Nebraska Statutes 71-476. Drugs and devices; labeling requirements
(1) In an assisted-living facility, a nursing facility, or a skilled nursing facility, all drugs and devices shall be labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional standards of care, including the appropriate accessory and cautionary instructions and the expiration date when applicable.
Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 71-476
- Care: means the exercise of concern or responsibility for the comfort, welfare, and habilitation of persons, including a minimum amount of supervision and assistance with or the provision of personal care, activities of daily living, health maintenance activities, or other supportive services. See Nebraska Statutes 71-407
- MAR: means a medication administration record kept by an assisted-living facility, a nursing facility, or a skilled nursing facility. See Nebraska Statutes 71-422.02
- Nursing facility: means a facility where medical care, nursing care, rehabilitation, or related services and associated treatment are provided for a period of more than twenty-four consecutive hours to persons residing at such facility who are ill, injured, or disabled. See Nebraska Statutes 71-424
- Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
- Skilled nursing facility: means a facility where medical care, skilled nursing care, rehabilitation, or related services and associated treatment are provided for a period of more than twenty-four consecutive hours to persons residing at such facility who are ill, injured, or disabled. See Nebraska Statutes 71-429
(2) If the dosage or directions for a specific drug or device to be used in an assisted-living facility, a nursing facility, or a skilled nursing facility are changed by a health care practitioner authorized to prescribe controlled substances and credentialed under the Uniform Credentialing Act, a pharmacist shall apply a new label as soon as practicable with the correct dosage or directions to the drug or device package or reissue the drug or device with the correct label. To protect the safety of the resident of such a facility receiving the drug or device until the drug or device can be correctly labeled, the drug or device package shall be temporarily flagged with a sticker indicating dose change, drug change, or MAR, to alert nursing staff or an unlicensed person responsible for providing the drug or device to a resident that the dosage or directions have changed and the drug or device is to be provided according to the corrected information contained in the resident’s MAR, if one exists.