2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 639 - Pharmacists and Pharmacy
NRS 639.013 - "Prescription" defined.

Universal Citation: NV Rev Stat § 639.013 (2022)

1. "Prescription" means:

(a) An order given individually for the person for whom prescribed, directly from the practitioner to a pharmacist or indirectly by means of an order signed by the practitioner or by an electronic transmission from the practitioner to a pharmacist.

(b) A chart order written for an inpatient specifying drugs which the inpatient is to take home upon discharge.

2. The term does not include a chart order written for an inpatient for use while he or she is an inpatient.

(Added to NRS by 1967, 1652; A 1973, 774; 1979, 343, 1684; 1987, 1650; 1991, 1948)

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