Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE
Division 2220 - State Board of Pharmacy
Chapter 2 - General Rules
Section 20 CSR 2220-2.700 - Pharmacy Technician Registration
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule defines the requirements for pharmacy technician registration.
(1) A pharmacy technician is defined as any person who assumes a supportive role under the direct supervision and responsibility of a pharmacist and who is utilized according to written standards of the employer or the pharmacist-in-charge to perform routine functions that do not require the use of professional judgement in connection with the receiving, preparing, compounding, distribution, or dispensing of medications.
(2) Registered technicians as well as applicants for registration as a technician are responsible for informing the board in the case of a changed residential address. Any mail or communications returned to the board office marked unknown, incorrect address, and the like will not be mailed a second time until the correct address is provided.
(3) Registered technicians as well as applicants for registration as a technician shall inform the executive director of the board of any change in their employment address. The notification of an employment change must be provided in writing to the board no later than fifteen (15) days following the effective date of the change.
(4) Any person whose name appears on the board of pharmacy employment disqualification list shall be barred from employment as a pharmacy technician except as provided in section (5) of this rule.
(5) Any person whose name appears on the disqualification list may be employed as a pharmacy technician subject to any restrictions or conditions ordered by the board. As an alternative to barring an individual from employment in a pharmacy, the board may consider restricted forms of employment or employment under special conditions for any person who has applied for or holds a registration as a pharmacy technician. Special conditions may include participation in the board's Well-Being Program, as provided in 20 CSR 2220-2.175. Any registered technician subject to restrictions or conditions who violates any portion of the restrictions or conditions may be further restricted in employment or have additional conditions placed on their registration. The board may also implement full disqualification on a registrant who has violated any restrictions or conditions.
(6) The letter of notice of intent to disqualify and the disqualification list shall be considered an open record of the board as well as any notice of appeal or litigation that pertains to the disqualification and/or conditional registration as a pharmacy technician.
*Original authority: 338.013, RSMo 1997, 2004, 2009; 338.140, RSMo 1939, amended 1981, 1989, 1997; and 338.380, RSMo 2007.