La. Admin. Code tit. 46 § LIII-705

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section LIII-705 - Professional Experience

A. All applicants for licensure by examination shall earn professional experience in the practice of pharmacy concurrent with attending or after graduation from a board-approved college of pharmacy.

B. The practical experience shall be predominantly related to the provision of pharmacy primary care and the dispensing of drugs and medical supplies, the compounding of prescriptions, and the keeping of records and making of reports as required under federal and state law.

1. The practical experience earned shall have been under the supervision of a pharmacist, or in the alternative, a licensed practitioner.

2. A pharmacy intern shall not practice in a permitted pharmacy site that is on probation with the board. A pharmacy intern shall not practice under the supervision of a pharmacist or other licensed practitioner whose license is on probation with their primary professional licensing agency.

C. Professional Experience Hours. To qualify for pharmacist licensure, an intern shall supply evidence of the acquisition of at least 1,740 hours of professional experience, of which at least 1,500 hours of which shall be practical experience as described in Subsection B above.

1. The board shall award 1,740 hours credit to an intern for his successful completion of a professional experience curriculum at a board-approved college of pharmacy. The dean of the board-approved college of pharmacy shall certify the completion of this requirement in the manner prescribed by the board office.

2. In the event an applicant for pharmacist licensure by examination is unable to document the acquisition of 1,740 hours of professional experience through the successful completion of a professional experience curriculum at a board-approved college of pharmacy by means of an attestation from the dean of that college, then the applicant shall demonstrate the acquisition of at least 1,740 hours of pre-licensure practical experience in a licensed pharmacy, subject to the following limitations.

a. The pharmacy permit shall not have been on probation or otherwise restricted during the time the hours were earned.

b. The license of the pharmacist supervising the intern and signing the affidavit shall have been issued no less than two years before supervising the intern, and further, shall not have been on probation or otherwise restricted during the time the hours were earned.

3. Practical experience hours that are submitted to the board for credit consideration (other than those attested to by the dean of the college of pharmacy for the successful completion of a professional experience curriculum at a board-approved college of pharmacy) shall be listed on an affidavit form supplied by the board office, and signed by the supervising pharmacist and pharmacy intern.

a. A pharmacy intern may receive credit for a maximum of 50 hours per week.

b. A separate affidavit shall be required from each permitted pharmacy site.

c. No credit shall be awarded for hours earned within the professional experience curriculum of a board-approved college of pharmacy, nor for hours earned outside the professional experience curriculum but at the same time and location as hours earned for that professional experience curriculum.

4. Certification of Hours to and from another Jurisdiction

a. Interns enrolled in a board-approved college of pharmacy in Louisiana who earn hours of professional experience in another jurisdiction, as well as interns enrolled in a board-approved college of pharmacy in another jurisdiction who earn hours of professional experience in another jurisdiction, may transfer those hours to Louisiana under the following conditions:

i. The hours of practical experience shall be listed on an affidavit form supplied by the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy, signed by the supervising pharmacist and the intern, and submitted to the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy for consideration of credit; and

ii. The board of pharmacy in the jurisdiction where the hours were earned shall certify those hours to the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy.

iii. The Louisiana Board of Pharmacy may grant credit for all hours that comply with the Louisiana Board of Pharmacys requirements as delineated in this section.

b. Upon written request by the pharmacy intern, the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy may certify professional experience hours earned in Louisiana to a board of pharmacy in another jurisdiction.

5. Credited hours of experience shall expire two years after the expiration date of the intern registration and shall no longer be valid for licensure purposes.

La. Admin. Code tit. 46, § LIII-705

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Board of Pharmacy, LR 26:2285 (October 2000), amended LR 29:2086 (October 2003), effective January 1, 2004, LR 32:636 (April 2006), LR 32:2256 (December 2006), LR 33:1130 (June 2007), LR 34:1409 (July 2008), Amended by the Department of Health, Board of Pharmacy, LR 432163 (11/1/2017).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:1211.