{"data":{"id":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-30-5-12","jurisdiction":"us-wv","citation":"W. Va. Code § 30-5-12","heading":"Scope practice for registered pharmacy technician.","body":"(a) A registered pharmacy technician shall, under the direct supervision of the licensed pharmacist, perform at a minimum the following:\n(1) Assist in the dispensing process;\n(2) Receive new written or electronic prescription drug orders;\n(3) Compound;\n(4) Stock medications;\n(5) Complete a list of a patient’s current prescription and nonprescription medications to provide for medication reconciliation;\n(6) Supervise registered pharmacy technicians and pharmacy technician trainees;\n(7) Medical records screening;\n(8) Administer immunizations, as provided by legislative rule; and\n(9) Perform pharmacy technician product verification, where no clinical judgment is necessary and the pharmacist makes the final verification; if the registered pharmacy technician furnishes to the Board an affidavit signed and dated by the supervising pharmacist-in-charge of the facility which will employee the applicant attesting to the applicant’s competency in the advanced areas of practice that he or she will practice; and has either:\n(A) Worked as a full-time registered pharmacy technician holding a pharmacy technician endorsement in West Virginia for at least the previous two years; or\n(B) Worked as a full-time registered pharmacy technician holding a pharmacy technician license in good standing in another jurisdiction for at least the previous two years.\n(b) A registered pharmacy technician may perform the following under indirect supervision of a licensed pharmacist:\n(1) Process medical coverage claims; and\n(2) Cashier.\n(c) A registered pharmacy technician may not perform the following:\n(1) Drug regimen review;\n(2) Clinical conflict resolution;\n(3) Contact a prescriber concerning prescription drug order clarification or therapy modification;\n(4) Patient counseling;\n(5) Dispense process validation;\n(6) Prescription transfer;\n(7) Receive new oral prescription drug orders;\n(8) An act within the practice of pharmacist care that involves discretion or independent professional judgment; or\n(9) A function which the registrant has not been trained and the function has not been specified in a written protocol with competency established.\n(d) Indirect supervision of a registered pharmacy technician is permitted to allow a pharmacist to take one break of no more than 30 minutes during any contiguous eight-hour period. The pharmacist may leave the pharmacy area but may not leave the building during the break. When a pharmacist is on break, a pharmacy technician may continue to prepare prescriptions for the pharmacist(s verification. A prescription may not be delivered until the pharmacist has verified the accuracy of the prescription, and counseling, if required, has been provided to or refused by the patient.\n(e) A pharmacy that permits indirect supervision of a pharmacy technician during a pharmacist(s break shall have either an interactive voice response system or a voice mail system installed on the pharmacy phone line in order to receive new prescription orders and refill authorizations during the break.\n(f) The pharmacy shall establish protocols that require a registered pharmacy technician to interrupt the pharmacist’s break if an emergency arises.\n(g) A registered pharmacy technician who has obtained a nuclear pharmacy technician endorsement, may under the direct supervision of the licensed nuclear pharmacist, perform the following:\n(1) Assist in the dispensing process;\n(2) Receive new written or electronic prescription drug orders;\n(3) Mix compound ingredients for liquid products, suspensions, ointments, mixes, or blend for tablet granulations and capsule powders;\n(4) Prepare radiopharmaceuticals;\n(5) Record keeping;\n(6) File and organize prescriptions;\n(7) Create reports;\n(8) Inventory tasks;\n(9) Handle raw materials and intermediate or finished products;\n(10) Perform general maintenance as required on pumps, homogenizers, filter presses, tablet compression machines, and other like machines;\n(11) Perform standard operating procedures to meet current good manufacturing practices (GMP);\n(12) Maintain records;\n(13) Monitor and verify quality in accordance with statistical process or other control procedures; and\n(14) Stock medications.\n(h) A registered pharmacy technician who has obtained a nuclear pharmacy technician endorsement may not perform the following:\n(1) Drug regimen review;\n(2) Clinical conflict resolution;\n(3) Contact a prescriber concerning prescription drug order clarification or therapy modification;\n(4) Receive new oral prescription drug orders.","path":["CHAPTER 30. PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS.","ARTICLE 5. PHARMACISTS, PHARMACY TECHNICIANS, PHARMACY INTERNS AND PHARMACIES."],"source_url":"https://code.wvlegislature.gov/30-5-12/","current_through":"as of 2026-08-03; contains at least the enactments of the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T00:27:09Z","sha256":"ce9865665ad19610c5086cdb6405fc4970301940ee29cf591bba7f719346ee22","source_id":"us-wv","stale":true,"prev":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-30-5-11a","next":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-30-5-12a"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}