Sec. 3. An employee of a home health agency who is a licensed pharmacist, registered nurse, or licensed practical nurse may purchase, store, or transport the following drugs in order to administer to a home health patient or hospice patient of the home health agency, in accordance with section 5 of this chapter:
(1) Any of the following items in a sealed portable container in a size determined by the dispensing pharmacist:
(A) Up to one thousand (1,000) milliliters of nine-tenths of one percent (0.9%) sodium chloride intravenous infusion.
(B) Up to one thousand (1,000) milliliters of five percent (5%) dextrose in water injection.
(2) Not more than five (5) dosage units of each of the following items, each in an individually sealed, unused container:
(A) Heparin sodium lock flush in a concentration of ten (10) units per milliliter, one hundred (100) units per milliliter, or one thousand (1,000) units per milliliter.
(B) Epinephrine HC1 solution in a concentration of one (1) to one thousand (1,000).
(C) Diphenhydramine HCl solution in a concentration of fifty (50) milligrams per milliliter.
(D) Methylprednisolone in a concentration of one hundred twenty-five (125) milligrams per two (2) milliliters.
(E) Naloxone in a concentration of up to one (1) milligram per milliliter in a two (2) milliliter vial.
(F) Glucagon in a concentration of one (1) milligram per milliliter.
(G) Furosemide in a concentration of ten (10) milligrams per milliliter.
(H) Lidocaine two and one-half percent (2.5%) and prilocaine two and one-half percent (2.5%) cream in a five (5) gram tube.
(I) Lidocaine HCl solution in a concentration of one percent (1%) in a two (2) milliliter vial.
(J) Urokinase five thousand (5,000) units per a one (1) milliliter vial.
As added by P.L.105-1998, SEC.2.
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