No. SB 868
Filed under Healthcare.
Practice of the Profession of Pharmacy; Authorizing pharmacists who meet specified criteria to, at the direction of a licensed physician, administer medications at a Level I or Level II trauma center under certain circumstances; requiring trauma centers to retain certain documentation to employ pharmacists to perform such tasks, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDA pharmacist directed and delegated by a physician can administer medications to a patient having a life-threatening emergency at a Level I or Level II trauma center. The pharmacist must first meet a residency or hospital-experience qualification.
That qualification means either an accredited postgraduate residency or at least three years of direct hospital patient care. The trauma center must keep proof of that qualification on file before assigning the pharmacist this task.
Separately, every licensed pharmacist in the state, not only those at trauma centers, can now order and run federal CLIA-waived tests, including FDA-authorized serology tests, as part of routine pharmacy practice.
AIOrdering and administering federal CLIA-waived tests, including FDA-authorized serology tests, becomes part of the legal definition of pharmacy practice for any licensed pharmacist, not just those in trauma centers.
AIA pharmacist directed and delegated by a physician may administer medications to a patient during a life-threatening emergency at a Level I or Level II trauma center.
AIA pharmacist must have completed an accredited postgraduate residency program, or at least 3 years of direct patient care in a hospital, before administering medications under this authority.
AIA trauma center must retain on record documentation proving a pharmacist meets the residency or experience qualification before employing that pharmacist to administer medication under this authority.