- In these instances, a paper, facsimile (fax), or telephone prescription may be issued to the patient.
- Some examples of this may be:
- a prescription requiring a pharmacist to compound two or more products; a prescription for direct administration to a patient by parenteral, intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous, or intraspinal infusion;
- a prescription bearing long or complicated directions;
- a prescription in which the federal Food and Drug Administration requires the inclusion of certain elements;
- a prescription transmitted orally to a pharmacist by a health care practitioner for a patient in a chronic and convalescent nursing home.
- The prescriber is encouraged to document the reason for a paper, facsimile (fax), or telephone prescription on the paper prescription provided to the patient or pharmacy.
