Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 37 > Chapter 7 > Part 2 - Board of Pharmacy

• Board: means the board of pharmacy provided for in 2-15-1733. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Clinical pharmacist practitioner: means a licensed pharmacist in good standing who meets the requirements specified in 37-7-306. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Compounding: means the preparation, mixing, assembling, packaging, or labeling of a drug or device based on:

  (a)a practitioner's prescription drug order;

  (b)a professional practice relationship between a practitioner, pharmacist, and patient;

  (c)research, instruction, or chemical analysis, but not for sale or dispensing; or

  (d)the preparation of drugs or devices based on routine, regularly observed prescribing patterns. See Montana Code 37-7-101

• Confidential patient information: means privileged information accessed by, maintained by, or transmitted to a pharmacist in patient records or that is communicated to the patient as part of patient counseling. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Department: means the department of labor and industry provided for in Title 2, chapter 15, part 17. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• dispensing: means the interpretation, evaluation, and implementation of a prescription drug order, including the preparation and delivery of a drug or device to a patient or patient's agent in a suitable container appropriately labeled for administration to or use by a patient. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• distribution: means the sale, purchase, trade, delivery, handling, storage, or receipt of a drug or device and does not include administering or dispensing a prescription drug, pursuant to section 353(b)(1), or a new animal drug, pursuant to section 360b(b) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 U. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Drug: means a substance:

  (a)recognized as a drug in any official compendium or supplement;

  (b)intended for use in diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans or animals;

  (c)other than food, intended to affect the structure or function of the body of humans or animals; and

  (d)intended for use as a component of a substance specified in subsection (16)(a), (16)(b), or (16)(c). See Montana Code 37-7-101

• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Person: includes an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Pharmaceutical care: means the provision of drug therapy and other patient care services intended to achieve outcomes related to the cure or prevention of a disease, elimination or reduction of a patient's symptoms, or arresting or slowing of a disease process. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Pharmacist: means a person licensed by the state to engage in the practice of pharmacy and who may affix to the person's name the term "R. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Pharmacy: means an established location, either physical or electronic, registered by the board where drugs or devices are dispensed with pharmaceutical care or where pharmaceutical care is provided. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Practice of pharmacy: means :

  (a)interpreting, evaluating, and implementing prescriber orders;

  (b)administering drugs and devices pursuant to a collaborative practice agreement, except as provided in 37-7-105, and compounding, labeling, dispensing, and distributing drugs and devices, including patient counseling;

  (c)properly and safely procuring, storing, distributing, and disposing of drugs and devices and maintaining proper records;

  (d)prescribing drugs and devices in accordance with 37-7-106;

  (e)monitoring drug therapy and use;

  (f)initiating or modifying drug therapy in accordance with collaborative pharmacy practice agreements established and approved by health care facilities or voluntary agreements with prescribers;

  (g)participating in quality assurance and performance improvement activities;

  (h)providing information on drugs, dietary supplements, and devices to patients, the public, and other health care providers; and

  (i)participating in scientific or clinical research as an investigator or in collaboration with other investigators. See Montana Code 37-7-101

• Practice pharmacy by means of telehealth: means to provide pharmaceutical care through the use of information technology to patients at a distance. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201