The goal of this course is to help the learner to understand the laws that apply to filling prescriptions for animals, and to provide resources for finding answers to veterinary pharmacy situations.
Learning Objectives:
- To cover the legal regulations for dispensing and record keeping of controlled substances
- Discuss the new changes in food animal antimicrobial drugs from OTC to Rx
- Audit your current practices for inspections of your drug inventory
- Understand the legal ramifications of compounding
- Review new drug dosages forms and extra-label use
- Review what is legal for technicians to do when handling medications
Why Should You Attend:
This is an extensive review of federal laws that are recommended for pharmacists and veterinarians who practice veterinary medicine. Controlled substance regulations will be covered in detail as well as prescription ordering, writing and dispensing rules and regulations.
New changes of drugs for food animals from OTC to prescription will also be covered in this education program. Compounding guidelines and legal ramifications of dispensing human drugs to animals will be discussed in detail. The speaker has given over 400 lectures in veterinary pharmacy law and pharmacology over the past 25 years as a veterinary pharmacist that practices at a university veterinary college.
Topics
- Laws, regulations, and litigation with the Drug Enforcement Administration
- How to document record keeping of controlled drugs
- References needed for pharmacist to practice in a pharmacy dispensing veterinary medications
- Handling extra-label prescriptions
- Review species differences in drugs
Instructor
Dr. Sue Hudson Duran is a professor at Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine and Adjunct Clinical Professor, Harrison School of Pharmacy, Auburn, Alabama. She has experience as a GMP pharmacist in pharmaceuticals, biologicals, nutraceuticals and food.
She is an active member of the Auburn Food Systems Institute. She has been the safety officer at the College of Veterinary Medicine since 2000, serving to educate medical professionals in safe handling of drugs. In addition she has worked on development of several infectious disease safety protocols.
She worked with several other professionals at Auburn to develop an occupational safety program for animal handlers. She was the supervisor of the intravenous admixture department at Johns Hopkins Hospital early in her career and has continued to attend seminars and training certifications in sterile product compounding and hazardous drug safety.
Dr. Duran has been on the FDA advisory committee for veterinary medicine and work on development of several standard operating procedures for pedigree of drugs and safety protocols.