CHAPTER 639 - PHARMACISTS AND PHARMACY

NAC 639.69537 Customized orthotic or prosthetic devices: Practitioner’s order required. (NRS 639.070) An order from a practitioner is required in order to obtain a customized orthotic or prosthetic device from a medical products provider. (Added to NAC by Bd. of Pharmacy by R033-…

NAC 639.6954 Medical gases and associated equipment or respiratory equipment. (NRS 639.070) 1. A medical products provider that sells, leases or otherwise provides medical gases and associated equipment, or respiratory equipment shall: (a) Comply with all applicable federal, stat…

NAC 639.69543 Insulin pumps. (NRS 639.070) A medical products provider that sells, leases or otherwise provides an insulin pump to a consumer shall provide training to the consumer or the consumer’s family, caregiver or agent in the proper use and maintenance of the pump and the …

NAC 639.69545 Pressurized stockings. (NRS 639.070) 1. A pressurized stocking may not be sold, leased or otherwise provided to a consumer without an order from a practitioner if: (a) The United States Food and Drug Administration requires the pressurized stocking to be sold only u…

NAC 639.6955 Life-sustaining equipment. (NRS 639.070) A medical products provider who sells, leases or otherwise provides life-sustaining equipment shall: 1. Maintain a sufficient number of employees who are: (a) Trained to service and repair the life-sustaining equipment provide…

NAC 639.6956 Parenteral and enteral services and equipment. (NRS 639.070) A medical products provider who sells, leases or otherwise provides parenteral and enteral services and equipment shall: 1. Provide a consumer with an orientation and a written checklist regarding: (a) Inst…

NAC 639.6957 Duties of wholesalers; repair and maintenance of medical products; hours of operation; consumer complaints. (NRS 639.070) 1. A medical products wholesaler shall: (a) Employ a facility administrator and other employees sufficient to operate, set up, repair, maintain a…

NAC 639.69573 Wholesaler who employs person to sell or market device or appliance: Annual submission of certain information to Board; review and contents of marketing code of conduct. (NRS 639.070, 639.570) 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, on or before June 1 of e…

NAC 639.69575 Submission of certain information regarding sales and marketing staff: Submission of form after initial submittal; method of submission. (NRS 639.070, 639.570) 1. If a medical products wholesaler has submitted to the Board the information required pursuant to NAC 63…

NAC 639.69577 Submission of certain information regarding sales and marketing staff: Incomplete, improperly completed or noncompliant submittal; correction of deficiencies. (NRS 639.070, 639.570) 1. The Board will refuse a submittal of information from a medical products wholesal…

NAC 639.6958 Summary suspension of license. (NRS 639.070) 1. The Executive Secretary may summarily suspend the license of a medical products provider or medical products wholesaler upon receiving evidence sufficient to cause the Executive Secretary to reasonably believe that a me…

NAC 639.700 Performance of certain acts by pharmacists and pharmaceutical interns only. (NRS 639.070) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 of NAC 639.245, the following acts may be performed only by a registered pharmacist, or by a registered pharmaceutical intern acting …

NAC 639.701 Acts not required to be performed by pharmaceutical professionals. (NRS 639.070) The following acts are not required to be performed by a pharmacist, intern pharmacist, pharmaceutical technician or pharmaceutical technician in training: 1. Entering information into th…

NAC 639.702 Responsibility for acts and omissions of personnel who are not pharmacists. (NRS 639.070) The owner of a pharmacy, the managing pharmacist of the pharmacy and the registered pharmacist on duty at the pharmacy are responsible for the acts and omissions of pharmaceutica…

NAC 639.704 Check of license or certification required before employment by pharmacy or wholesaler. (NRS 639.070) 1. Before employing a pharmacist, intern pharmacist, pharmaceutical technician or pharmaceutical technician in training, a pharmacy or wholesaler licensed by the Boar…

