Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS
Part LIII - Pharmacists
Chapter 5 - Pharmacists
Subchapter B - Professional Practice Procedures
Section LIII-525 - Cognitive Services
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code LIII-525
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. Definitions. As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this Section.
Cognitive Services-those acts and operations related to a patient's drug therapy that are judgmental in nature, based on knowledge, and derived from empirical factual information. Such services may include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:
a. drug regimen review, drug use evaluation
and drug information;
b. provision
of advice and counsel on drugs, the selection and use thereof to the facility,
the patients therein, the health care providers of the facility regarding the
appropriateness, use, storage, handling, administration, and disposal of drugs
within the facility;
c.
participation in the development of policies and procedures for drug therapy
within the institution, including storage, handling, administration, and
disposing of drugs and devices;
d.
assuring the compliance with all applicable laws, rules, and
regulations;
e. provision of
educational and drug information sources for the education and training of the
facility health care professionals;
f. accepting responsibility for the
implementation and performance of review of quality-related or sentinel events.
B. Practice
1. A pharmacist who provides cognitive
services to Louisiana residents shall be licensed by the board.
2. Cognitive services provided from outside a
permitted pharmacy may not include the physical dispensing of medication to
patients.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:1182.
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