Iowa Board of Pharmacy amends technician supervision

Regulation in Emergency, Scope of Practice,

As a continuation of practices initiated during the pandemic public health emergency, the Iowa Board of Pharmacy has adopted rules allowing a pharmacist to delegate technical functions of prescription processing to a technician at a location other than where the pharmacist is physically located. The supervising pharmacist will still have access to the system an records being used, and the technician will have real-time communication access to the pharmacist.

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