New Jersey Statutes 45:14-68. Patient profile system
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 45:14-68
- Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
b. The following information generated or transferred to the individual pharmacy practice site shall be recorded in the patient profile system:
(1) The family and the first name of the person for whom the medication is intended (the patient);
(2) The street address and telephone number of the patient;
(3) Indication of the patient’s age, birth date or age group (infant, child, adult) and gender;
(4) The height, weight and other patient specific criteria for those medications that are height or weight dose dependent;
(5) The original or refill date the medication is dispensed and the initials of the dispensing pharmacist, if those initials and date are not recorded on the original prescription or in any other record approved by the board;
(6) The number or designation identifying the prescription;
(7) The practitioner’s name;
(8) The name, strength and quantity of the drug dispensed;
(9) The individual history, if significant, including known allergies and drug reactions, known diagnosed disease states and a comprehensive list of medications and relevant devices; and
(10) Any additional comments relevant to the patient’s drug use, which may include any failure to accept the pharmacist’s offer to counsel.
c. The information obtained shall be recorded in the patient’s manual or electronic profile, or in the prescription signature log, or in any other system of records, and may be considered by the pharmacist in the exercise of his professional judgment concerning both the offer to counsel and content of counseling. The absence of any record of a failure to accept the pharmacist’s offer to counsel shall be presumed to signify that the offer was accepted and that the counseling was provided.
L.2003,c.280,s.29.