A written prescription for a medicinal drug issued by a health care practitioner licensed by law to prescribe such drug must be legibly printed or typed so as to be capable of being understood by the pharmacist filling the prescription; must contain the name of the prescribing practitioner, the name and strength of the drug prescribed, the quantity of the drug prescribed in both textual and numerical formats, and the directions for use of the drug; must be dated with the month written out in textual letters; and must be signed by the prescribing practitioner on the day when issued.
This post is to repeat my request for correction of the Florida prescription format in AC. In 2009, the law was broadened to include all prescriptions, so the number dispensed, number refilled and the date must all be written out both in text and numbers. So now I get a couple calls a week from pharmacies saying that prescriptions printed by Amazing Charts are out of compliance.
