§ 17-92-604. Regulatory authority

AR Code § 17-92-604 (2018) (N/A)
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(a) The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy shall adopt, promulgate, and enforce such rules, regulations, and standards as may be necessary to the regulation of the operation of a hospital pharmacy and for the accomplishment of all other purposes of this subchapter.

(b)

(1) The Advisory Committee for Hospital Pharmacies shall advise with the board concerning the rules, regulations, and standards to be promulgated by the board under this subchapter. No rule, regulation, or standard shall be promulgated by the board until it has consulted with the committee.

(2) The rules, regulations, and standards shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following specific matters:

(A) The number of licensed pharmacists and other hospital pharmacy technicians and the scope of duties to be performed by the hospital pharmacy technicians in the inpatient medication distribution system, in keeping with the size and scope of the services of the hospital and its hospital pharmacy and the hospital pharmacy's safe, efficient, and economical operation; and

(B) The equipment and supplies necessary to the hospital pharmacy's safe, efficient, and economical operation.

(c) After consultation with the committee, from time to time, the board may modify, amend, or rescind the rules, regulations, and standards, provided the modification, amendment, or rescission does not in any manner defeat the purposes of this subchapter.