1. A Canadian
pharmacy licensed to provide mail order service pursuant to
NRS
639.2328 shall:
(a) Maintain a toll-free telephone number and
an electronic mail address at which a patient may contact and communicate with
a pharmacist employed by the pharmacy;
(b) Ensure that a pharmacist employed by the
pharmacy contacts a patient's prescribing practitioner in the United States
regarding a prescription for the patient:
(1)
If the prescription was electronically transmitted to the pharmacy in any
manner other than directly from the office of the prescribing practitioner in
the United States, to verify the authenticity and contents of the prescription;
and
(2) Before making any change to
the prescription that deviates from the prescription as written by the
prescribing practitioner in the United States;
(c) Ensure that, before a prescription from a
prescribing practitioner in the United States is transmitted to a prescribing
practitioner in Canada for approval, a pharmacist employed by the pharmacy:
(1) Personally enters the data regarding the
prescription into the pharmacy's computer system; or
(2) Verifies that the data regarding the
prescription was entered correctly into the pharmacy's computer system by
another employee of the pharmacy; and
(d) Ensure that the pharmacists employed by
the pharmacy make and maintain a record, either on paper or in the pharmacy's
computer system, that readily identifies the pharmacist who, with respect to a
prescription:
(1) Entered or verified the data
regarding the prescription pursuant to paragraph (c); and
(2) Filled the prescription or verified the
correctness of the prescription, if the prescription was filled by an employee
other than a pharmacist.
The records required pursuant to this paragraph must be
maintained by the pharmacy for at least 2 years and be made available, upon
request, for inspection by the staff of the Board.
2. A Canadian pharmacy licensed to
provide mail order service pursuant to
NRS
639.2328 shall not direct or otherwise allow
a patient to have his or her prescription dispensed by or to otherwise use the
services of a pharmacy that is not licensed by the Board.
3. If a Canadian pharmacy licensed to provide
mail order service pursuant to
NRS
639.2328 does not have in stock a drug with
which to dispense a patient's prescription and is unable to transfer the
prescription to another pharmacy licensed pursuant to
NRS
639.2328 that is able to dispense the
prescription, the Canadian pharmacy shall:
(a) Ensure that a pharmacist employed by the
pharmacy contacts the patient's prescribing practitioner in the United States
to obtain authorization to change the prescription to a drug that the pharmacy
has in stock; or
(b) Within
sufficient time to ensure that the drug therapy of the patient will not be
interrupted or disturbed, contact the patient to inform him or her that the
pharmacy cannot dispense the prescription.
Added to NAC by Bd. of
Pharmacy by R040-06, eff. 5-4-2006
