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2014 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 61 - Professional and Occupational Licenses
Section 11A Impaired Pharmacists
Section 61-11A-2 Definitions.
NM Stat § 61-11A-2 (2014) What's This?
61-11A-2. Definitions.
As used in the Impaired Pharmacists Act:
A. "board" means the New Mexico board of pharmacy;
B. "board-approved intervenors" means persons trained to intervention and designated by the board to implement the intervention process when necessary;
C. "committee" means a committee appointed by the board to formulate and administer the impaired pharmacists program;
D. "impaired pharmacist" means a pharmacist who is unable to practice pharmacy with reasonable skill, competency or safety to the public because of substance abuse, mental illness, the aging process or loss of motor skills;
E. "impaired pharmacist program" means a plan approved by the board for treatment and rehabilitation of an impaired pharmacist;
F. "intervention" means a process whereby an alleged impaired pharmacist is confronted by the board or board-approved intervenors who provide documentation that a problem exists and attempt to convince the pharmacist to seek evaluation and treatment;
G. "rehabilitation" means the process whereby an impaired pharmacist advances in an impaired pharmacists program to an optimal level of competence to practice pharmacy without endangering the public; and
H. "verification" means a process whereby alleged professional impairment is identified or established.
History: Laws 1987, ch. 284, 2.
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