NAC639.751. Requirements concerning signatures or initials to be placed on prescription.

     1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, if the signature or initials of a pharmacist or pharmaceutical technician are required to be placed on a prescription by a provision of chapter 453 or 639 of NRS or any regulations adopted pursuant thereto, the signature or initials must be:

     (a) Handwritten:

          (1) In nonerasable ink;

          (2) Personally by the pharmacist or pharmaceutical technician who is identified by the signature or initials;

          (3) Contemporaneously with the act for which the signature or initials are required; and

          (4) On the document on which the signature or initials are required; or

     (b) Entered into a record in a computer system used by the pharmacy if the computer system:

          (1) Makes and retains a record which:

               (I) Documents the date and time at which the signature or initials are entered; and

               (II) Cannot be modified or deleted; and

          (2) Uses a method which ensures that the signature or initials accurately depict the identity of the person entering the signature or initials, including, without limitation:

               (I) Biometric identification;

               (II) A bar code, magnetic strip, radio frequency chip or other similar technology; or

               (III) A personal identification number, password or other similar type of unique code.

     2. Any signature or initials entered into a record in a computer system relating to the processing, filling or refilling of a prescription that are not required to be entered by a provision of chapter 453 or 639 of NRS or any regulations adopted pursuant thereto must comply with the requirements of subsection 1.

     3. A written record of a refill of a prescription pursuant to NAC 639.918 is not required for a prescription refilled by a pharmacist who enters his or her signature or initials onto a record of the refill in a computer system pursuant to subsection 1. The provisions of this subsection must not be construed to exempt a pharmacy from the recordkeeping requirements of NRS 639.2392.

     4. A signature or initials required for the following acts must be handwritten:

     (a) The sale of any Schedule “A” poison, as defined in NRS 454.010;

     (b) The dispensing or selling of procaine hydrochloride with preservatives and stabilizers (Gerovital H3) pursuant to NRS 639.2845;

     (c) The receipt of in-service training as a pharmaceutical technician pursuant to NAC 639.254; and

     (d) The changing of the written policies and procedures relating to the operation of a pharmacy by the managing pharmacist pursuant to NAC 639.941.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Pharmacy by R050-07, eff. 12-17-2008)