2006 Utah Code - 58-17b-602 — Prescription orders -- Information required -- Alteration -- Labels -- Signatures.

     58-17b-602.   Prescription orders -- Information required -- Alteration -- Labels -- Signatures.
     (1) The minimum information that shall be included in a prescription order and may be defined by rule is:
     (a) the prescriber's name, address, and telephone number, and, if the order is for a controlled substance, the patient's age and the prescriber's DEA number;
     (b) the patient's name and address or, in the case of an animal, name of the owner and species of the animal;
     (c) the date of issuance;
     (d) the name of the medication or device prescribed and dispensing instructions, if necessary;
     (e) the directions for the use of the prescription, if appropriate, for the patient or animal, any refill, special labeling, and other instructions;
     (f) the prescriber's signature if the prescription order is written;
     (g) if an electronically transmitted prescription order, prescribing practitioner's electronic signature; and
     (h) if a hard copy prescription order generated from electronic media, prescribing practitioner's electronic or manual signature.
     (2) The requirement of Subsection (1)(a) does not apply to prescription orders dispensed for inpatients by hospital pharmacies if the prescriber is a current member of the hospital staff and the prescription order is on file in the patient's medical record.
     (3) The prescription order, except for controlled substance II, may be dispensed by pharmacists or pharmacy interns upon an oral prescription of a practitioner, if the oral prescription is promptly reduced to writing.
     (4) (a) A pharmacist or pharmacy intern may not dispense or compound any prescription of a practitioner if it shows evidence of alteration, erasure, or addition by any person other than the person writing the prescription, except under Subsection (4)(b).
     (b) A pharmacist or pharmacy intern dispensing or compounding the prescription may alter or make additions after receiving permission of the prescriber, or may make entries or additions on the prescription required by law or necessitated in the compounding and dispensing procedures.
     (5) Each drug dispensed shall have a label securely affixed to the container indicating the following minimum information:
     (a) the name, address, and telephone number of the pharmacy;
     (b) the serial number of the prescription as assigned by the dispensing pharmacy;
     (c) the filling date of the prescription or its last dispensing date;
     (d) the name of the patient, or in the case of an animal, name of the owner and species of the animal;
     (e) the name of the prescriber;
     (f) the directions for use and cautionary statements, if any, which are contained in the prescription order or are needed;
     (g) the trade, generic, or chemical name, amount dispensed and strength of dosage form, but if multiple ingredient products with established proprietary or nonproprietary names are prescribed, those products' names may be used; and
     (h) the beyond use date.

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     (6) If the prescriber specifically indicates the name of the prescription product should not appear on the label, then the trade, generic, or chemical name and strength of dosage form may not be included.

Enacted by Chapter 280, 2004 General Session