Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS
Part LIII - Pharmacists
Chapter 9 - Pharmacy Technicians
Section LIII-907 - Scope of Practice
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code LIII-907
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. Pharmacy technician candidates and pharmacy technicians may assist the pharmacist by performing those duties and functions assigned by the pharmacist while under his direct and immediate supervision.
1. The ratio of pharmacy technician
candidates, certified pharmacy technicians, and pharmacy interns to pharmacists
on duty shall not exceed four to one in any variable at any given time, of
which the ratio of pharmacy technician candidates to pharmacists shall be no
more than two to one.
B. Pharmacy technician candidates shall not:
1.
receive verbal initial prescription orders;
2. give or receive verbal transfers of
prescription orders;
3. interpret
prescription orders (however, a technician candidate may translate prescription
orders);
4. compound high-risk
sterile preparations, as defined by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), or
its successor;
5. counsel
patients;
6. administer
medications.
C. Pharmacy technicians shall not:
1. release a verbal
prescription order for processing until it is reduced to written form and
initialed by the receiving technician and supervising pharmacist;
2. interpret prescription orders (however, a
technician may translate prescription orders);
3. counsel patients.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:1212.
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