Arizona Administrative Code › Title 4 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS › Chapter 23 - BOARD OF PHARMACY › Article 6 - PERMITS AND DISTRIBUTION OF DRUGS › Section R4-23-651 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions apply to
				  R4-23-651 through
				  R4-23-659:
"Administration" means the giving of a dose of medication to
				  a patient as a result of an order of a medical practitioner.
"Direct copy" means an electronic, facsimile or carbonized
				  copy.
"Dispensing for hospital inpatients" means the interpreting,
				  evaluating, and implementing a medication order including preparing for
				  delivery a drug or device to an inpatient or inpatient's agent in a suitable
				  container appropriately labeled for subsequent administration to, or use by, an
				  inpatient (hereafter referred to as "dispensing").
"Drug distribution" means the delivery of drugs other than
				  "administering" or "dispensing."
"Emergency medical situation" means a condition of emergency
				  in which immediate drug therapy is required for the preservation of health,
				  life, or limb of a person or persons.
"Floor stock" means a supply of essential drugs not labeled
				  for a specific patient and maintained and controlled by the pharmacy at a
				  patient care area for the purpose of timely administration to a patient of the
				  hospital.
"Formulary" means a continually revised compilation of
				  pharmaceuticals (including ancillary information) that reflects the current
				  clinical judgment of the medical staff.
"Hospital pharmacy" means a pharmacy, as defined in A.R.S.
				  §
									32-1901,
				  that holds a current permit issued by the Board pursuant to A.R.S. §
									32-1931,
				  and is located in a hospital as defined in A.R.S. §
									32-1901.
"Inpatient" means any patient who receives
				  non-self-administered drugs from a hospital pharmacy for use while within a
				  facility owned by the hospital.
"Intravenous admixture" means a sterile parenteral solution
				  to which one or more additional drug products have been added.
"Medication order" means a written, electronic, or verbal
				  order from a medical practitioner or a medical practitioner's authorized agent
				  for administration of a drug or device.
"On-call" means a pharmacist is available to:
Consult or provide drug information regarding drug therapy or
				  related issues; or
Dispense a medication order and review a patient's medication
				  order for pharmaceutical and therapeutic feasibility under
				  R4-23-653(E)(2)
				   before any drug is administered to a
				  patient, except as specified in
				  R4-23-653(E)(1).
"Patient care area" means any area for the primary purpose of
				  providing a physical environment that is owned by or operated in conjunction
				  with a hospital, for a patient to obtain health care services, except those
				  areas where a physician, dentist, veterinarian, osteopath, or other medical
				  practitioner engages primarily in private practice.
"Repackaged drug" means a drug product that is transferred by
				  pharmacy personnel from an original manufacturer's container to another
				  container properly labeled for subsequent dispensing.
"Satellite pharmacy" means a work area in a hospital setting
				  under the direction of a pharmacist that is a remote extension of a centrally
				  licensed hospital pharmacy and owned by and dependent upon the centrally
				  licensed hospital pharmacy for administrative control, staffing, and drug
				  procurement.
"Single unit" means a package of medication that contains one
				  discrete pharmaceutical dosage form.
"Supervision" means the process by which a pharmacist directs
				  the activities of hospital pharmacy personnel to a sufficient degree to ensure
				  that all activities are performed accurately, safely, and without risk of harm
				  to patients.