Kan. Admin. Regs. § 68-7-12b - Incident reports
(a) For purposes
of this regulation, "reportable incident" and "incident" shall mean a
preventable medication error involving a prescription drug and resulting in any
of the following:
(1) The patient receiving
the wrong drug;
(2) the patient
receiving an incorrect drug strength;
(3) the patient receiving an incorrect dosage
form;
(4) the drug being received
by the wrong patient;
(5)
inadequate or incorrect packaging, labeling, or directions; or
(6) the dispensing of a drug to a patient in
a situation that results in or has the potential to result in serious harm to
the patient.
(b) For
each pharmacy other than a medical care pharmacy, the pharmacist-in-charge
shall ensure that procedures exist requiring each pharmacist who becomes aware
of a reportable incident to report the incident to the pharmacist-in-charge as
soon as practical.
(c) As soon as
possible after discovery of the incident, the pharmacist shall prepare a report
containing the following information:
(1) The
name, address, age, and phone number of any complainant, if available;
(2) the name of each pharmacy
employee and the license number of each licensee involved;
(3) the date of the incident and the date of
the report;
(4) the pharmacist's
description of the incident;
(5)
the prescriber's name and whether or not the prescriber was contacted; and
(6) the signatures of all pharmacy
employees involved in the incident.
For each pharmacy, the pharmacist-in-charge shall ensure that procedures exist requiring that the incident report be maintained in the pharmacy for at least five years in a manner so that the report can be provided to the board or its representative within three business days, upon request.
(d) The
preparation of an incident report that meets the requirements of this
regulation shall be the responsibility of each pharmacist involved in the
incident and the pharmacist-in-charge. The maintenance of incident reports as
required by this regulation shall be the responsibility of the
pharmacist-in-charge.
Notes
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