Section 17-9900. GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

9900.1 This chapter shall apply to applicants for and holders of a registration to practice as a pharmacy technician or pharmacy technician trainee. 

 

9900.2 Chapter 40 (Health Occupations: General Rules) and 41 (Health Occupations: Administrative Procedures) shall supplement this chapter.

 

9900.3 A registered pharmacy technician shall wear a name tag bearing the title “registered pharmacy technician” and display his or her current registration in a conspicuous place in the pharmacy in which he or she is employed.

 

9900.4A pharmacy technician trainee shall not use a title other than pharmacy technician trainee, shall wear a name badge bearing the title “pharmacy technician trainee”, and shall display his or her current registration in a conspicuous place in the pharmacy in which he or she is employed.

 

9900.5Consistent with maintaining patient safety, no pharmacist shall supervise more pharmacy technicians and trainees than he or she can safely supervise. The pharmacist shall be fully responsible for the practice of each technician and trainee during the period of supervision and may be subject to disciplinary action for any violation of the act by a technician or trainee he or she supervises.

 

 

authority

District of Columbia Health Occupations Revision Act of 1985, effective March 25, 1986 (D.C. Law 6-99; D.C. Official Code § 3-1203.02(14) (2012 Repl.)); Mayor’s Order 98-140, dated August 20, 1998; the Pharmacy Technician Amendment Act of 2012, effective May 1, 2013 (D.C. Law 19-0303; D.C. Official Code §§ 3-1207.51 et seq. (2012 Repl. & 2014 Supp.)).

source

Final Rulemaking published at 62 DCR 15117 (November 20, 2015).