Connecticut General Statutes 20-613 – Dispensing of drug or legend device pursuant to prescription only; exceptions. Emergency dispensing of drug or device in care-giving, correctional or juvenile training institutions; regulations. Pharmacy technici…
(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (d) of this section, a drug or a legend device may be dispensed pursuant to a prescription only in a pharmacy or institutional pharmacy by a pharmacist or by a pharmacy intern when acting under the direct supervision of a pharmacist, or by an individual holding a temporary permit.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 20-613
- Administration: means the direct application of a drug or device to the body of a patient or research subject by injection, inhalation, ingestion or any other means. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-571
- Commission: means the Commission of Pharmacy appointed under the provisions of section 20-572. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-571
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Consumer Protection. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-571
- Device: means instruments, apparatuses and contrivances, including their components, parts and accessories, intended (A) for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in humans or other animals, or (B) to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or other animals, but does not mean contact lenses. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-571
- Dispense: means those acts of processing a drug or device for delivery or for administration for a patient pursuant to a prescription consisting of: (A) Comparing the directions on the label with the directions on the prescription to determine accuracy. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-571
- Drug: means (A) an article recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them, (B) an article intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in humans or other animals, (C) an article, other than food, intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or any other animal, and (D) an article intended for use as a component of any article specified in this subdivision, but does not include a device. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-571
- Institutional pharmacy: means that area within a care-giving institution or within a correctional or juvenile training institution, commonly known as the pharmacy, that is under the direct charge of a pharmacist and in which drugs are stored and dispensed. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-571
- Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate trust, partnership, association, joint venture or any other legal or commercial entity. 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
- Pharmacy intern: means an individual registered under the provisions of section 20-598. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-571
- Pharmacy technician: means an individual who is registered with the department and qualified in accordance with section 20-598a. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-571
- Prescribing practitioner: means an individual licensed by the state of Connecticut, any other state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States who is authorized to issue a prescription within the scope of the individual's practice. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-571
- Prescription: means a lawful order of a prescribing practitioner transmitted either orally, in writing or by electronic means for a drug or device for a specific patient. 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
(b) In care-giving institutions and correctional or juvenile training institutions in emergency situations when the pharmacist is not available for the dispensing of drugs or devices from the institutional pharmacy, the prescription shall be reviewed by the nursing supervisor or a physician before administration of the drug or device and recorded with the pharmacist in its original form or a copy thereof. After the required review in such emergency situations, the person authorized by the institution may dispense drugs and devices from the institutional pharmacy pursuant to regulations adopted by the commissioner, with the advice and assistance of the commission, in accordance with chapter 54.
(c) A pharmacy technician in a pharmacy or an institutional pharmacy may assist, under the direct supervision of a pharmacist, in the dispensing of drugs and devices. A person whose license to practice pharmacy is under suspension or revocation shall not act as a pharmacy technician.
(d) Nothing in sections 20-570 to 20-630, inclusive, shall prevent a prescribing practitioner from dispensing the prescribing practitioner’s own prescriptions to the prescribing practitioner’s own patients when authorized within the scope of the prescribing practitioner’s own practice and when done in compliance with sections 20-14c to 20-14g, inclusive.