No. SB 294
Filed under Healthcare.
Connecting to Care Act; Citing this act as the "Connecting to Care Act"; authorizing a pharmacist to administer certain medications under certain circumstances, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDPharmacists join physician assistants, nurses, and licensed practical nurses as professionals who may deliver medication-assisted treatment take-home medication for substance abuse patients, working under a licensed treatment provider and a physician-established protocol.
A separate law that already let pharmacists inject long-acting antipsychotic medication under a doctor's protocol now also covers medication for treating opiate addiction, using the same training, privacy, and per-injection prescription rules.
Pharmacists' required 8-hour continuing education course must now also teach safe injection of opiate-addiction medication and its allergic-reaction risks, alongside the antipsychotic-medication training it already covered.
AIA pharmacist working for a licensed medication-assisted treatment provider may now deliver medication as prescribed by rule, joining physician assistants, registered nurses, advanced practice registered nurses, and licensed practical nurses.
AIA pharmacist acting under a physician's established protocol may now administer FDA-approved medication for the treatment of opiate addiction by injection, using the same authority that previously covered only long-acting antipsychotic medication.
AIThe 8-hour continuing education course a pharmacist must complete before administering these injections must now also teach the safe and effective administration of opiate-addiction medication by injection, including its allergic-reaction risks.
AIA pharmacist delivering medication-assisted treatment must act under an established protocol with a supervising physician licensed under chapter 458 or 459, and must sign that protocol personally.