Arkansas Code Title 17. Professions, Occupations, and Businesses § 17-92-602. Definitions

(1) “Hospital” means a hospital as defined in § 20-9-201;

(2) “Hospital employee” means any individual employed by a hospital whose compensation for services or labor actually performed for a hospital is reflected on the payroll records of a hospital;

(3) “Hospital pharmacy” means the place or places in which drugs, chemicals, medicines, prescriptions, or poisons are prepared for distribution and administration for the use or benefit of patients in a hospital. The “hospital pharmacy” may also provide pharmacy services to patients in a “swing bed” within the hospital that may periodically swing back and forth from being a short-term acute hospital bed to a longer-term nursing home bed. The “hospital pharmacy” shall also mean the place or places in which drugs, chemicals, medicines, prescriptions, or poisons are compounded for the dispensing to hospital employees, members of the immediate families of hospital employees, patients being discharged, and for other persons in emergency situations;

(4) “Hospital pharmacy technicians” means persons other than licensed pharmacists who perform duties in conjunction with the overall hospital medication distribution system for inpatients; and

(5) “Licensed pharmacist” means any person licensed to practice pharmacy by the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy.