Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 535 - Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy
Chapter 15 - Pharmacies
Subchapter 5 - Hospital Pharmacies
Section 535:15-5-2 - Definitions
The following words or terms, when used in this Subchapter, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Automated dispensing systems" means a mechanical system controlled by a computer that perform operations or activities, relative to the storage, packaging, compounding, labeling, dispensing, administration, or distribution of medications, and which collects, controls, and maintains all transaction information.
"Auxiliary supportive personnel" or "auxiliary supportive person" means all persons, other than pharmacists, interns and techs, who are regularly paid employees of the hospital pharmacy and who work or perform tasks in the hospital pharmacy that do not require a permit or license (e.g. clerk, typist, delivery, or data entry person, etc.).
"Certified medication order" means a filled prescription that has been reviewed and certified by a pharmacist.
"Director of Pharmacy" means a pharmacist licensed to engage in the practice of pharmacy in Oklahoma who is thoroughly familiar with the specialized functions of a hospital pharmacy and directs the activities of a hospital pharmacy.
"Drug room" means a secured room where drug inventories are maintained for use in a facility licensed and regulated by the Oklahoma Health Department, and which may be inspected by the Board.
"Hospital employee" means any individual employed by a hospital whose compensation for services or labor actually performed for a hospital is reflected on the payroll records of a hospital.
"Hospital" or "Hospital facility" or means hospital as defined in 59 O.S. Section 353 et seq.
"Hospital pharmacy" means the place or places in which drugs, chemicals, medicines, prescriptions, or poisons are stored, controlled and prepared for distribution and administration for the use and/or benefit of patients in a hospital facility. Hospital pharmacy shall also mean the place or places in which drugs, chemicals, medicines, prescriptions or poisons are compounded and prepared for dispensing to the members of the medical staff, hospital employees, and the members of their immediate families, patients being discharged, and for other persons in emergency situations.
"Medical staff" means a prescriber who has privileges to practice in the hospital facility.
"Medication order" means a prescription as defined in Title 59 O.S. Section 353.1.
"Pharmacist" means any person licensed to practice pharmacy by the Oklahoma Board.
"Pharmacy technician", "Tech" , "Technician" or "RxTech" means a person who has been issued a permit by the Board to assist the pharmacist and performs nonjudgmental, technical, manipulative, nondiscretionary functions in the prescription department under the pharmacist's immediate supervision.
"Remote medication order processing" or "RMOP" means the processing of a medication order for a hospital facility by a pharmacist located in a remote medication order processing pharmacy site. Remote medication order processing does not include the dispensing of a drug, but may include receiving, interpreting, evaluating, clarifying and approval of medication orders. Additionally, remote medication order processing may include order entry, other data entry, performing prospective drug utilization review, interpreting clinical data, performing therapeutic interventions, and providing drug information services, and authorizing release of the medication for administration.
"Remote site" means a site located within the continental United States (US) or District of Columbia (DC) that is electronically linked to the hospital via a computer and/or other electronic communications system as defined in the operations, policies and procedures manual of a hospital pharmacy for the purposes of remote medication order processing (RMOP) of a remote medication order processing pharmacy.
"Supportive personnel" means supportive personnel as defined in 59 O.S Section 353.1 et seq.
Amended at 11 Ok Reg 545, eff 11-3-93 (emergency); Amended at 11 Ok Reg 3431, eff 6-27-94; Amended at 18 Ok Reg 2738, eff 7-1-01; Amended at 20 Ok Reg 2982, eff 9-2-03 (emergency); Amended at 20 Ok Reg 2479, eff 1-1-04; Amended at 21 Ok Reg 2452, eff 7-1-04; Amended at 27 Ok Reg 2256, eff 7-11-10
