657—5.1 (155A) Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
“Board” means the Iowa board of pharmacy.
“Delivery” means the transport and conveyance of a finished, securely packaged prescription order to the patient or the patient’s agent.
“Direct access” means physical access, without direct supervision by a pharmacist, to opened, unpackaged, or unsecured stock containers or prescription vials containing prescription drugs.
“Pharmacy clerk” means a person whose duties within the pharmacy department include accessing filled prescription orders and processing payments for and delivering such orders to the patient or the patient’s agent under the supervision of a pharmacist.
“Pharmacy support person” means a person, other than a licensed pharmacist, a registered pharmacist-intern, or a registered pharmacy technician, who may perform nontechnical duties assigned by a supervising pharmacist under the pharmacist’s responsibility and supervision.
“Pharmacy technician”  or “technician”  means a person who is employed in Iowa by a licensed pharmacy under the responsibility of an Iowa-licensed pharmacist to assist in the technical functions of the practice of pharmacy, and who is registered pursuant to 657—Chapter 3, and includes a certified pharmacy technician, a pharmacy technician trainee, and an uncertified pharmacy technician.
“Secure package” means the prescription order is enclosed in tamper-evident packaging. An IV bag is considered tamper-evident packaging.
“Supervising pharmacist” means an Iowa-licensed pharmacist who is on duty in an Iowa-licensed pharmacy and who is responsible for assigning and supervising the duties performed by a pharmacy support person.
[ARC 8673B, IAB 4/7/10, effective 6/1/10; ARC 9009B, IAB 8/11/10, effective 7/23/10]