New
Mexico Register / Volume XXXV, Issue 9 / May 7, 2024
This is an amendment to 16.19.11 NMAC, Section 7
effective 5/07/2024
16.19.11.7 DEFINITIONS:
A. Licensed
Facility - Any facility, skilled nursing facility, intermediate care or any
other upper level of care facility as defined by Health and Human Services
Department that is required to maintain custody of patients drugs in a drug
room, and such drugs are administered by the facilities' designated personnel.
B. Licensed
Custodial Care Facility - Any facility or business, including non-profit entity
which provides [care and
services on a continuing basis, for two or more in-house residents, not related
to the operator, and which maintains custody of the residents' drugs]
retirement care, mental care or
other facility that provides extended health care to patients.
C. Consultant pharmacist
- means a pharmacist who is responsible to the administrator of the facility
and the Board of Pharmacy for the development of the drug storage and
distribution and record keeping requirements of a licensed nursing home
facility, and as further defined in 16.19.4.11 NMAC.
D. Designated agent
- A licensed nurse, certified nurse practitioner, physician assistant,
pharmacist or pharmacist clinician authorized by a practitioner and employed in
a facility to whom the practitioner communicates a prescription drug order.
E. Prescription drug
order - An order from a practitioner or a practitioner's designated agent to a
pharmacist for a drug or device to be dispensed.
[16.19.11.7 NMAC -
Rp 16 NMAC 19.11.7, 12-15-02; A, 5/07/2024]