Board Rule .1414(c)(1) requires that “all drugs dispensed from within a health care facility pharmacy are labeled and identified up to the point of administration.” Rule .1419(c) authorizes the removal of “drugs from the dispensing devices . . . in the quantity of doses needed to satisfy immediate patient needs.” In this scenario, the label must identify the…
Yes. Federal Drug Enforcement Administration rules – 21 CFR § 1301.17(c) and § 1301.27 – allow, where state law permits (and North Carolina law does permit), a retail pharmacy to obtain a DEA registration for, and to install, an automated dispensing system at a long term care facility. These systems allow dispensing of single dosage controlled-substance units and can…
If controlled substances are placed an auxiliary medication inventory, that storage must comply with 10A NCAC 26E.0408, which allows skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities, and combination facilities licensed by the Department of Health and Human Services to have a controlled substance emergency kit. 21 NCAC 46.1414(d)(7) This requirement applies equally when an automated medication system is being…
Yes. As noted above, Board Rule .1419 sets forth the policies and procedures that a health care facility must create to govern the device’s operation. Paragraph(e) specifically provides that that an automated dispensing device “that is used solely as an Auxiliary Medication Inventory as defined in 21 NCAC 46.1414(d) shall be governed by the requirements of that Rule.” In other words,…
Auxiliary Medication Inventory. An “auxiliary medication inventory” is a supply of medications “which may include patient care unit medication inventories, ancillary drug cabinet inventories, and emergency kits” that “may be required to meet the immediate therapeutic needs of patients, but that are not reasonably available from the health care facility pharmacy in sufficient time to…
Pharmaceutics is concerned with the quantitative aspects of drug delivery, and involves the design, development, and evaluation of drugs in combination with an appropriate dosage form. Pharmacology is the study of how drugs interact with biological targets in order to exert their effects on living systems.
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