Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 216 - Department of health › Chapter 40 - Professional licensing and facility regulation › Subchapter 15 - Pharmacy › Part 1 - Pharmacists, Pharmacies, and Manufacturers, Wholesalers, and Distributors › Section 216-RICR-40-15-1.3 - Code of Professional Conduct for Pharmacists and Pharmacies

Current through June 14, 2024
A. A pharmacist-in-charge, registered
				  pharmacist, pharmacy, or anyone acting on behalf of a pharmacy or pharmacy
				  department shall follow the Code of Professional Conduct to include, but not be
				  limited to the following:
1. A
				  pharmacist-in-charge, registered pharmacist, pharmacy, or anyone acting on
				  behalf of a pharmacy or pharmacy department shall at all times conduct
				  professional activities in conformity with Federal, State and municipal laws,
				  ordinances and/or Regulations, including the Regulations of the
				  Board.
2. A pharmacist-in-charge,
				  registered pharmacist, pharmacy, or anyone acting on behalf of a pharmacy or
				  pharmacy department shall not dispense drugs, devices, or other substances in a
				  manner which is intended, either directly or indirectly, to circumvent the
				  law.
3. A pharmacist-in-charge,
				  registered pharmacist, pharmacy, or anyone acting on behalf of a pharmacy or
				  pharmacy department shall observe the standards of the current United States
				  Pharmacopoeia in addition to State laws and Regulations.
4. While on duty, a pharmacist-in-charge,
				  registered pharmacist, pharmacy, or anyone acting on behalf of a pharmacy or
				  pharmacy department shall be responsible for the proper preservation and
				  security of all drugs in the pharmacy or pharmacy department, including the
				  proper refrigeration and storage of said drugs.
5. A pharmacist-in-charge, registered
				  pharmacist, pharmacy, or anyone acting on behalf of a pharmacy or pharmacy
				  department shall not engage in any fraudulent or deceptive act.
6. A pharmacist-in-charge, registered
				  pharmacist, pharmacy, or anyone acting on behalf of a pharmacy or pharmacy
				  department shall not in any way aid or abet the unlawful practice of
				  pharmacy.
7. A
				  pharmacist-in-charge, registered pharmacist, pharmacy, or anyone acting on
				  behalf of a pharmacy or pharmacy department shall not knowingly dispense or
				  distribute expired, outdated or otherwise substandard drugs or devices or
				  counterfeit drugs or devices to any person or entity.
8. A pharmacist-in-charge, registered
				  pharmacist, pharmacy, or anyone acting on behalf of a pharmacy or pharmacy
				  department shall not knowingly dispense or distribute drugs or devices to any
				  person or entity who is not licensed or legally authorized to receive such
				  drugs or devices.
9. A
				  pharmacist-in-charge, registered pharmacist, pharmacy, or anyone acting on
				  behalf of a pharmacy or pharmacy department may dispense prescription drugs by
				  mail or common carrier in a manner consistent with Federal and State laws and
				  Regulations, including the Regulations of the Board. All pharmacists shall have
				  available sufficient information to contact the patient and the prescribing
				  practitioner.
10. A pharmacist,
				  pharmacy, pharmacy department, pharmaceutical organization or pharmacy
				  corporation shall not provide any practitioner with prescription blanks which
				  refer to any pharmacist, pharmacy or pharmacy department.
11. A pharmacist-in-charge, registered
				  pharmacist, pharmacy, or anyone acting on behalf of a pharmacy or pharmacy
				  department shall not purchase drug samples for the purpose of compounding,
				  dispensing, or in any way reselling these samples.
12. A pharmacist-in-charge, registered
				  pharmacist, pharmacy, or anyone acting on behalf of a pharmacy or pharmacy
				  department shall comply with the mandatory counseling provisions contained in
				  State and Federal laws.
13. A
				  pharmacist-in-charge, registered pharmacist, pharmacy, or anyone acting on
				  behalf of a pharmacy or pharmacy department shall maintain patient
				  confidentiality at all times. Confidential information shall include
				  information maintained by the pharmacist in the patient's records or
				  information which is communicated to the patient as part of patient counseling,
				  which is privileged and may be released only to the patient or to those
				  practitioners and other pharmacists where, in the pharmacist's professional
				  judgment, such release is necessary to protect the patient's health and well
				  being; and to such other persons or governmental agencies authorized by law to
				  receive such confidential information.
14. A pharmacist-in-charge, registered
				  pharmacist, pharmacy, or anyone acting on behalf of a pharmacy or pharmacy
				  department shall not obtain any remuneration by fraud, misrepresentation, or
				  deception, including, but not limited to, receiving remuneration for amending
				  or modifying, or attempting to amend or modify, a patient's pharmaceutical
				  services, absent a clear benefit to the patient.