A nonresident pharmacy shall obtain, record, and maintain pertinent patient information. The pharmacy shall provide patients a written offer to consult and access to a tollfree telephone service to facilitate communications between the patient and the pharmacist at the pharmacy. The number of the tollfree telephone service shall be printed on a label affixed to each container of a prescription drug dispensed by the pharmacy to a patient. The tollfree telephone service shall be available for a minimum of six days a week and forty hours a week.

In addition, a nonresident pharmacy shall provide the patient written information about the medication on all new or changed prescriptions. The information shall include directions for storage and use, precautions and relevant warnings about drug interactions and common side effects, and directions for patient action if the patient misses a scheduled dose of the prescription.

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 36-11-19.8

  • written: include typewriting and typewritten, printing and printed, except in the case of signatures, and where the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2

Source: SL 1997, ch 217, § 7.