§ 33-24-136 — Filing memorandum of prescription; labels generally; prescription defined; counseling and patient profiles

Wyoming § 33-24-136

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 33: Professions and Occupations
• Ch. 24: PHARMACY
• Art. 1: IN GENERAL

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(a) Every person who prepares, compounds, processes,
packages or repackages, dispenses, fills or sells or offers for
sale, at retail or in connection with operation of a health care
facility, any prescription, shall place the written or
electronic record of the prescription in a separate file marked
and kept for that purpose, and shall affix a label to the
container in which the prescribed substance is dispensed bearing
the name and address of the pharmacy and initials of the
dispensing pharmacist, or of the preceptor if the dispenser is
an intern, the date on which the prescription is filed in the
pharmacy's files, the name of the person who prescribed the
substance, the name of the patient or customer for whom the
prescription was made and directions for use by the patient as
directed on the prescription by the practitioner.
(b) "Prescription" means an order for medication by a
person licensed and authorized by the state board of medicine,
the state board of dental examiners, the state board of nursing,
the state board of registration in podiatry, the state board of
examiners in optometry or the state board of veterinary medicine
which is dispensed to or for an ultimate user, but does not
include an order for medication which is dispensed for immediate
administration to the ultimate user. Each prescription record
shall be maintained and available for inspection by agents of
the board for a period of two (2) years from the date it is
filed.
(c) Pharmacists shall offer to and shall counsel patients
if requested, concerning and in conjunction with drugs dispensed
pursuant to a new prescription.
(d) Pharmacies shall maintain patient profile records of
the dispensing of drugs pursuant to a prescription.
(e) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, if, in
the opinion of the pharmacist, an emergency exists whereby the
practitioner who ordered or prescribed the prescription cannot
be contacted for authorization and there is a need to refill the
prescription, the pharmacist may provide up to a seventy-two
(72) hour supply, or the smallest available unit, of the
previously prescribed drug, except a controlled substance.
Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to require a
pharmacist to refill the prescription in the absence of
authorization from the practitioner.