• Activity INFORMATION

  Overview

  Pharmacists and technicians face many legal and regulatory issues when dispensing prescriptions, besides the risk of making an error. Federal and state legislative and regulatory bodies and courts have made changes that impact prescribing and dispensing, especially for controlled drugs. Pharmacy staff need to be cognizant of penalties for excessive prescribing and dispensing of opioids, new standards for determining the validity of a prescription, oversight of information about medically controversial therapies, and limits on dispensing of politically divisive drugs.
  

  Handouts

  • Slide Document :   23039H03_2pp.pdf Download

  • Slide Document :   23039H03_6pp.pdf Download

  Financial Support By

  PharmCon

• Learning OBJECTIVES

  Pharmacist

  Discuss the recent Supreme Court decision concerning the overprescribing of controlled drugs

  Characterize emerging legal and regulatory standards on refusing or preventing dispensing

  Compare the application of legal and regulatory rules when disseminating information about controversial therapies

  Describe penalties for overprescribing or dispensing controlled substances

  Pharmacy Technician

  Describe penalties for overprescribing or dispensing controlled substances

  Characterize emerging legal and regulatory standards on refusing or preventing dispensing

  Discuss the recent Supreme Court decision concerning the overprescribing of controlled drugs

  Compare the application of legal and regulatory rules when disseminating information about controversial therapies

  Nurse

  Compare the application of legal and regulatory rules when disseminating information about controversial therapies

  Discuss the recent Supreme Court decision concerning the overprescribing of controlled drugs

  Characterize emerging legal and regulatory standards on refusing or preventing dispensing

  Describe penalties for overprescribing or dispensing controlled substances

• Activity ACCREDITATION

  Activity Type

  Knowledge

  CE Broker

  20-1092524

  Universal Activity Number

  Pharmacist 0798-0000-23-039-H03-P
  Pharmacy Technician 0798-0000-23-039-H03-T
  Nurse 0798-0000-23-039-H03-N
  

  PharmCon is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

  PharmCon is an approved course provider for continuing education for nurses by the Florida Board of Nursing. PharmCon is also recognized by the California Board of Nursing as a provider of nursing programs.

  In order to obtain a Statement of Credit, participants must score no less than a 70% on the activity's test and complete a program evaluation.

• Activity INSTRUCTION

  Faculty

  Gerald  Gianutsos, JD, PhD, BS Pharm, MS Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy

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