Pennsylvania Code › Title 49 - PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL STANDARDS › Part I - DEPARTMENT OF STATE › Subpart A - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL AFFAIRS › Chapter 27 - STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 27.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
ACPE
- The Accreditation Council for
						Pharmacy Education.
Act
- The Pharmacy Act (63 P. S.
						§§
												390-1-390-13).
Automated medication system
-
(i) A process that performs operations or
					 activities, other than compounding or administration, relative to the storage,
					 packaging, dispensing and distribution of medications, and which collects,
					 controls and maintains all transaction information.
(ii) The term does not include an automatic
					 counting device or unit-based dispensing cabinet.
Automatic counting device
- A device used
						in a pharmacy to automatically count medication for dispensing.
Board
- The State Board of
						Pharmacy.
Bureau
- The Bureau of Professional and
						Occupational Affairs of the Department.
CEU-Continuing education units
- The unit
						of measuring contact hours of continuing education provided by ACPE accredited
						providers. Ten contact hours are equivalent to 1.0 CEU.
Central fill pharmacy
- A pharmacy
						engaging in centralized prescription processing by filling and refilling
						prescriptions, which includes the preparation and packaging of the medication.
						A central fill pharmacy may also be the originating or delivering
						pharmacy.
Central processing center
- A pharmacy
						operated under the direction of a pharmacist that processes information related
						to the practice of pharmacy and that engages solely in centralized prescription
						processing but from which drugs are not dispensed.
Centralized prescription processing
- The
						processing, under the direction of a pharmacist, of a request to fill or refill
						a prescription, to perform functions such as refill authorizations,
						interventions or other matters related to the practice of pharmacy for
						subsequent delivery to the delivering pharmacy.
Commissioner
- The Commissioner of
						Professional and Occupational Affairs in the Department.
Contact hours
- Continuing education
						units of measure equivalent to 50 to 60 minutes of participation in an approved
						organized learning experience, including home study with approved educational
						materials.
Continuing education
- Professional
						education obtained to maintain, improve or expand current skills or knowledge,
						or to develop new skills or knowledge.
DEA
- The Federal Drug Enforcement
						Administration.
Delivering pharmacy
- The pharmacy that
						receives the processed prescription or the filled or refilled prescription for
						delivering to the patient or the patient's authorized representative. A
						delivering pharmacy may also be an originating or central fill pharmacy.
Department
- The Department of State of
						the Commonwealth.
Drug order
-
(i) An oral or written order issued by a
					 medical practitioner which is either written on or entered by computer into the
					 medical record of a patient in an institution for the dispensing of a drug or
					 device for administration to the patient.
(ii) The term does not include an order for a
					 drug for a patient in an institution which the patient will self-administer
					 which will be considered a prescription.
FDA
-The United States Food and Drug
						Administration, a division of the United States Department of Health and Human
						Services.
FDLE
- Federal Drug Law
						Examination.
Institution
- A health care facility as
						defined in section 103 of the Health Care Facilities Act (35 P. S. §
												448.103) which offers care and medical
						treatment to patients who require food, board and overnight sleeping
						facilities.
Licensed person
- A person holding a
						license issued by the Board.
Long-term care facility
- A nursing home,
						retirement care, mental care or other institution that provides extended health
						care to resident patients.
MJPE
- Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence
						Examination.
Management of drug therapy
-
(i) Any of the following processes performed
					 under a written protocol as set forth in section 9.1 of the act (63 P. S. §
												390-9.1) or under a collaborative agreement
					 as set forth in section 9.3 of the act (63 P. S. §
												390-9.3):
(A) Adjusting a drug regimen.
(B) Adjusting drug strength, frequency of
					 administration or route.
(C)
					 Administration of drugs.
(D)
					 Ordering laboratory tests and ordering and performing other diagnostic tests
					 necessary in the management of drug therapy.
(E) Monitoring the patient's vital
					 signs.
(F) Providing education and
					 training to the patient that is related to the management of the drug
					 therapy.