West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 15 - Pharmacy › Title 15 - LEGISLATIVE RULE WEST VIRGINIA BOARD OF PHARMACY › Series 15-03 - Board of Pharmacy Rules for Continuing Education for Licensure of Pharmacists › Section 15-3-2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
2.1. "Accreditation
				Council for Pharmacy Education" ("ACPE") means the national accreditation
				organization for continuing pharmacy education.
2.2. "Chronic Pain" means pain that has
				persisted after reasonable medical efforts have been made to relieve the pain
				or cure its cause and that has continued, either continuously or episodically,
				for longer than three continuous months. For purposes of this rule, "chronic
				pain" does not include pain associated with a terminal condition or illness, or
				with a progressive disease that, in the normal course of progression, may
				reasonably be expected to result in a terminal condition or illness.
2.3. "Continuing Pharmacy Education" ("CPE")
				means planned and accredited learning experiences beyond a formal degree
				program designed to promote the continual development of knowledge, skills, and
				attitudes on the part of the pharmacist or pharmacy technician which promotes
				problem-solving and critical thinking and is applicable to the practice of
				pharmacy.
2.4. "Continuing Pharmacy
				Education Committee" ("CPE Committee") means that committee appointed by the
				board responsible for approval of the content of each CPE activity, which is
				not otherwise automatically approved by this rule for CPE credit, offered by a
				non-accredited ACPE provider of CPE.
2.5. "Continuing Pharmacy Education
				Coordinator" ("CPE Coordinator") means that individual or organization who may
				be retained by the board for the purpose of coordinating CPE activities and
				licensure renewal requirements.
2.6. "Continuing Pharmacy Education Hour"
				("CPE Hour") means one hour of participation in a board accredited continuing
				pharmacy education activity under responsible providership, capable direction
				and qualified instruction. For the purposes of this definition, an hour equals
				sixty minutes of participation and represents 1.0 continuing pharmacy education
				contact hour, but Continuing Pharmacy Education activities of less than one
				hour may be approved as Continuing Pharmacy Education activities in
				fifteen-minute increments worth one quarter contact hour per fifteen-minute
				period.
2.7. "Continuing Pharmacy
				Education Number" (Number) means either the ACPE number or board-issued CPE
				number assigned to identify each approved activity.
2.8. "Continuing Pharmacy Education Provider"
				(Provider) means an institution, organization, agency, corporation, company, or
				individual approved by the board for the purpose of direct provision of
				continuing pharmacy education activities.
2.9. "CPE Monitor" means the electronic CPE
				monitor created and maintained through the collaborative efforts of National
				Association of Boards of Pharmacy the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy
				Education (ACPE) to permit CPE providers, pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians
				to electronically keep track of CPE credits earned from CPE providers, by
				acting as a repository of this information maintained on licensees' behalf and
				reported by NABP to state boards of pharmacy which request verification of
				CPE.
2.10. "Reporting Period" means
				the two-year licensure period beginning on July 1 of a given year through June
				30 two years later which coincides with the licensee's renewal
				period.
2.11. "West Virginia
				Pharmacists Association" (Association) means a statewide professional
				organization whose members are current or former pharmacists duly licensed by
				the board.
2.12. "West Virginia
				Society of Health System Pharmacists" means a statewide professional
				organization representing the interests of current and former pharmacists duly
				licensed by the board who practice in hospitals, health maintenance
				organizations, long-term care facilities, home care, and other components of
				health care systems.