NAC639.67055. Record verifying accuracy required to be made.

     1. For all sterile compounded drug products compounded by a pharmacy, other than an institutional pharmacy, and for all sterile drug products for parenteral nutrition and sterile antineoplastic drug products compounded by an institutional pharmacy, a pharmacist shall make a record verifying the accuracy of each sterile compounded drug product that the pharmacist:

     (a) Compounded;

     (b) Verified the accuracy of after it was compounded by a pharmaceutical technician; or

     (c) Dispensed for administration to a patient in a medical facility.

     2. A pharmacist required to make a record pursuant to subsection 1 shall:

     (a) Make the record contemporaneous with the completion of the compounding, verifying or dispensing of the sterile compounded drug product;

     (b) Include in the record information identifying the patient for which the sterile compounded drug product was made and the date the sterile compounded drug product was compounded; and

     (c) Initial the record if it is a written record or enter an initial or other identifying mark onto the record if the record is made in a computerized system.

     3. A pharmacy for which a record was made pursuant to subsection 1 shall ensure that the record is maintained for at least 6 months after the date the sterile compounded drug product was compounded, verified or dispensed.

     4. If a sterile compounded drug product is compounded by a pharmaceutical technician, the pharmaceutical technician shall make a record of the compounding in the same manner as a pharmacist is required to make a record pursuant to this section.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Pharmacy by R035-06, eff. 9-18-2008)