Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 26. FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS · Chapter 4. PHARMACISTS AND PHARMACIES · Article 13. SAFE MEDICATIONS PRACTICE

26-4-214. Role of State Board of Pharmacy and Georgia Composite Medical Board in establishing rules and regulations.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

(a)
The State Board of Pharmacy shall establish rules and regulations governing a hospital pharmacist acting pursuant to Code Section 26-4-213 in the provision of drug therapy management in institutions in consultation or collaboration with physicians. Such rules may include the utilization of a hospital pharmacist’s skills regarding dangerous drugs to promote medication safety. Such rules shall include the ordering of clinical laboratory tests in the institutional setting and the interpretation of results related to medication use when approved by a physician member of the institution’s medical staff for the care and treatment of the ordering physician’s patients or pursuant to a protocol established in accordance with medical staff policy.#
(b)
The Georgia Composite Medical Board shall establish rules and regulations governing a physician acting pursuant to this article.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Code 1981, § 26-4-214, enacted by Ga. L. 2010, p. 195, § 1/HB 361.

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2010, “institution’s” was substituted for “institutions’s” in the last sentence of subsection (a).

Georgia Composite Medical Board, § 43-34-1 et seq.

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Text read from t24-t26-(v21)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V21, 2023 edition, page 616; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 8eab3bec6887.