Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 535 - Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy › Chapter 15 - Pharmacies › Subchapter 5 - Hospital Pharmacies › Section 535:15-5-2 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words or terms, when used in this Subchapter,
				  shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Automated dispensing systems"
means a
				  mechanical system controlled by a computer that perform operations or
				  activities, relative to the storage, packaging, compounding, labeling,
				  dispensing, administration, or distribution of medications, and which collects,
				  controls, and maintains all transaction information.
"Auxiliary supportive personnel"
or
"auxiliary supportive person"
means all persons, other than
				  pharmacists, interns and techs, who are regularly paid employees of the
				  hospital pharmacy and who work or perform tasks in the hospital pharmacy that
				  do not require a permit or license (e.g. clerk, typist, delivery, or data entry
				  person, etc.).
"Certified medication order"
means a filled
				  prescription that has been reviewed and certified by a pharmacist.
"Director of Pharmacy"
means a pharmacist
				  licensed to engage in the practice of pharmacy in Oklahoma who is thoroughly
				  familiar with the specialized functions of a hospital pharmacy and directs the
				  activities of a hospital pharmacy.
"Drug room"
means a secured room where drug
				  inventories are maintained for use in a facility licensed and regulated by the
				  Oklahoma Health Department, and which may be inspected by the Board.
"Hospital employee"
means any individual
				  employed by a hospital whose compensation for services or labor actually
				  performed for a hospital is reflected on the payroll records of a hospital.
"Hospital"
or
"Hospital facility"
or means hospital as defined in 59 O.S. Section 353 et seq.
"Hospital pharmacy"
means the place or places in
				  which drugs, chemicals, medicines, prescriptions, or poisons are stored,
				  controlled and prepared for distribution and administration for the use and/or
				  benefit of patients in a hospital facility. Hospital pharmacy shall also mean
				  the place or places in which drugs, chemicals, medicines, prescriptions or
				  poisons are compounded and prepared for dispensing to the members of the
				  medical staff, hospital employees, and the members of their immediate families,
				  patients being discharged, and for other persons in emergency situations.
"Medical staff"
means a prescriber who has
				  privileges to practice in the hospital facility.
"Medication order"
means a prescription as
				  defined in Title 59 O.S. Section
				  353.1.
"Pharmacist"
means any person licensed to
				  practice pharmacy by the Oklahoma Board.
"Pharmacy technician"
,
"Tech"
,
"Technician"
or
"RxTech"
means a person who has been
				  issued a permit by the Board to assist the pharmacist and performs
				  nonjudgmental, technical, manipulative, nondiscretionary functions in the
				  prescription department under the pharmacist's immediate supervision.
"Remote medication order processing"
or
"RMOP"
means the processing of a medication order for a hospital
				  facility by a pharmacist located in a remote medication order processing
				  pharmacy site. Remote medication order processing does not include the
				  dispensing of a drug, but may include receiving, interpreting, evaluating,
				  clarifying and approval of medication orders. Additionally, remote medication
				  order processing may include order entry, other data entry, performing
				  prospective drug utilization review, interpreting clinical data, performing
				  therapeutic interventions, and providing drug information services, and
				  authorizing release of the medication for administration.
"Remote site"
means a site located within the
				  continental United States (US) or District of Columbia (DC) that is
				  electronically linked to the hospital via a computer and/or other electronic
				  communications system as defined in the operations, policies and procedures
				  manual of a hospital pharmacy for the purposes of remote medication order
				  processing (RMOP) of a remote medication order processing pharmacy.
"Supportive personnel"
means supportive
				  personnel as defined in 59 O.S Section 353.1 et seq.
Amended at 11 Ok Reg
				  545, eff 11-3-93 (emergency); Amended at 11 Ok Reg 3431, eff 6-27-94; Amended
				  at 18 Ok Reg 2738, eff 7-1-01; Amended at 20 Ok Reg 2982, eff 9-2-03
				  (emergency); Amended at 20 Ok Reg 2479, eff 1-1-04; Amended at 21 Ok Reg 2452,
				  eff 7-1-04; Amended at 27 Ok Reg 2256, eff
				  7-11-10