Contents - Volume 5, No. 3

Pharmacy Review: Patient Counseling Requirements

Pharmacists are required by both federal and state regulations to maintain patient medication profiles, perform a prospective drug review and offer to counsel patients or their caregivers about their medications. This article reviews the specific requirements set down by the NYS Commission of Education as well a review of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA 1990).

Continuing Education: Controlled Substances

This is the third in a series of six self-study continuing education articles that will appear in Pharmacy Law in 1998. The information that is required on controlled substance oral orders as well as the requirements for follow up prescriptions is included in the article. Regulations concerning the storage and disposal of controlled substances are addressed.

Mailbag

• When a registered physician assistant writes a prescription, should his/her name be on the RX label or should the M.D.'s name be used?
• Can a nurse in an institution act as a prescriber's agent and call in an oral order for a patient being discharged, or must the nurse be an employee of the prescriber?
• Where is it stated in the NYS rules and regulations that a nurse cannot borrow medications from another patient?
• Who can receive an oral prescription order in a pharmacy?
• Who can sign DEA form 222 to order Schedule II controlled substance items?
• Does a change in signature for the DEA form 222 require action by the board of directors of the hospital or by the CEO of the institution?