Title 54

NRS 639.004 “Chart order” defined. “Chart order” means an order entered on the chart of a patient in a hospital, recovery center, facility for intermediate care or facility for skilled nursing which is licensed as such by the Health Care Purchasing and Compliance Division of the …

NRS 639.005 “Chemical” defined. “Chemical” means all chemicals intended, designed and labeled for use in the cure, treatment, mitigation or prevention of disease in humans or other animals. (Added to NRS by 1967, 1651)

NRS 639.0051 “Collaborative drug therapy management” defined. “Collaborative drug therapy management” means initiating, monitoring, modifying or discontinuing a patient’s drug therapy by one or more pharmacists under the supervision of one or more practitioners in accordance with…

NRS 639.0052 “Collaborative practice agreement” defined. “Collaborative practice agreement” means an agreement that meets the requirements of NRS 639.2627 between one or more pharmacists and one or more practitioners which authorizes a pharmacist to engage in the collaborative pr…

NRS 639.00525 “Collaborative practice of pharmacy” defined. “Collaborative practice of pharmacy” means the performance of tests to address chronic diseases and public health issues, including, without limitation, outbreaks and occurrences of specific diseases and disorders, by on…

NRS 639.0053 “Compound” and “compounding” defined. “Compound” or “compounding” means to form or make up a composite product by combining two or more different ingredients. (Added to NRS by 1979, 1696)

NRS 639.006 “Conviction” defined. “Conviction” means a plea or verdict of guilty or guilty but mentally ill or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere to a charge of a felony, any offense involving moral turpitude or any violation of the provisions of this chapter or cha…

NRS 639.0061 “Course of treatment” defined. “Course of treatment” means all treatment of a patient for a particular disease or symptom of a disease, including, without limitation, a new treatment initiated by any practitioner, other than a veterinarian, for a disease or symptom f…

NRS 639.0065 “Dispense” defined. 1. “Dispense” means to deliver a controlled substance or dangerous drug to an ultimate user, patient or subject of research by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including the prescribing by a practitioner, administering, packaging…

NRS 639.007 “Drug” and “medicine” defined. “Drug” and “medicine” mean: 1. Articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, the official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them; 2. Articles an…

NRS 639.0071 “Drug sample” defined. “Drug sample” means a unit of a drug that is not to be sold and is used to promote the sale of the drug. (Added to NRS by 1991, 1155)

NRS 639.0073 “Fill” defined. “Fill” means the counting, measuring, compounding, pouring, packaging and labeling required to prepare a drug for either direct or indirect delivery to a patient. (Added to NRS by 1979, 1696)

NRS 639.0074 “Hospital” defined. “Hospital” means any facility which is licensed by the Department of Human Services as a hospital and which provides care and treatment for human illness or other abnormal physical or mental conditions on an inpatient basis, including any such fac…

NRS 639.008 “Hypodermics” defined. “Hypodermics” means any syringe, needle, instrument, device or implement intended or capable of being adapted for the purpose of administering drugs by subcutaneous, intramuscular or intravenous injection. (Added to NRS by 1967, 1651)

NRS 639.0082 “Initial prescription” defined. “Initial prescription” means a prescription originated for a new patient of a practitioner, other than a veterinarian, or a new prescription to begin a new course of treatment for an existing patient of a practitioner, other than a vet…

NRS 639.0085 “Institutional pharmacy” defined. “Institutional pharmacy” means a pharmacy or other storage place as defined by regulations adopted by the Board which is a part of or is operated in conjunction with a medical facility as that term is defined in NRS 449.0151. The ter…

NRS 639.00855 “Interchangeable biological product” defined. “Interchangeable biological product” means a biological product that the Food and Drug Administration has: 1. Licensed and determined meets the standards for interchangeability pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 262(k)(4); or 2. De…

NRS 639.0086 “Intern pharmacist” defined. “Intern pharmacist” means a person registered with and issued a certificate of registration by the Board as an intern pharmacist pursuant to NRS 639.137. (Added to NRS by 1993, 630; A 1999, 239)

NRS 639.00865 “Internet pharmacy” defined. 1. “Internet pharmacy” means a person located within or outside this State who knowingly: (a) Uses or attempts to use the Internet, in whole or in part, to communicate with or obtain information from another person; and (b) Uses or attem…

NRS 639.0087 “Managing pharmacist” defined. “Managing pharmacist” means a registered pharmacist who is responsible for the operation of a pharmacy. (Added to NRS by 1985, 875)

NRS 639.009 “Manufacturer” defined. “Manufacturer” means a person who: 1. Derives, produces, prepares, compounds, mixes, cultivates, grows or processes any drug or medicine; 2. Repackages any drug or medicine for the purposes of resale; or 3. Produces or makes any devices or appl…

NRS 639.0095 “Nuclear pharmacist” defined. “Nuclear pharmacist” means a pharmacist who: 1. Is licensed to practice in this State; and 2. Meets the requirements of training and experience concerning the handling of radioactive materials pursuant to the regulations adopted by the N…

NRS 639.0097 “Nuclear pharmacy” defined. “Nuclear pharmacy” means a pharmacy: 1. Where radiopharmaceuticals are stored, compounded or dispensed; and 2. Which is licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Huma…

