Filed as: South Dakota Board of Pharmacy
The Board of Pharmacy has updated its licensing terminology and adjusted key requirements for pharmacists, interns, and wholesalers. Pharmacists will now be "licensed" rather than "registered," and the required practical experience hours for licensure have been reduced from two thousand hours (with a college-based component) to one thousand six hundred hours total. Pharmacy wholesalers will see a fee increase, and the rules eliminate the requirement for automated e-kits in nursing facilities to be separately licensed. Additionally, pharmacy technician certification is now optional except for those administering vaccinations or working in telepharmacy settings, though technicians working in telepharmacy must meet updated hour requirements.
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The effect of the rules will be to provide for a fee increase for wholesalers, remove the requirement for automated e-kits in nursing facilities to be licensed, remove the certification requirement to work as a pharmacy technician except for vaccination or working in a telepharmacy, changes the technician hours required to work in a telepharmacy, update wording, and references.
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