Utah Admin. Code R156-17b-309 - Continuing Education
In accordance with Section 58-17b-310 and Subsections 58-1-203(1)(g) and 58-1-308(3)(b), the continuing education (CE) requirements for renewal or reinstatement of a pharmacist or pharmacy technician license for each two-year renewal cycle are established as follows:
(1) A
pharmacist shall complete at least 30 CE hours, that shall include at minimum:
(a) 12 hours of live or technology-enabled
participation in lectures, seminars, or workshops;
(b) 15 hours in one or more of the following
topics:
(i) disease state management-drug
therapy;
(ii) AIDS
therapy;
(iii) patient safety;
or
(iv) immunizations;
(c) one hour of pharmacy law or
ethics;
(d) if engaging in the
administration of vaccines as defined in Section
R156-17b-621, two hours in
vaccine-related topics, which hours may be counted as part of the 15 hours
required under Subsection (1)(b);
(e) if engaging in the administration of
prescription drugs or devices as defined in Section
R156-17b-621 or
R156-17b-625, two hours in
topics related to the administration of those prescription drugs or devices;
and
(f) if dispensing a
self-administered hormonal contraceptive in accordance with Title 26, Chapter
62, Family Planning Access Act as defined in
R156-17b-621b, two hours in
topics related to hormonal contraceptive therapy.
(2)
(a) A
pharmacy technician shall complete at least 20 CE hours, which shall include at
minimum:
(i) six hours of live or
technology-enabled participation at lectures, seminars, or workshops;
(ii) one hour of pharmacy law or ethics;
and
(iii) if engaging in the
administration of vaccines as defined in Section
R156-17b-621, two hours in
vaccine-related topics.
(b) Current PTCB or ExCPT certification shall
fulfill each CE requirements for a pharmacy technician, except for
vaccine-related topic hours that may be required under Subsection
(2)(a)(iii).
(3)
(a) If a licensee first becomes licensed
during the two-year renewal cycle, the licensee's required number of CE hours
shall be decreased proportionately according to the date of
licensure.
(b) The Division may
defer or waive each CE requirements as provided in Section
R156-1-308d.
(4) CE credit shall be recognized
as follows:
(a) One live CE hour for attending
one Utah State Board of Pharmacy meeting, up to a maximum of two CE hours
during each two-year period. These hours may count as "pharmacy law or ethics"
hours.
(b) Two CE hours for each
hour of lecturing or instructing a CE course or teaching in the licensee's
profession, up to a maximum of ten CE hours during each two-year period. The
licensee shall document the course's content and intended audience (e.g.,
pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy interns, physicians, nurses).
Public service programs, such as presentations to schoolchildren or service
clubs, are not eligible for CE credit.
(c) CE credit shall be approved by, conducted
by, or under the sponsorship of one of the following:
(i) institutes, seminars, lectures,
conferences, workshops, various forms of mediated instruction, and programmed
learning courses, presented by an ACPE-approved institution, individual,
organization, association, corporation, or agency;
(ii) programs approved by health-related CE
approval organizations, provided the CE is nationally recognized by a
healthcare accrediting agency and is related to the practice of
pharmacy;
(iii) Division training
or educational presentations;
(iv)
educational meetings that are ACPE accredited and are sponsored by the Utah
Pharmacy Association, the Utah Society of Health-System Pharmacists, or other
professional organization or association; and
(v) for pharmacists, programs of
certification by qualified individuals such as certified diabetes educator
credentials, board certification, or other certification as approved by the
Division in collaboration with the Board.
(5) A licensee shall maintain documentation
sufficient to prove compliance with this section, for a period of four years
after the end of the renewal cycle for which the CE is due, by:
(a) maintaining registration with the NABP
e-Profile CPE Monitor plan or the NABP CPE Monitor Plus plan; and
(b) maintaining a certificate of completion
or other adequate documentation for CE that cannot be tracked by the licensee's
NABP plan.
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