(a) A pharmacist at a hospital pharmacy shall obtain an accurate medication profile or list for each high-risk patient upon admission of the high-risk patient under the following conditions:
(1) The hospital has more than 100 beds.
(2) The accurate medication profile or list may be acquired by the pharmacist during the hospital pharmacy’s hours of operation.
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, a pharmacy technician or an intern pharmacist may perform the task of obtaining an accurate medication profile or list for a high-risk patient if both of the following conditions are satisfied:
(1) The hospital pharmacy has a quality assurance program to monitor competency.
(2) The hospital has established policies and procedures for training and proctoring pharmacy technicians or intern pharmacists by the hospital pharmacy department and the pharmacy technician or intern pharmacist has completed that training and proctoring.
(c) The hospital shall establish criteria regarding who is a high-risk patient for purposes of this section, and shall determine the timeframe for completion of the medication profile or list, based on the patient populations served by the hospital.
(d) The board may adopt rules and regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this section.
(e) This section shall not apply to the State Department of State Hospitals.
(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a healing arts licensee licensed pursuant to this division from obtaining an accurate medication profile or list.
(Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 697, Sec. 1. (SB 1254) Effective January 1, 2019.)
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