Alabama Administrative Code › Title 680 - ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY › Chapter 680-X-2 - PRACTICE OF PHARMACY › Section 680-X-2-.37 - Continuing Education For Pharmacy T echnicians

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1) Pharmacy Technicians shall complete six
			 (6) hours of continuing education within the renewal period, as a condition of
			 registration renewal. By submitting the biennial renewal, a pharmacy technician
			 is representing their compliance with this requirement by the end of the
			 relevant renewal cycle.
(2) Section
			 (1) shall not apply to pharmacy technicians applying for the first renewal of
			 their registration. If a pharmacy technician has only been registered for one
			 full calendar year, they shall complete three (3) hours of continuing education
			 for the first renewal of their license. If a pharmacy technician has been
			 licensed for less than one full calendar year, no continuing education is
			 required for the first renewal of their license.
(3) In order to receive credit for continuing
			 education, the continuing education shall be previously approved by the Board.
			 Any requests for approval of continuing education shall be submitted to the
			 Board no less than thirty 30) calendar days prior to offering of the continuing
			 education. A condition of approval shall be that the continuing education is
			 pertinent to the practice of pharmacy. However, this requirement shall not
			 apply to ACPE approved continuing education courses for which a program number
			 is available.
(4) Continuing
			 Education may be completed by either attendance or by distance-based program,
			 video or by publications; however, a pharmacy technician must complete at least
			 two (2) hours of live continuing education through attendance at a course(s),
			 within each renewal cycle. If a pharmacy technician has only been registered
			 for one full calendar year, they must complete at least one (1) hour of live
			 continuing education.
(5) It is the
			 responsibility of each pharmacy technician to maintain and compile accurate
			 records relating to all continuing education courses or activities they have
			 attended and completed. It shall be the responsibility of each pharmacy
			 technician to maintain above-described documentation and information pertaining
			 to each renewal cycle for a period of two (2) years and this information shall
			 be submitted to the Board of Pharmacy within thirty (30) calendar days after a
			 request for the same by the Board.
(6) The Board of Pharmacy shall randomly
			 audit the continuing education documentation or information to be maintained or
			 submitted by each pharmacy technician as described herein to assure compliance
			 with these rules. Failure to maintain the documentation or information set
			 forth in these rules or the submission of false or misleading information or
			 documentation to the Board of Pharmacy or failure to submit requested
			 documentation or information within the time specified by the Board may subject
			 the pharmacy technician, on the first violation to a non-disciplinary
			 administrative penalty authorized by
Code of Ala.
			 1975
, §
								34-23-132 an amount not less than
			 twenty five dollars ($25.00) or more than one hundred dollars ($100.0) as
			 determined by the board.
(7) Upon
			 written request to the Board of Pharmacy, and upon the demonstration of good
			 and sufficient cause, the Board of Pharmacy may grant a waiver or extension of
			 time for the completion of the annual hour requirements for continuing
			 education as set forth herein. The pharmacy technician who seeks such a waiver
			 or extension shall submit to the Board of Pharmacy any documentation required
			 by the Board which the Board deems appropriate for it to make a decision
			 concerning that waiver or extension.
(8) Any pharmacy technician who allows their
			 registration to lapse for a minimum of one (1) calendar year but not more than
			 five (5) calendar years, shall be required as a condition for reinstatement to
			 provide documentation of their completion of three (3) hours of continuing
			 education in the manner described above for each lapsed calendar year. If a
			 registration is lapsed for more than five (5) calendar years, the Board may
			 require as a condition for reinstatement any amount of continuing education
			 deemed appropriate.
Author:
Donna C. Yeatman, R.Ph., Executive
				  Secretary
Statutory Authority:
Code of Ala.
				  1975
, §
										34-23-92.
The
				amended version of this section by
				Alabama
				Administrative Monthly Volume XLII, Issue No. 09, June 28, 2024,
				filed June 20, 2024 is not yet
				available.