔Hospital (RPh dispensing prescriptions) - 3:1
Hospital (RPh supervising distributive functions)
3(2 techs + 1 tech in training):1
Non-hospital pharmacy
- 3:1 or
-1 tech + 2 techs in training
✔✔Are there any circumstances when a pharmacist may supervise more than 3
technicians and techs-in-training?
NAC 639.250 - ✔✔Yes, if
-not more than three techs or techs in training are performing the duties of a technician
and
-a record identifies the techs and techs in training who are performing tech duties