Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 535 - Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy
Chapter 15 - Pharmacies
Subchapter 6 - Hospital Drug Room
Section 535:15-6-12 - Medication from other sources

(a) Drugs from outside sources.Whenever drugs or pharmaceutical services are obtained from outside of the hospital facility on a regular basis, arrangements shall be made to insure that such outside pharmacists provide their services in a manner that assures the safety of the patients and properly serves the need of the hospital drug room. Such arrangements shall be made in writing and shall at a minimum specify that:

(b) Emergency sources of medications.Procedures shall be made, in writing, for the hospital facility to obtain emergency medications from a neighboring facility, retail pharmacy, or other source of drugs. (Unit dose packaging is recommended.)

(c) Medications from home.Whenever patients bring drugs into a hospital facility, such drugs shall not be administered unless they can be precisely identified and the prescriber has specifically indicated on the patient chart that the patient is to receive their own medications.