Nevada Revised Statutes Section 636.2882 - Professions, Occupations and Businesses

Conditions and limitations on prescribing certain therapeutic pharmaceutical agents. An optometrist who is certified to administer and prescribe a therapeutic pharmaceutical agent pursuant to NRS 636.288 shall not prescribe an analgesic of hydrocodone with compounds, codeine with compounds or propoxyphene with compounds unless he:

1. Has completed an optometric examination of the patient for whom the therapeutic pharmaceutical agent is prescribed;

2. Prescribes the therapeutic pharmaceutical agent in an amount that will not last more than 72 hours; and

3. Sets forth in the prescription for the therapeutic pharmaceutical agent that the prescription may not be refilled.

Last modified: February 27, 2006