657—5.18(155A) Nontechnical pharmacy support tasks. An appropriately trained and registered pharmacy support person may perform any of the following nontechnical functions that have been delegated to the pharmacy support person by the supervising pharmacist: 1. Perform the duties of a pharmacy clerk. The duties of a pharmacy clerk may include placing a prescription container into a bag or sack for delivery to the patient as part of the sales transaction after the accuracy of the prescription has been verified by the pharmacist. 2. Process wholesale drug orders, including the submission of orders, the receipt and processing of drug deliveries from drug wholesalers, reconciling products received with packing slips or invoices, and affixing appropriate inventory or price stickers to drug stock bottles or containers. 3. Perform routine clerical duties, such as filing processed, hard-copy prescriptions and other pharmacy records. 4. Update or change patient demographic information, excluding allergies and disease state information, in the pharmacy computer system or patient profile. 5. Receive from a patient the patient’s request for a prescription refill, excluding the processing of the refill request. 6. Perform pharmacy drug inventory control duties, including checking pharmacy stock shelves for outdated drugs and assisting with annual inventory counts. 7. Deliver drugs to patient care areas, long-term care facilities, patient residences, or patient employment locations, excluding the restocking of automated medication distribution system components. 8. Perform any routine clerical or pharmacy support function not prohibited in rule 657—5.17(155A). 9. In nuclear pharmacy practice, perform nonjudgmental tasks under the direct supervision of a nuclear pharmacist pursuant to 657—Chapter 16.
