West Virginia Code 30-5-11a – Pharmacy technician trainee qualifications
(a) To be eligible for registration as a pharmacy technician trainee to assist in the practice of pharmacist care, the applicant shall:
Terms Used In West Virginia Code 30-5-11a
- Board: means the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy. See West Virginia Code 30-5-4
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Drug: means :
(A) Articles recognized as drugs by the United States Food and Drug Administration, or in any official compendium, or supplement. See West Virginia Code 30-5-4
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Pharmacist: means an individual currently licensed by this state to engage in the practice of pharmacist care. See West Virginia Code 30-5-4
- Pharmacist Care: means the provision by a pharmacist of patient care activities, with or without the dispensing of drugs or devices, intended to achieve outcomes related to the cure or prevention of a disease, elimination, or reduction of a patient's symptoms, or arresting or slowing of a disease process and as provided for in section ten. See West Virginia Code 30-5-4
- Pharmacy: means any place within this state where drugs are dispensed and pharmacist care is provided and any place outside of this state where drugs are dispensed and pharmacist care is provided to residents of this state. See West Virginia Code 30-5-4
- Pharmacy Technician: means a person registered with the board to practice certain tasks related to the practice of pharmacist care as permitted by the board. See West Virginia Code 30-5-4
- State: when applied to a part of the United States and not restricted by the context, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" also include the said district and territories. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
(1) Submit a written application to the board;
(2) Pay the applicable fees;
(3) (A) Have graduated from a high school or obtained a Certificate of General Educational Development (GED), or
(B) Be currently enrolled in a high school competency based pharmacy technician education and training program;
(4) (A) Be currently enrolled in a competency-based pharmacy technician education and training program of a learning institution or training center approved by the board; or
(B) Be an employee of a pharmacy in an on-the-job competency-based pharmacy technician training program.
(5) Not be an alcohol or drug abuser as these terms are defined in section 11, article one-a, chapter twenty-seven of this code: Provided, That an applicant in an active recovery process, which may, in the discretion of the board, be evidenced by participation in a twelve-step program or other similar group or process, may be considered;
(6) Not have been convicted of a felony in any jurisdiction within ten years preceding the date of application for registration, which conviction remains unreversed;
(7) Not have been convicted of a misdemeanor or felony in any jurisdiction which bears a rational nexus to the practice of pharmacist care, which conviction remains unreversed; and
(8) Have requested and submitted to the board the results of a fingerprint-based state and a national electronic criminal history records check.
(b) The rules, authorized duties and unauthorized prohibitions as set out in section twelve of this article for pharmacy technicians apply to pharmacy technician trainees.
(c) The board shall promulgate an emergency rule and legislative rule pursuant article two, chapter twenty-nine-a, to authorize the requirements of this section to permit pharmacy technician trainees.