Pharmacy manager State Law Requirements

As a Pharmacy Manager, you must be able to explain state lawrequirements to your staff. While pharmacists are generally familiarwith the state laws, the Pharmacy Technicians may not be clear oncertain topics. Consequently, you will need to add content to yourpolicy/procedure explaining key laws that Pharmacy Technicians will needto know and apply on a daily basis. The transferable skills that youwill demonstrate with this assignment are information literacy, ethics,and professional responsibility.

In preparation for this:

Research and summarize your state laws regarding the duties of a Pharmacy Technician.
Explain how the state laws align with the ethical conduct requiredby pharmacy employers. Why are they important for demonstratingprofessional ethical practices? Discuss the consequences to the employerand customer of demonstrating unethical practices.

Write your findings in an APA formatted paper that is a minimum of2-pages in length. Be sure to include an APA formatted reference pagecontaining a minimum of 3 credible sources, with 2 being academic (suchas an academic journal). Use a minimum of 3 in-text citations withproper formatting.

A note about credible sources: Credible sourcesare reliable, accurate, and trustworthy. These sources are written byauthors respected in their fields of study. You want to identify sourceswhere the author of the article is listed, if they’ve referenced otherinformation, the sources should be cited so that you can check for theaccuracy of and support what they have written.
Wikipedia is not considered a credible source. For more information on credible sources, please visit the Rasmussen Online Library.

You are encouraged to investigate the following resources:

Board of Pharmacy in your state
Rasmussen online library:
- Health Policy Reference Center via EBSCO
- Health Sciences and Nursing via ProQuest – Pharmaceutical News Index’

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.