639.013 - “Prescription” defined. - Nevada Statutes

639.013  “Prescription” defined.

      1.  “Prescription” means:

      (a) An order given individually for the person for whom prescribed, directly from the practitioner to a pharmacist or indirectly by means of an order signed by the practitioner or by an electronic transmission from the practitioner to a pharmacist.

      (b) A chart order written for an inpatient specifying drugs which the inpatient is to take home upon discharge.

      2.  The term does not include a chart order written for an inpatient for use while he or she is an inpatient.

      (Added to NRS by 1967, 1652; A 1973, 774; 1979, 343, 1684; 1987, 1650; 1991, 1948)