California Code of Regulations › Title 9 - Rehabilitative and Developmental Services › Division 1 - Department of Mental Health › Chapter 3.5 - Mental Health Rehabilitation Centers › Article 5 - Basic Services › Section 785.24 - Pharmaceutical Service-Orders for Drugs

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) No drugs
				  shall be administered except upon the order of a person lawfully authorized to
				  prescribe for and treat human illness.
(b) All drug orders shall be written, dated, and
				  signed by the person lawfully authorized to give such an order. The name, quantity
				  or specific duration of therapy, dosage and time or frequency of administration of
				  the drug, and the route of administration if other than oral shall be specific.
				  "P.R.N." order shall also include the indication for use of a drug.
(c) Verbal orders for drugs and treatments shall
				  be received only by licensed nurses, psychiatric technicians, pharmacists,
				  physicians, physicians' assistants from their supervising physicians only, and
				  certified respiratory therapists when the orders relate specifically to respiratory
				  care. Such orders shall be recorded immediately in the client's health record by the
				  person receiving the order and shall include the date and time of the order. The
				  order shall be signed by the prescriber within five days.
(d) The signing of orders shall be by signature or
				  a personal computer key. Signature stamps shall not be used.
1. New section
					 filed 8-21-95 as an emergency; operative 8-21-95 (Register 95, No. 34). A
					 Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 2-17-95 or emergency
					 language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2.
					 New section refiled 2-9-96 as an emergency; operative 2-9-96 (Register 96, No. 6). A
					 Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 6-8-96 or emergency language
					 will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
3. New section
					 refiled 6-10-96 as an emergency; operative 6-10-96 (Register 96, No. 24). A
					 Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 10-8-96 or emergency
					 language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
4.
					 New section refiled 10-8-96 as an emergency; operative 10-8-96 (Register 96, No.
					 41). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 2-5-97 or emergency
					 language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
5.
					 Certificate of Compliance as to 10-8-96 order transmitted to OAL 2-5-97; disapproved
					 by OAL and order of repeal as to 10-8-96 order filed on 3-21-97 (Register 97, No.
					 12).
6. New section filed 3-21-97 as an emergency; operative 3-21-97
					 (Register 97, No. 12). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by
					 7-21-97 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following
					 day.
7. Certificate of Compliance as to 3-21-97 order, including
					 renumbering of former section
					 785.24 to new section
					 785.21, and renumbering of former
					 section 785.27 to new section
					 785.24, transmitted to OAL 7-21-97 and
					 filed 8-21-97 (Register 97, No. 34).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						5675
						and
						5768,
						Welfare and Institutions Code; Section
						3 of Chapter 678 of the Statutes of
						1994. Reference: Sections
						5675
						and
						5768,
						Welfare and Institutions Code.