Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 535 - Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy
Chapter 15 - Pharmacies
Subchapter 6 - Hospital Drug Room
Section 535:15-6-2 - Definitions
The following words or terms, when used in this Subchapter, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Adverse Drug Event" or "ADE" means an injury from a medicine or lack of an intended medicine.
"Contract employee" means any person who performs services or labor for a hospital, and whose compensation may or may not be reflected on the payroll records of a hospital. Examples of pharmacy contract employees are consultant D.Ph., relief D.Ph. and/or volunteer D.Ph.
"Drug room" or "Hospital drug room" means a secured room where drug inventories are maintained for use in a hospital, with less than 100 licensed beds including bassinets, licensed and regulated by the Oklahoma Health Department and by the Oklahoma Board.
"Drug room supervisor" means an Oklahoma registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, or licensed pharmacist (D.Ph.) as described in OAC 310:667-21-2 (c).
"Pharmacist-in-Charge" or "PIC" means an Oklahoma licensed pharmacist director or consultant of the hospital drug room, either employed or a contract employee.
"Remote medication order processing" or "RMOP" means the processing of a medication order for a hospital facility by a pharmacist employed by 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 or District of Columbia that is electronically linked to the hospital site via a computer for the purposes of remote medication order processing to a remote medication order processing pharmacy.
Added at 20 Ok Reg 2479, eff 1-1-04; Amended at 27 Ok Reg 2256, eff 7-11-10