NAC 639.706 Marking of prescriptions with serial numbers; maintenance of files of prescriptions. (NRS 639.070, 639.0745, 639.236) 1. A pharmacist who receives a prescription to fill, including a prescription that is written, transcribed from an oral order or transferred to the ph…

NAC 639.707 Counseling of patients: Duties of pharmacist, intern pharmacist or dispensing practitioner; record of medication. (NRS 639.070, 639.0727, 639.266) 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a pharmacist, an intern pharmacist under the supervision of a pharmacist…

NAC 639.708 Counseling of patients: Duties of pharmacy or dispensing practitioner. (NRS 639.070, 639.0727, 639.266) To facilitate counseling regarding a prescription, a pharmacy or dispensing practitioner shall: 1. Maintain a record of medication for each patient to whom a prescr…

NAC 639.709 Persons to whom pharmacy may furnish certain restricted products. (NRS 639.070, 639.595) 1. A pharmacy may furnish drugs, controlled substances, poisons, chemicals, devices or appliances restricted by federal law to sale by or on the order of a physician only to: (a) …

NAC 639.7102 Use of computer system for issuance and transmission of prescription. (NRS 639.070, 639.0745) 1. A practitioner may: (a) Issue a prescription using a computer system approved by the Board; and (b) Transmit the prescription using that computer system to a pharmacy spe…

NAC 639.7105 Electronic transmission of prescription. (NRS 639.070, 639.0745, 639.23535) Except as otherwise provided in NAC 639.648 and 639.711: 1. A prescription for a dangerous drug may be transmitted to a pharmacy electronically by a practitioner or, if the prescription is fo…

NAC 639.711 Transmission of prescription by facsimile machine. (NRS 639.070, 639.0745) 1. A prescription for a controlled substance listed in schedule II must not be transmitted by a practitioner or the designated agent of the practitioner by a facsimile machine to a pharmacy unl…

NAC 639.712 Transcribing prescription transmitted by oral order. (NRS 639.070, 639.0745) 1. A pharmacist who transcribes a prescription transmitted by an oral order of a practitioner or the practitioner’s agent shall sign or initial the prescription and specify on the prescriptio…

NAC 639.7125 Use of fulfillment pharmacy by dispensing pharmacy. (NRS 639.070, 639.0745) 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a prescription may be filled or refilled by a fulfillment pharmacy for a dispensing pharmacy if: (a) The fulfillment pharmacy enters the data …

NAC 639.713 Transfer of information between pharmacies: Conditions; prohibitions. (NRS 639.070, 639.0745) 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, a transfer of information between pharmacies relating to a prescription for a dangerous drug or controlled substance for the …

NAC 639.714 Transfer of information between pharmacies: Procedure. (NRS 639.070, 639.0745) 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, a pharmacist who transfers the information relating to a prescription to another pharmacy pursuant to NAC 639.713 shall: (a) Write the word …

NAC 639.7145 Transfer of information between pharmacies: Requirements for transfer by facsimile machine. (NRS 639.070, 639.0745) 1. Information relating to a prescription may be transferred from a pharmacy to another pharmacy by a facsimile machine pursuant to NAC 639.713 if: (a)…

NAC 639.715 Automated drug dispensing system or other mechanical device: Restrictions on use. (NRS 639.070, 639.0727, 639.2655) No drug, controlled substance, medicine, chemical or poison, as those terms are defined in chapters 453, 454 and 639 of NRS, may be sold or offered for …

NAC 639.718 Automated drug dispensing system used by pharmacy: Licensure required for system; use to dispense prescription drugs to patients. (NRS 639.070, 639.2655) 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a pharmacy may use an automated drug dispensing system to dispens…

NAC 639.719 Automated drug dispensing system used by reproductive healthcare center: Licensure required for system; use to dispense prescription drugs to patients. (NRS 639.070, 639.0727) 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, one or more dispensing practitioners practi…

NAC 639.720 Mechanical device other than automated drug dispensing system: Licensure and use to furnish drugs and medicines for administration to registered patients in medical facility and to patients receiving treatment in emergency room of hospital. (NRS 639.070, 639.0727, 639…

