Iowa Admin. Code r. 657-5.5 - [Rescinded effective 7/16/2025] Exempt from registration
The following shall be exempt from registration as a pharmacy support person:
1. A licensed
pharmacist, registered pharmacist-intern, or registered pharmacy
technician.
2. Facility maintenance
personnel including but not necessarily limited to cleaning, sanitation,
structural, and mechanical maintenance personnel. Facility maintenance
personnel deemed exempt from registration shall be directly supervised by a
pharmacist or a certified pharmacy technician who is responsible for the
maintenance person's activities within the pharmacy department to ensure
medication security and patient privacy.
3. Any person not directly employed by or
under contract to the pharmacy, and not under the direct supervision of a
pharmacist, who provides data processing, data processing support, programming,
maintenance, billing, delivery, or administrative support functions outside the
pharmacy department.
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The following shall be exempt from registration as a
1. A licensed pharmacist, registered pharmacist-intern, or registered pharmacy technician .
2. Facility maintenance personnel including but not necessarily limited to cleaning, sanitation, structural, and mechanical maintenance personnel. Facility maintenance personnel deemed exempt from registration shall be directly supervised by a pharmacist or a certified pharmacy technician who is responsible for the maintenance person's activities within the pharmacy department to ensure medication security and patient privacy.
3. Any person not directly employed by or under contract to the pharmacy, and not under the direct supervision of a pharmacist, who provides data processing, data processing support, programming, maintenance, billing, delivery , or administrative support functions outside the pharmacy department.