(a) Responsibility for pharmacy compliance.

1. (1) The administrator shall be responsible for full compliance with federal and state laws governing procurement, control, and administration of all drugs.
2. (2) Full compliance is expected with the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, Pub. L. No. 91-513, and all amendments of this set and all regulations and rulings passed down by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Arkansas Act No. 590, and all amendments to it, and this part.

(b)

1. (1) Each facility shall contract with, or otherwise employ, a consultant pharmacist.
2. (2) For purposes of this part, “consultant pharmacist” means an individual licensed or certified by the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy as a Consultant Pharmacist in Charge.

3. (3) The consultant pharmacist shall, at least quarterly per year:

   1. (A)

(i) Review the methods employed by the facility to store, label, distribute, administer, and safeguard all medication.

1. (ii) The consultant pharmacist shall prepare a written report to the facility detailing:

(b) (b) The recommended alterations to the methods, or additions to the methods, to correct any methods determined by the consultant pharmacist to have the potential to adversely affect the health, safety, or welfare of residents; and

1. (B) Review all orders for medication prescribed since the last review and prepare a report to the facility detailing:

   1. (i) All instances in which medication has been improperly prescribed or administered; and

      1. (ii) Instances in which, in the opinion of the consultant pharmacist, the facility should seek physician review of the number or types of prescribed medications for residents.

2. (4) The facility shall retain the consultant pharmacist’s reports for a period of eighteen (18) months or until the facility review, whichever is the longer period.

   1. (c) Prescriptions on individual basis.
3. (1) All drugs prescribed for each resident shall be on an individual prescription basis.
4. (2) Medications prescribed for one (1) resident shall not be administered to another resident.