Connecticut General Statutes 20-599 – Continuing education: Definitions
As used in this section and section 20-600:
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 20-599
- Commission: means the Commission of Pharmacy appointed under the provisions of section 20-572. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-571
- Pharmacist: means an individual who is licensed to practice pharmacy under the provisions of section 20-590, 20-591, 20-592 or 20-593, and who is thereby recognized as a health care provider by the state of Connecticut. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-571
- Pharmacy: means a place of business where drugs and devices may be sold at retail and for which a pharmacy license has been issued to an applicant under the provisions of section 20-594. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-571
- to practice pharmacy: means the sum total of knowledge, understanding, judgments, procedures, securities, controls and ethics used by a pharmacist to assure optimal safety and accuracy in the distributing, dispensing and use of drugs and devices. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-571
(1) “Accredited continuing professional education” means any education of pharmacists which is designed to maintain professional competence in the practice of pharmacy and which is provided by an organization, institution or agency approved by the commission. Such education may include, but is not limited to, courses concerning: (A) The social, economic, behavioral, legal, administrative and managerial aspects of health care; (B) the properties and actions of drugs and dosage forms; (C) the etiology, characteristics, therapeutics and prevention of the disease states; (D) the pharmaceutical monitoring and management of patients; and (E) other areas of information unique to specialized types of professional pharmacy practice;
(2) “Certificate of continuing education units” means a document issued to a pharmacist by an organization, institution or agency approved by the commission which offers accredited continuing professional education, which (A) certifies that the pharmacist has satisfactorily completed a specified number of continuing education units, and (B) bears the name of such organization, institution or agency, the title of the program, the dates during which the program was conducted, the number of continuing education units satisfactorily completed and the signature of the director of such organization, institution or agency or the director’s authorized agent;
(3) “Continuing education unit” means ten contact hours of participation in accredited continuing professional education;
(4) “Contact hours” means fifty to sixty minutes of participation in accredited continuing professional education;
(5) “Retired pharmacist” means a pharmacist who is at least sixty-two years of age and no longer actively engaged in the practice of pharmacy; and
(6) “Inactive license” means a license that is issued, in the same manner and for the same fee as specified in this chapter for a license to practice pharmacy, to a retired pharmacist which license does not authorize the retired pharmacist to practice pharmacy and on which the word “inactive” is printed or stamped.