# Title 61 — State Board of Pharmacy

## Article 61-03 — Pharmacists

## Chapter 61-03-04 — Continuing Pharmaceutical Education

### § 61-03-04-01. Definitions.

1. Continuing pharmaceutical education is a planned learning experience beyond a formal
degree program designed to promote the continual development of professional knowledge,
professional skills, and professional attitudes on the part of the practitioners and includes, but
is not limited to, professional postgraduate education in any of the following subjects:
a. Properties and actions of drugs and drug dosage forms.
b. Etiology, characteristics, and therapeutics of the disease state.
c. Pharmacy practice.
d. Legal, psychological, and socioeconomic aspects of health care delivery.
2. One continuing education unit (c.e.u.) equals ten hours of instruction.
History: Effective April 1, 1986.
General Authority: NDCC 28-32-02, 43-15-10(12)(14), 43-15-25.1
Law Implemented: NDCC 28-32-03, 43-15-10(12)(14), 43-15-25.1
### § 61-03-04-02. Requirements for continuing pharmaceutical education.

1. Each pharmacist shall complete at least fifteen hours (1.5 c.e.u.) of approved continuing
pharmaceutical education every year as a condition of renewal of a certificate of licensure as
a pharmacist in the state of North Dakota.
2. There may be no carryover or extension of continuing education units with the exception that
continuing education units obtained twelve months prior to the beginning of each annual
reporting period which begins March first of each year and ends the last day of February, may
be used in the current annual reporting period or the previous reporting period. However, they
may not be counted as credit in both reporting periods. The failure to obtain the required
fifteen hours of continuing education by the renewal date may result in a suspension for the
minimum of thirty days or a maximum of the period ending the date the continuing education
is completed.
3. Pharmacists shall maintain their own records. The records shall be maintained for a two-year
period.
4. The requirements of this section do not apply to a pharmacist applying for a first renewal of a
certificate of licensure.
5. A pharmacist holding a certificate of licensure from the board may make application to the
board for a waiver of compliance with the continuing pharmaceutical education requirements
and may be granted an exemption by the board. No pharmacist holding such an exemption
may practice pharmacy in North Dakota until reinstated by the board after completing fifteen
hours of continuing pharmaceutical education (one and one-half c.e.u.) during the year before
reinstatement.

6. Upon request of the board, proof of compliance must be furnished to the board.
History: Effective April 1, 1986; amended effective January 1, 2005; January 1, 2010; October 1, 2019.
General Authority: NDCC 28-32-02, 43-15-10(12)(14), 43-15-25.1
Law Implemented: NDCC 28-32-03, 43-15-10(12)(14), 43-15-25.1
### § 61-03-04-03. Approved continuing education.

1. Approved continuing pharmaceutical education means those continuing pharmaceutical
education programs made available by an approved provider. Postgraduate courses offered
by a school or college of pharmacy recognized by the board as an approved school shall
constitute approved continuing pharmaceutical education. The board shall maintain a record
of approved programs including the hours of credit assigned to each program which shall be
available upon request.
2. Approved provider means any association, corporation, educational institution, organization,
or person who has been recognized by the American council on pharmaceutical education in
accordance with its policy and procedure, as having met its criteria indicative of the ability to
provide quality continuing pharmaceutical education programs.
History: Effective April 1, 1986.
General Authority: NDCC 28-32-02, 43-15-10(12)(14), 43-15-25.1
Law Implemented: NDCC 28-32-03, 43-15-10(12)(14), 43-15-25.1
### § 61-03-04-04. Advisory council on continuing pharmaceutical education.

Repealed effective October 1, 2019.
