NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 627
HOUSE BILL 973

AN ACT TO LIMIT THE PRESCRIBING, COMPOUNDING AND DISPENSING OF DRUGS BY CERTAIN PERSONS APPROVED BY THE NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS AND THE NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF PHARMACY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Chapter 90 of the North Carolina General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read as follows:
"§ 90-18.1.  Limitation on physician's assistants and registered nurses authorized to prescribe, compound and dispense drugs. — Any registered nurse or assistant to a physician who is approved to perform medical acts under the provisions of G.S. 90-18 is authorized to prescribe drugs under written standing orders of the supervising physician, if such function is specifically approved for that person by the Board of Medical Examiners; in accordance with such other safeguards and regulations as promulgated by such board.
Any such person authorized to prescribe drugs shall be identified by a number assigned by the Board of Medical Examiners and such number shall be indicated in all prescriptions both oral and written.
Any such person is authorized to compound and dispense drugs when such functions are performed under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist in a manner prescribed by rules and regulations adopted by the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1975.