NAC639.472. Maintenance of reference library.

A pharmacy must maintain a reference library that includes the following:

     1. A current copy of:

     (a) All state statutes and regulations relating to the practice of pharmacy and to the sale of drugs and controlled substances; and

     (b) The Federal Controlled Substances Act (Title II of Pub. L. 91-513, Oct. 27, 1970, 84 Stat. 1242) and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto or an official publication describing the requirements of that act and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto.

     2. The American Hospital Formulary Service, with current supplements, or Facts and Comparisons, with current supplements.

     3. At least one current text in one of the following subjects:

     (a) Theoretical and practical pharmacy.

     (b) Pharmacology.

     (c) Therapeutics.

     4. A current text relating to each of the following:

     (a) Compatibility information, if parenteral admixture is performed by the pharmacy;

     (b) Information concerning the interaction of drugs; and

     (c) Information concerning antidotes.

     5. Current copies of one of the following:

     (a) United States Pharmacopeia - National Formulary, as adopted by reference in paragraph (c) of subsection 1 of NAC 639.670;

     (b) United States Pharmacopeia - Drug Information; or

     (c) Remington’s Pharmaceutical Sciences.

     6. A current copy of the Food and Drug Administration Approved Drug Products.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Pharmacy, eff. 3-27-90; A 9-12-91; R035-06, 9-18-2008)