Contents - Volume 5, No. 5

Licensure in Pharmacy

The NYS Education Department has recently changed requirements affecting the professional education of pharmacists. Courses and curriculum is discussed along with examination requirements.

Institutional Pharmacies:Part II / ACPE continuing education article

The fifth in a series of continuing education articles for volume #5, this article stresses the recordkeeping, storage and disposal of medications in institutions. Hospital and nursing home standards are discussed.

Hospice Patients

Preliminary regulations concerning the elimination of triplicate prescriptions are addressed along with electronic transfer of data.

Controlled Substance Update

Regulations concerning the dispensing of medications to hospice patients which address filling and filing of specific types of prescriptions.

Mailbag

• Must NYS-licensed physicians use on ONYSRx form to prescribe Schedule II drugs or Benzodiazepines for a patient who will be having the prescription filled by an out-of-state pharmacist?
• Can a hospital pharmacy fill prescriptions for employees without a retail license?