Here you can find pharmacy practice guidance documents, standing orders, patient handouts, and inspection templates. Instructions for the Board’s plan of correction process is also available.
- This page, Pharmacy Practice Resources, is offered by
- Board of Registration in Pharmacy
- Bureau of Health Professions Licensure
- Department of Public Health
Pharmacy Practice Resources
Table of Contents
Advisories
Best Practice Recommendations (PDF), Open PDF file, 152.01 KB
(English, PDF 152.01 KB)
Controlled Substance Inventory Management (PDF), Open PDF file, 259.68 KB
(English, PDF 259.68 KB)
Controlled Substance Prescriptions (PDF), Open PDF file, 150.05 KB
(English, PDF 150.05 KB)
Information for Managers of Record (PDF), Open PDF file, 145.08 KB
(English, PDF 145.08 KB)
Lean Concepts (PDF), Open PDF file, 100.55 KB
(English, PDF 100.55 KB)
Medication Delivery and Shipping (PDF), Open PDF file, 127.49 KB
(English, PDF 127.49 KB)
Sale of Hypodermic Syringes and Needles, Open PDF file, 135.15 KB
(English, PDF 135.15 KB)
Sterile Injectable Dispensing (Including Testosterone) (PDF), Open PDF file, 94.12 KB
(English, PDF 94.12 KB)
USP 800 in Community Pharmacies, Open PDF file, 182.35 KB
(English, PDF 182.35 KB)
Compounding
2020-02: Compounding Copies of Commercially Available Drugs (PDF), Open PDF file, 86.21 KB
(English, PDF 86.21 KB)
2023-07: Non-Sterile Compounding (PDF), Open PDF file, 222.68 KB
(English, PDF 222.68 KB)
2024-02: Implantable Infusion Pumps (PDF), Open PDF file, 101.72 KB
(English, PDF 101.72 KB)
2024-04: Defective Drug Preparations, Open PDF file, 221.78 KB
(English, PDF 221.78 KB)
2025-01: Rapid Microbial Methods (Rapid Sterility Testing) (PDF), Open PDF file, 122.11 KB
(English, PDF 122.11 KB)
2026-03: Action Level Environmental Monitoring Results, Open PDF file, 266.76 KB
(English, PDF 266.76 KB)
Action Level Environmental Monitoring Remediation Considerations (PDF), Open PDF file, 326.64 KB
(English, PDF 326.64 KB)
Automated Non-Sterile Compounding Devices (PDF), Open PDF file, 143.79 KB
(English, PDF 143.79 KB)
Compounded Ketamine, Open PDF file, 103.75 KB
(English, PDF 103.75 KB)
Environmental Monitoring (PDF), Open PDF file, 232.73 KB
(English, PDF 232.73 KB)
Failed HEPA Filters in ISO-Classified Environments (PDF), Open PDF file, 199.32 KB
(English, PDF 199.32 KB)
HVAC Excursions (PDF), Open PDF file, 178.7 KB
(English, PDF 178.7 KB)
Institutional Continuity of Care (PDF), Open PDF file, 90.1 KB
(English, PDF 90.1 KB)
Media Fill Testing (PDF), Open PDF file, 130.59 KB
(English, PDF 130.59 KB)
Smoke Studies in ISO-Classified Areas (PDF), Open PDF file, 151.88 KB
(English, PDF 151.88 KB)
Draft Regulations
Inspection Resources
Retail Pharmacy Inspection Template, Open PDF file, 1.22 MB
(English, PDF 1.22 MB)
Sterile Compounding Pharmacy Inspection Template (PDF), Open PDF file, 6.1 MB
(English, PDF 6.1 MB)
Sterile Compounding Documents for Inspection (PDF), Open PDF file, 479.1 KB
(English, PDF 479.1 KB)
Non-Sterile Compounding Pharmacy Inspection Template (PDF), Open PDF file, 2.05 MB
(English, PDF 2.05 MB)
Non-Sterile Compounding Documents for Inspection (PDF), Open PDF file, 478.6 KB
(English, PDF 478.6 KB)
Nuclear Pharmacy Inspection Template (PDF), Open PDF file, 1.15 MB
(English, PDF 1.15 MB)
Laws and Regulations
Plan of correction
Plan of Correction Directions for Licensees, Open PDF file, 123.97 KB
(English, PDF 123.97 KB)
Plan of Correction Directions for Licensees, Open DOC file, 37 KB
(English, DOC 37 KB)
Plan of Correction Template, Open PDF file, 98.49 KB
(English, PDF 98.49 KB)
Plan of Correction Template, Open DOC file, 61 KB
(English, DOC 61 KB)
Policies and Circular Letters
2026-02: Ratios, Supervision, and Dedicated Training Personnel, Open PDF file, 224.12 KB
(English, PDF 224.12 KB)
2026-01: Loss or Theft of Controlled Substances (PDF), Open PDF file, 156.73 KB
