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Board initiates rulemaking to clarify technician roles in hospitals and preserve tech‑check‑tech programs
Summary
Following presentations from major hospital systems, the board moved to initiate rulemaking to amend CCR §17.93.8 to allow PICs in hospitals to specify additional nondiscretionary and discretionary tasks for technicians and to preserve existing 'tech‑check‑tech' programs through clarified language.
After reviewing presentations from Stanford Health Care, Cedars‑Sinai, UCSD Health and Kaiser Permanente, the Board of Pharmacy initiated rulemaking to amend CCR §17.93.8 to incorporate changes recognizing the evolving role of pharmacy technicians in hospitals with clinical pharmacy programs.
Board members said hospital presentations demonstrated that technicians increasingly…
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