059-12 Wyo. Code R. §§ 12-4 - Definitions

(a) "Automated Dispensing Device" means a mechanical system that performs operations or activities, other than compounding or administration, relative to the storage, packaging, dispensing, or distribution of medications, and which collects, controls and maintains all transaction information.

(b) "Beyond-Use Date" means a date placed on a prescription label at the time of dispensing that is intended to indicate to the patient or caregiver a time beyond which the contents of the prescription are not recommended to be used.

(c) "Clean Room" means a room with a minimum of an ISO Class 7 environment as defined in chapter 17:

(d) "Drug Room" means a secure and lockable location within an inpatient care facility that does not have an institutional pharmacy.

(e) "Emergency Drug Cart (crash cart)" means a cart containing those drugs that may be required to meet the immediate therapeutic needs of patients

(f) "Floor Stock" means prescription drugs not labeled for a specific patient and maintained at a nursing station or other institutional facility department (excluding the institutional pharmacy) for the purpose of administration to a patient of the institutional facility.

(g) "Formulary" means a continually revised compilation of pharmaceuticals that reflects the current clinical judgment of the pharmacy staff and medical staff of the institutional facility.

(h) "Institutional Facility" means a hospital, convalescent home, nursing home, extended care facility, correctional or penal facility, or any other organization, public or private, which provides a physical environment for patients to obtain medical, surgical, and/or nursing services, except those places where physicians, dentists, veterinarians, or other practitioners of the healing arts engage in private office practice.

(i) "Institutional Pharmacy" means a pharmacy where medications are dispensed to other health care professionals for administration to institutionalized patients served by an institutional facility, and which is:

(i) Located within the institutional facility, or

(ii) Located outside the institutional facility but only provides pharmacy services to institutionalized patients.

(j) "Investigational Drug" means:

(i) A substance in a clinical stage of evaluation not released by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for general use or for sale in interstate commerce; or

(ii) Commercial drugs that are proposed for a new use, contain a new component, have a new dosage or mode of administration, or are in a new combination or combined in new proportions.

(k) "Medication Order" means a written, electronic, or verbal order from a practitioner (or his/her agent) authorized by law to prescribe medications for administration to a patient.

(l) "Remote Order Processing for Institutional Pharmacies" includes any of the following activities performed for an institutional pharmacy from a remote location:

(i) Receiving, interpreting, or clarifying medication orders;

(ii) Entering or transferring medication order data;

(iii) Performing prospective drug use review;

(iv) Obtaining substitution authorizations;

(v) Interpreting and acting on clinical data;

(vi) Performing therapeutic interventions;

(vii) Providing drug information;

(viii) Authorizing the release of a medication for administration.

Notes

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