639.2589 - Form for prescription; substitution in certain facilities; prescriptions ordered on patient’s chart. - Nevada Statutes

639.2589  Form for prescription; substitution in certain facilities; prescriptions ordered on patient’s chart.

      1.  The form used for any prescription which is issued or intended to be filled in this state must contain a line for the signature of the practitioner.

      2.  Substitutions may be made in filling prescriptions contained in the orders of a physician, or of an advanced practitioner of nursing who is a practitioner, in a facility for skilled nursing or facility for intermediate care.

      3.  Substitutions may be made in filling prescriptions ordered on a patient’s chart in a hospital if the hospital’s medical staff has approved a formulary for specific generic substitutions.

      (Added to NRS by 1979, 1348; A 1981, 393; 1983, 1511; 1985, 1769, 2005; 1991, 793; 2003, 1215)