1. 'Prescription' means: (a) An order given individually for the person for whom prescribed, directly from the practitioner to a pharmacist or indirectly by means of an order signed by the practitioner or by an electronic transmission from the practitioner to a pharmacist. (b) A chart order written for an inpatient specifying drugs which the inpatient is to take home upon discharge. 2. The term does not include a chart order written for an inpatient for use while he or she is an inpatient. (Added to NRS by 1967, 1652; A 1973, 774; 1979, 343, 1684; 1987, 1650; 1991, 1948)
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