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2012 Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 32: PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
Chapter 117: MAINE PHARMACY ACT
32 §13786. Identification of persons prescribing medicines on hospital prescription blanks


32 ME Rev Stat § 13786 (2012 through 125th Legis) What's This?

Subchapter 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS HEADING: PL 1987, C. 710, §5 (NEW)

§13786. Identification of persons prescribing medicines on hospital prescription blanks

Any practitioner who writes a prescription upon a prescription blank of a hospital or clinic shall sign that practitioner's name and cause that name to be printed, stamped or typed on the blank. [1987, c. 710, §5 (NEW).]

This section applies to any physician's assistant or registered nurse who writes a prescription while working under the control or supervision of a physician. In case of the physician's assistant or registered nurse, the name of the physician under whom the assistant or nurse works shall be printed, stamped or typed on the blank. [1987, c. 710, §5 (NEW).]

SECTION HISTORY

1987, c. 710, §5 (NEW).

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