S-5, r. 5 - Organization and Management of Institutions Regulation

Section 77 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

77. Subject to the control of the director of professional services of the hospital centre, the head of the pharmacy department or the pharmacist shall:

(1)  coordinate the professional activities of the pharmacists in his department and manage the resources of his department;

(2)  lay down and enforce policies for preparing, distributing and controlling the use of medications, drugs and poisons in the hospital centre;

(3)  inform the council of physicians, dentists and pharmacists and the director of professional services of any breach of the rules for using medications or of the procedures governing the issuing and filling of prescriptions in the hospital centre;

(4)  instruct the members of the clinical staff and the beneficiaries of the hospital centre on the rules for using medications;

(5)  select, after consulting the committee of pharmacology, medications for current use in the hospital centre from the list under section 150 of the Act and in terms of their common generic names, their strength and their pharmaceutical form.

Under the control of the council of physicians, dentists and pharmacists, he shall prepare rules for using medications and the procedures governing the issue and filling of prescriptions in the hospital centre, particularly with respect to the criteria for recognition of a prescription, including verbal prescriptions.

O.C. 1320-84, s. 77; O.C. 375-88, ss. 1, 16 to 18; O.C. 130-89, s. 2; O.C. 863-90, s. 2.