(English, PDF 156.73 KB)
2025-02: Definitions (PDF), Open PDF file, 155.33 KB
(English, PDF 155.33 KB)
2024-05: Schedules II and III Quantity Limits (PDF), Open PDF file, 102.43 KB
(English, PDF 102.43 KB)
2024-04: Defective Drug Preparations (PDF), Open PDF file, 108.2 KB
(English, PDF 108.2 KB)
2024-01 Naloxone Dispensing (PDF), Open PDF file, 178.06 KB
(English, PDF 178.06 KB)
2023-11: Pharmacy Technician Training and Examinations (PDF), Open PDF file, 93.82 KB
(English, PDF 93.82 KB)
2023-10: Unfilled Prescriptions (PDF), Open PDF file, 127.88 KB
(English, PDF 127.88 KB)
2023-05: Access to Reproductive Health Medications, Open PDF file, 105.54 KB
(English, PDF 105.54 KB)
2023-04: Continuity of Care (PDF), Open PDF file, 95.35 KB
(English, PDF 95.35 KB)
2023-03: COVID-19 Control Measures (PDF), Open PDF file, 159.74 KB
(English, PDF 159.74 KB)
2023-02: Vaccine Administration (PDF), Open PDF file, 246.13 KB
(English, PDF 246.13 KB)
2023-01 Compliance Packaging and Reusable Dose Planners (PDF), Open PDF file, 88.35 KB
(English, PDF 88.35 KB)
2022-07: Automated Pharmacy Systems (PDF), Open PDF file, 137.35 KB
(English, PDF 137.35 KB)
2021-04: Continuing Education (CE) Requirements (PDF), Open PDF file, 260.93 KB
(English, PDF 260.93 KB)
2020-15: Scope of Practice (PDF), Open PDF file, 187.91 KB
(English, PDF 187.91 KB)
2020-08: Expedited Partner Therapy Prescriptions (PDF), Open PDF file, 91.96 KB
(English, PDF 91.96 KB)
2020-05: Refrigerated and Frozen Medication Storage (PDF), Open PDF file, 108.15 KB
(English, PDF 108.15 KB)
2020-03: Canadian Pharmacy School Graduates (PDF), Open PDF file, 91.75 KB
(English, PDF 91.75 KB)
2019-07: Pilot Projects in Pharmacy Practice (PDF), Open PDF file, 81.75 KB
(English, PDF 81.75 KB)
2019-02: Automated Dispensing Device Use (PDF), Open PDF file, 154.28 KB
(English, PDF 154.28 KB)
2018-06: Retail Pharmacy Participation in Research Drug Studies (PDF), Open PDF file, 114.76 KB
(English, PDF 114.76 KB)
2018-01: Permitted Prescription Changes and Additions (PDF), Open PDF file, 110.31 KB
(English, PDF 110.31 KB)
Authorized Generic Dispensing (PDF), Open PDF file, 146.04 KB
(English, PDF 146.04 KB)
Electronic Prescribing and Dispensing Manual (PDF), Open PDF file, 187.23 KB
(English, PDF 187.23 KB)
Hospice Inpatient Facility Acute Use Medications (PDF), Open PDF file, 167.46 KB
(English, PDF 167.46 KB)
Long Term Care Facility Emergency Kits (PDF), Open PDF file, 132.16 KB
(English, PDF 132.16 KB)
Pharmacist Administration of Medications (PDF), Open PDF file, 271.66 KB
(English, PDF 271.66 KB)
Pharmacist Prescribing of Certain Medications, Open PDF file, 298.95 KB
(English, PDF 298.95 KB)
Out-of-State Schedule II Prescriptions and Supervised Prescribing (PDF), Open PDF file, 122.03 KB
(English, PDF 122.03 KB)
Schedule II Partial Fill Requests (PDF), Open PDF file, 182.79 KB
(English, PDF 182.79 KB)
Standing Orders and Other Documents
COVID-19 OTC Diagnostic Test Standing Order (PDF), Open PDF file, 45.12 KB
(English, PDF 45.12 KB)
Guaifenesin with Codeine Products memo, Open PDF file, 101.2 KB
(English, PDF 101.2 KB)
Naloxone Standing Order, Open PDF file, 135.79 KB
(English, PDF 135.79 KB)
Opioid Prescription Drug Fact Sheet, Open PDF file, 115.87 KB
(English, PDF 115.87 KB)
Oral Contraceptive Standing Order, Open PDF file, 208.84 KB
(English, PDF 208.84 KB)
Prenatal Vitamin Standing Order, Open PDF file, 186.34 KB
(English, PDF 186.34 KB)
Promethazine with Codeine Products memo, Open PDF file, 53.46 KB
(English, PDF 53.46 KB)
Standing Order for Pharmacies Administration of COVID-19 Vaccine: 2026-27, Open PDF file, 446.24 KB
(English, PDF 446.24 KB)
Standing Order for Pharmacies Administration of Influenza Vaccine: 2026-27, Open PDF file, 446.95 KB
(English, PDF 446.95 KB)
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