(a) The facility must provide pharmaceutical services under the responsibility and direction of the consultant pharmacist and the director of nursing.
(b) The facility must ensure that notes on the monthly visits by the consulting pharmacist are entered in the resident's clinical record.
(c) The number of hours per month the consultant pharmacist devotes to the pharmaceutical services for ordering, storage, administration, disposal, recordkeeping (documentation) of drugs and medications, and drug regimen review must be sufficient to meet the needs of the residents.
(d) A record of consultant pharmacist services, consultations, and recommendations for pharmacy procedure must be maintained at the facility.

Source Note: The provisions of this §554.1503 adopted to be effective May 1, 1995, 20 TexReg 2054; transferred effective January 15, 2021, as published in the Texas Register December 11, 2020, 45 TexReg 8871