2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 71-2411 — Terms, defined.

Section 71-2411
Terms, defined.

For purposes of the Emergency Box Drug Act:

(1) Authorized personnel shall mean any medical doctor, doctor of osteopathy, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, pharmacist, or physician's assistant;

(2) Department shall mean the Department of Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure;

(3) Drug shall mean any prescription drug or device or legend drug or device defined under section 71-1,142, any nonprescription drug as defined under section 71-1,142, any controlled substance as defined under section 28-405, or any device as defined under section 71-1,142;

(4) Emergency box drugs shall mean drugs required to meet the immediate therapeutic needs of patients when the drugs are not available from any other authorized source in time to sufficiently prevent risk of harm to such patients by the delay resulting from obtaining such drugs from such other authorized source;

(5) Institution shall mean an intermediate care facility, an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded, a mental health center, a nursing facility, and a skilled nursing facility, as such terms are defined in sections 71-420, 71-421, 71-423, 71-424, and 71-429;

(6) Institutional pharmacy shall mean the physical portion of an institution engaged in the compounding, dispensing, and labeling of drugs which is operating pursuant to a pharmacy license issued by the department under the Health Care Facility Licensure Act;

(7) Multiple dose vial shall mean any bottle in which more than one dose of a liquid drug is stored or contained; and

(8) Supplying pharmacist shall mean the pharmacist in charge of an institutional pharmacy or a pharmacist who provides emergency box drugs to an institution pursuant to the Emergency Box Drug Act. Supplying pharmacist shall not include any agent or employee of the supplying pharmacist who is not a pharmacist.

Source:

Laws 1994, LB 1210, § 183

Laws 1996, LB 1044, § 625

Laws 1997, LB 608, § 16

Laws 2000, LB 819, § 106

Laws 2001, LB 398, § 70

Cross References:

Health Care Facility Licensure Act,see section 71-401.

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska