Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 535 - Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy
Chapter 15 - Pharmacies
Subchapter 13 - Pharmacy Supportive Personnel
Section 535:15-13-3 - Definitions

The following words or terms, when used in this Subchapter, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Auxiliary supportive personnel" or"auxiliary supportive person" means all persons, other than pharmacists, interns and techs, who are regularly paid employees of the pharmacy and who work or perform tasks in the pharmacy that do not require a permit or license (e.g. clerk, typist, delivery or data entry person, etc.).

"Certify a prescription" means the confirmation by the supervising pharmacist of the accuracy and completeness of the acts, tasks or functions undertaken by supportive personnel to assist the pharmacist in the practice of pharmacy. This process shall be completed before the prescription is given to the patient.

"Pharmacy technician", "Technician", or "Rx Tech" means a person who has been issued a permit by the Board to assist the pharmacist and perform nonjudgmental, technical, manipulative, non-discretionary functions in the prescription department under the pharmacist's immediate and direct supervision.

"Significant compounding" means compounding activity which equals at least ten percent (10%) of the prescription volume of the pharmacy.

"Supportive personnel" means supportive personnel as defined in 59 O.S. Section 353.1 et seq.

Added at 11 Ok Reg 3431, eff 6-27-94; Amended at 17 Ok Reg 2626, eff 7-1-00; Amended at 20 Ok Reg 2982, eff 9-2-03 (emergency); Amended at 21 Ok Reg 2452, eff 7-1-04