{"data":{"id":"us-ny/n.y.-education-law-6842","jurisdiction":"us-ny","citation":"N.Y. Education Law § 6842","heading":"Definitions","body":"§ 6842. Definitions. As used in this article:\n  1. \"Licensed pharmacist\" means a person licensed to practice pharmacy\npursuant to article one hundred thirty-seven of this title.\n  2. \"Pharmacy intern\" means a person practicing under a limited permit\npursuant to section sixty-eight hundred six of this title.\n  3. \"Professional judgment\" means professional decision-making by a\nlicensed pharmacist, including, but not limited to, such activities as:\n  a. interpreting a prescription or medication order for therapeutic\nacceptability and appropriateness or engaging in the calculations behind\nany such formulations;\n  b. interpreting and evaluating a prescription or medication order for\nconformance with legal requirements, authenticity, accuracy and\ninteraction of the prescribed drug with other known prescribed and\nover-the-counter drugs;\n  c. receiving oral prescriptions from prescribers; or\n  d. counseling patients.\n  4. \"Compounding\" means the combining, admixing, mixing, diluting,\npooling, reconstituting, or otherwise altering of a drug or bulk drug\nsubstance to create a drug.\n  5. \"Drugs\", \"pharmacopeia\", \"labeling\" and \"sterile drug\" shall have\nthe same definitions as set forth in section sixty-eight hundred two of\nthis title.","path":["Education Law","Title 8. The Professions","Article 137-A. Registered Pharmacy Technicians"],"source_url":"https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/laws/EDN/6842","current_through":"2026-09-11","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:32:44Z","sha256":"edf6fb3e28439b1aa15350cfd62c40de256edd006468fa596a427df1e6dffb9b","source_id":"us-ny","stale":false,"prev":"us-ny/n.y.-education-law-6841","next":"us-ny/n.y.-education-law-6843"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}