NRS 639.0105 “Parenteral solutions” and “parenterals” defined. “Parenteral solutions” or “parenterals” means those drugs which are administered into the human body by injection under or through one or more layers of skin or mucous membrane. (Added to NRS by 1985, 867; A 1991, 115…

NRS 639.0113 “Pharmaceutical technician” defined. “Pharmaceutical technician” means a person who performs technical services in a pharmacy under the direct supervision of a pharmacist and is registered with the Board. (Added to NRS by 2003, 2278)

NRS 639.0115 “Pharmaceutical technician in training” defined. “Pharmaceutical technician in training” means a person who is: 1. Registered with the Board in order to obtain the training and experience required to be a pharmaceutical technician; or 2. Enrolled in a program of trai…

NRS 639.012 “Pharmacy” defined. 1. “Pharmacy” means every store or shop licensed by the Board where drugs, controlled substances, poisons, medicines or chemicals are stored or possessed, or dispensed or sold at retail, or displayed for sale at retail, or where prescriptions are c…

NRS 639.0123 “Pharmacy in a correctional institution” defined. “Pharmacy in a correctional institution” means a pharmacy or other storage place for medicines, controlled substances and dangerous drugs which is a part of or is operated in conjunction with a correctional institutio…

NRS 639.0124 “Practice of pharmacy” defined. 1. “Practice of pharmacy” includes, but is not limited to, the: (a) Performance or supervision of activities associated with manufacturing, compounding, labeling, dispensing and distributing of a drug, including the receipt, handling a…

NRS 639.0125 “Practitioner” defined. “Practitioner” means: 1. A physician, dentist, veterinarian or podiatric physician who holds a license to practice his or her profession in this State; 2. A hospital, pharmacy or other institution licensed, registered or otherwise permitted to…

NRS 639.013 “Prescription” defined. 1. “Prescription” means: (a) An order given individually for the person for whom prescribed, directly from the practitioner to a pharmacist or indirectly by means of an order signed by the practitioner or by an electronic transmission from the …

NRS 639.0143 “Radiopharmaceutical” defined. “Radiopharmaceutical” means any substance defined as a drug in 21 U.S.C. § 321(g)(1) which: 1. Exhibits spontaneous disintegration of unstable nuclei which emit nuclear particles or photons; or 2. Is intended to be made radioactive. Ê T…

NRS 639.0144 “Recovery center” defined. “Recovery center” means any public or private facility that provides only short-term care, not to exceed 72 hours, to a person recovering from surgery, which is licensed as such by the Health Care Purchasing and Compliance Division of the N…

NRS 639.0145 “Refill” defined. “Refill” means to fill again. (Added to NRS by 1979, 1696)

NRS 639.015 “Registered pharmacist” defined. “Registered pharmacist” means: 1. A person registered in this State as such on July 1, 1947; 2. A person registered in this State as such in compliance with the provisions of paragraph (c) of section 3 of chapter 195, Statutes of Nevad…

NRS 639.0151 “Remote site” defined. “Remote site” means: 1. A pharmacy staffed by a pharmaceutical technician and equipped to facilitate communicative access to a pharmacy and its registered pharmacists; or 2. An office of a dispensing practitioner that is staffed by a dispensing…

NRS 639.0153 “Satellite consultation site” defined. “Satellite consultation site” means a site that only dispenses filled prescriptions which are delivered to that site after the prescriptions are prepared: 1. At a pharmacy where a registered pharmacist provides consultation to p…

NRS 639.01531 “Self-administered hormonal contraceptive” defined. “Self-administered hormonal contraceptive” means a self-administered contraceptive that utilizes a hormone and is approved for use by the United States Food and Drug Administration to prevent pregnancy. The term in…

NRS 639.01535 “Telehealth” defined. “Telehealth” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 629.515. (Added to NRS by 2015, 627)

NRS 639.0154 “Telepharmacy” defined. “Telepharmacy” means: 1. A pharmacy; or 2. An office of a dispensing practitioner, Ê that is accessible by a remote site or a satellite consultation site electronically, telephonically or by fiber optics, including, without limitation, through…

NRS 639.0155 “Wholesale distribution” defined. “Wholesale distribution” means the distribution of drugs to persons other than consumers or patients, but does not include: 1. Sales within a company. 2. The purchase or other acquisition of a drug by a health care facility or a phar…

NRS 639.016 “Wholesaler” defined. “Wholesaler” means a wholesale distributor as defined by 21 C.F.R. § 205.3(g) who supplies or distributes drugs, medicines or chemicals or devices or appliances that are restricted by federal law to sale by or on the order of a physician to a per…

NRS 639.018 Inapplicability of chapter to certain veterinary biologic products and pharmaceutical technicians of Armed Forces or Federal Government in discharge of official duties. 1. The provisions of this chapter and any regulations adopted pursuant thereto do not apply to: (a)…

NRS 639.020 Creation; number and appointment of members. The State Board of Pharmacy, consisting of seven members appointed by the Governor, is hereby created. [Part 5:286:1913; A 1947, 667; 1943 NCL § 5044]—(NRS A 1965, 307; 1973, 811; 1977, 1256; 1989, 2036)

NRS 639.030 Qualification and terms of members; oath; vacancies; grounds for removal from office. 1. The Governor shall appoint: (a) Six members who are registered pharmacists in the State of Nevada, are actively engaged in the practice of pharmacy in the State of Nevada and have…