NAC 639.725 Use of mechanical counting device for dispensing medication to be taken orally. (NRS 639.070, 639.2655, 639.2801) 1. A mechanical counting device that is used by a pharmacy for dispensing medication to be taken orally must use one of the following methods to identify …

NAC 639.730 Inspection of damaged pharmaceuticals. (NRS 639.070) After a fire or other catastrophe in which pharmaceutical preparations, devices or appliances are damaged, the owner, operator or manager of the pharmacy shall not dispose of the damaged merchandise to any other per…

NAC 639.740 Container for dispensing prescribed medicine. (NRS 639.070) Except for a hospital pharmacy for inpatients or in a facility for skilled nursing or a facility for extended care, all prescribed medicine must be dispensed in a container which is designed to prevent a chil…

NAC 639.742 Dispensing of controlled substances or dangerous drugs for human consumption: Application by practitioner for certificate of registration at each site; application by facility required under certain circumstances; duties of dispensing practitioner, facility and federa…

NAC 639.7421 Dispensing of controlled substances: Registered practitioner practicing in hospital or independent center for emergency medical care exempt from requirement to obtain certificate of registration to dispense at site. (NRS 453.221, 639.070) 1. A practitioner who is pra…

NAC 639.7422 Dispensing of dangerous drugs: Application by dispensing practitioner to transport and dispense to patients of federally-qualified health center from federally-qualified health center vehicle; duties of dispensing practitioner; approval of vehicle not transferable. (…

NAC 639.74225 Dispensing of dangerous drugs by registered nurse through public health program: Application by registered nurse and program; certificate of registration of registered nurse; authority; duties; prohibitions. (NRS 639.070, 639.0727, 639.074) 1. A registered nurse who…

NAC 639.7423 Dispensing of controlled substances or dangerous drugs not for human consumption: Application by veterinarian for certificate of registration; duties of veterinarian and veterinary facility; maintenance of records; exemption from certain regulations. (NRS 639.070) 1.…

NAC 639.7424 Dispensing technician in training: Application and fee for registration; grounds for denial of application; issuance and expiration of registration; participation in training. (NRS 639.070, 639.0727) 1. An applicant for registration as a dispensing technician in trai…

NAC 639.7425 Dispensing technician: Application and fee for certificate of registration; grounds for denial of application; issuance and expiration of certificate of registration; in-service training required for renewal of registration. (NRS 639.070, 639.0727) 1. Except as other…

NAC 639.743 Restrictions on access to drugs by dispensing technician in training or dispensing technician; dispensing practitioner responsible for performance of functions by dispensing technician. (NRS 639.070, 639.0727) 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 639.23277 and NAC 6…

NAC 639.7435 Dispensing technician and dispensing technician in training: Registration transferable; notice of change of location of practice or supervisor. (NRS 639.070, 639.0727) 1. The registration of a dispensing technician or a dispensing technician in training is transferab…

NAC 639.744 Dispensing practitioner: Employment of multiple dispensing technicians. (NRS 639.070, 639.0727, 639.074) Except as otherwise provided in NAC 639.74225, a dispensing practitioner may employ more than one dispensing technician at a time, except that only one of those di…

NAC 639.7445 Dispensing practitioner: Disciplinary action for violation of NAC 639.742 to 639.7445, inclusive. (NRS 639.070, 639.0727) If a dispensing practitioner allows any person to perform any act in violation of NAC 639.742 to 639.7445, inclusive, the dispensing practitioner…

NAC 639.745 Duties of certain practitioners concerning dispensing of controlled substances and dangerous drugs; maintenance of records. (NRS 639.070, 639.0727) 1. Except as otherwise provided in NAC 639.7423, each practitioner who is registered with the Board to dispense controll…

NAC 639.746 Registration of oncology group practice or group of practitioners practicing at reproductive healthcare center to maintain single inventory of dangerous drugs; issuance and renewal of certificate of registration; authority and duties of registrant. (NRS 639.070) 1. An…