TITLE 18. PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING
BOARD OF PHARMACY
Initial Agency Notice
Title of Regulation: 18VAC110-20. Regulations Governing the Practice of Pharmacy.
Statutory Authority: § 54.1-2400 of the Code of Virginia.
Name of Petitioner: Angela Gilley.
Nature of Petitioner's Request: Within a hospital or free-standing emergency department setting, the medical staff may approve guidelines that are clinically accepted as the standard of care, or are approved by the medical staff of the hospital through the typical approval process (such as the pharmacy and therapeutics committee), which allow pharmacists to change, discontinue, adjust, monitor, order pertinent labs, and make subsequent adjustments to medications as applicable to the approved guideline without requiring a physician order to implement the guideline. In addition, a practitioner may write an order for "pharmacy to dose" a medication, which allows the pharmacist to dose, monitor, order pertinent labs, and make subsequent adjustments to any medication specified in the order based on the pharmacist's clinical judgment.
Agency Plan for Disposition of Request: In accordance with Virginia law, the petition has been filed with the Registrar of Regulations and will be published on January 25, 2016. Comment on the petition may be sent by email or regular mail or posted on the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall at www.townhall.virginia.gov; comment is requested until February 24, 2016. Following receipt of all comments on the petition to amend regulations, the board will decide whether to make any changes to the regulatory language in Regulations Governing the Practice of Pharmacy. It will also be reviewed by an assistant attorney general who can advise the board on whether the request requires a change in the Code of Virginia. This matter will be on the board's agenda for its meeting scheduled for March 25, 2016.
Public Comment Deadline: February 24, 2016.
Agency Contact: Elaine Yeatts, Agency Regulatory Coordinator, Department of Health Professions, 9960 Mayland Drive, Richmond, VA 23233, telephone (804) 367-4688, or email elaine.yeatts@dhp.virginia.gov.
VA.R. Doc. No. R16-11; Filed December 28, 2015, 9:47 a.m.
Initial Agency Notice
Title of Regulation: 18VAC110-20. Regulations Governing the Practice of Pharmacy.
Statutory Authority: § 54.1-2400 of the Code of Virginia.
Name of Petitioner: David Merryfield.
Nature of Petitioner's Request: To allow bar code and RFID scanning to extend the pharmacist check, once the bar code or RFID scan has been verified once for each product by a pharmacist.
Agency Plan for Disposition of Request: Comment on the petition may be sent by email or regular mail or posted on the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall at www.townhall.virginia.gov; comment is requested until February 24, 2016. Following receipt of all comments on the petition to amend regulations, the board will decide whether to make any changes to the regulatory language in Regulations Governing the Practice of Pharmacy. This matter will be on the board's agenda for its meeting scheduled for March 25, 2016, and the petitioner will be informed of the board's decision on his request after that meeting.
Public Comment Deadline: February 24, 2016.
Agency Contact: Elaine Yeatts, Agency Regulatory Coordinator, Department of Health Professions, 9960 Mayland Drive, Richmond, VA 23233, telephone (804) 367-4688, or email elaine.yeatts@dhp.virginia.gov.
VA.R. Doc. No. R16-12; Filed December 31, 2015, 10:58 a.m.