On Tuesday, Mr. Ashcroft, declaring that assisted suicide is not a "legitimate medical purpose" for prescribing or dispensing medication, authorized federal drug agents to revoke the license of any doctor acting under terms of the law here, who prescribed lethal drugs for their patients.
Federal law bars nonlicensed team personnel, such as athletic trainers, from dispensing medication.
Six days into the walkout, Dr. Cimino made an emergency visit to the Sephardic Home for the Aged in Brooklyn — the only center where nurses were among the strikers — and discovered that nonprofessionals were involved in dispensing medication to patients.
Electronic pills have been used for diagnostic applications such as imaging, but the iPill from Philips Research, designed to treat gastrointestinal disorders, goes a step further, dispensing medication at a location and rate programmed by a physician.
These "family caregivers" do work that is complex, physically challenging and critical to a patient's overall well-being, like dressing wounds, dispensing medication, and feeding, bathing and dressing those who can no longer do so themselves.
The school's principal, Alyce Barr, said she had been told that the center could stay open under different management, and that is a relief because its services — from dispensing medication to psychological counseling to, yes, treating a principal's case of whooping cough — were essential.
Date of dispensing medications was known, but we did not know whether the dispensed drugs were actually used, or exactly when they were used.
Dispensing medications was one of the jobs he liked.
Recovering at home means no more hospital staff dispensing medications, taking vital signs or watching for worrisome symptoms.
It developed automated technology for ordering and dispensing medications and distributing them to hospital patients, thereby reducing loss and theft, improving accuracy, and maximizing data capture.
Registered pharmacists are not the only professionals with the legal right and responsibility of dispensing medications.
