Attorney General Opinion No.

Tom C. Hitchcock Executive Secretary Kansas State Board of Pharmacy Landon State Office Bldg., Room 513 Topeka, Kansas 66612

Dear Mr. Hitchcock:

You request our opinion as to whether a "practitioner" licensed by the board of healing arts may delegate the function of preparation, compounding and dispensing of "prescription-only drugs" to a nurse or other personnel employed by the practitioner, and if delegation is not allowed, who has a jurisdiction to sanction a nurse and/or a physician for improper delegation.

As you are aware, we issued opinions on this subject in 1980 and 1981, stating that…