Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 68 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY › Article 22 - ELECTRONIC SUPERVISION OF MEDICAL CARE FACILITY'S PHARMACY PERSONNEL › Section 68-22-5 - Minimum operating requirements

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a) A pharmacy student or pharmacy technician
			 may enter the pharmacy without a pharmacist present for purposes of turning on
			 the data, video, or audio links and determining if a pharmacist is available
			 for electronic supervision.
(b)
			 Electronic supervision shall not be permitted if an interruption occurs in any
			 of the data, video, or audio links. Whenever an interruption in any of the
			 data, video, or audio links occurs, no medication order shall be filled or
			 dispensed using electronic supervision.
(c) Data entry may be performed by the
			 electronically supervising pharmacist or the pharmacy student or pharmacy
			 technician being electronically supervised. Each entry performed by an
			 electronically supervised pharmacy student or pharmacy technician shall be
			 verified by the electronically supervising pharmacist before the drug leaves
			 the pharmacy.
(d) All medication
			 orders processed by a pharmacy student or a pharmacy technician being
			 electronically supervised shall be capable of being displayed on a computer
			 terminal at both the location of the electronically supervising pharmacist and
			 the medical care facility's pharmacy. The quality of the image viewed by the
			 pharmacist shall be sufficient for the pharmacist to be able to determine the
			 accuracy of the work of the pharmacy student or pharmacy technician.
(e) All patient demographic information shall
			 be viewable in real time at both the location of the electronically supervising
			 pharmacist and the medical care facility's pharmacy.
(f) Before a drug leaves the medical care
			 facility's pharmacy, all of the following requirements shall be met:
(1) The electronically supervising pharmacist
			 shall utilize the data, audio, and video links and review the patient profile,
			 the original scanned medication order, and the drug to be dispensed to ensure
			 accuracy.
(2) The supervising
			 pharmacist, pharmacy student, or pharmacy technician shall cause an electronic
			 or paper image of the medication order and the drug, as seen by the
			 electronically supervising pharmacist, to be captured and retained in the
			 electronic or paper records of the medical care facility's pharmacy for the
			 same time period as that required for the written medication order.
(3) The supervising pharmacist, pharmacy
			 student, or pharmacy technician shall cause a paper or electronic record that
			 includes the patient's name, the medication order number, the name of the
			 pharmacy student or pharmacy technician, and the name of the electronically
			 supervising pharmacist to be made.
(4) The pharmacist in charge of the medical
			 care facility's pharmacy shall ensure that controls exist to protect the
			 privacy and security of confidential records.
(5) The supervising pharmacist, pharmacy
			 student, or pharmacy technician shall cause a permanent digital record of all
			 duties electronically supervised and all data transmissions associated with the
			 electronic supervision to be made. Each record shall be maintained for at least
			 five years.