New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY › Chapter 39 - STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY › Subchapter 9 - PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES FOR HEALTH CARE FACILITIES › Section 13:39-9.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, as used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Drug administration" means a procedure in which a prescribed drug is given to a patient by an authorized person in accordance with all laws and rules governing such procedures.
"Formulary" means a continually revised compilation of pharmaceuticals available in the pharmacy for use in the facility developed by the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.
"Health care facility" means a facility or institution licensed by the Department of Health pursuant to N.J.S.A. 26:2H-1 et seq.
"Health care system" means one or more health care facilities which are owned or controlled by the same legal entity.
"Institutional pharmacy" means the area in a health care facility or a health care system licensed by the Board as a pharmacy that maintains an institutional permit. "Institutional pharmacy" includes any areas of the health care facility or the health care system where pharmaceuticals are stored, compounded or dispensed.
"Medication order" means a written request for medication originated by a practitioner and intended for patient use in the health care facility, and not for use of the institution's employees or their dependents or outpatients of the facility's clinics. A valid medication order contains the date ordered, the patient's name and location within the facility, the name, dose, route, and frequency of administration of the medication, and any additional instructions. Computer-generated medication orders within an institutional setting, utilizing the practitioner's electronic signature or password will meet legal requirements for a practitioner's original handwritten signature on medication orders. Computerized signatures or passwords will be accepted provided that the facility has adequate safeguards which assure the confidentiality of each electronic signature or password and which prohibit their improper or unauthorized use.
"Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee" means the active standing committee of the institution or health care facility which is the organizational line of communication and liaison between the medical service and pharmacists and which acts to review and promote rational drug therapy and utilization in the facility.
"Unit dose packaging" means a single unit use non-parenteral medication provided in packaging which contains the following information for each unit in the package:
1. Product name;
2. Strength and/or quantity and/or volume, where appropriate;
3. Lot number;
4. The phrase "use by" followed by the product's use by date.
i. For purposes of this paragraph, "use by date" means the earlier of one year from the date of packaging or the expiration date on the manufacturer's container;
5. Manufacturer or repackager; and
6. If there is more than one product in the single unit, a physical description of each medication in the single unit.