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

Section 84 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

84. Under the control of the executive director, the head of the pharmacy service or the pharmacist shall perform the following duties:

(1)  provide pharmaceutical services and manage the resources;

(2)  draw up and enforce rules for the preparation, distribution and control of the use of medications, drugs and poisons in the centre;

(3)  inform the physician in charge of medical care or the medical service and the executive director of any breach of the rules for the use of medications or of the procedures governing the issuing and filling of prescriptions in the centre;

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

(5)  check the use of medications in the centre in particular through subsequent examination of beneficiary’s records and through verification of the use of medications.

The head of the pharmacy service or the pharmacist shall also exercise the following functions, under the authority of the executive director and after consultation with the council of physicians, dentists and pharmacists, with the physician in charge of medical care or of the medical service, as the case may be, and with the director of nursing, the head of the nursing service or the person in charge of nursing care, as the case may be:

(1)  prepare rules for using medications and the procedures governing the issue and filling of prescriptions in the centre, particularly with respect to the criteria for recognition of a prescription, and for dictated prescriptions;

(2)  select the medications for current use in the centre from the list under the first paragraph of section 150 of the Act in terms of their generic names, their strength and their pharmaceutical form;

(3)  (paragraph revoked).

O.C. 1320-84, s. 84; O.C. 545-86, s. 35; O.C. 9-87, s. 3; O.C. 375-88, ss. 1, 16 and 17.