Written Protocol · PharmD
Alaska Written Protocol for Pharmacists
Required. The Written Protocol is the written instrument Alaska law names for a Pharmacist working with a physician. Below: the board that governs it, what it must contain, and the terms it has to carry.
Represents Alaska's Collaborative Practice Agreement (CPA) tier for expanded 'patient care services' (AS 08.80.337), not base dispensing licensure. A narrower scope (immunizations, wellness services, statewide standing orders) is independently authorized without any agreement; broader drug-therapy management is permanently CPA-dependent with no independence pathway.
What a Alaska Written Protocol must contain
Governed by the Alaska Board of Pharmacy. Each numbered item is a statutory requirement the agreement must satisfy.
Alaska does not require the Pharmacist to enter into a collaboration agreement as a condition of general licensure. Rather, AS 08.80.337 permits (but does not require) the Pharmacist to provide certain patient care services, including prescribing and administering drugs and devices, under a written protocol approved by a practitioner. The Parties shall use this Agreement to establish such a protocol only for those specific services the Physician elects to authorize; it does not expand the Pharmacist's authority beyond what the written protocol describes.
Source: Alaska Stat. § 08.80.337
The Physician shall be a practitioner authorized to approve a written protocol under AS 08.80.337. Nothing in this Agreement obligates the Physician to compensate the Pharmacist, or the Pharmacist to compensate the Physician, for services rendered under the protocol.
- The Written Protocol on file also carries 1 scope, 1 education, 1 registration, 1 authority clauses, generated in the document itself.
Statutes and rules cited
- Alaska Stat. § 08.80.337statute
Authorizes a pharmacist to provide patient care services, including prescribing and administering drugs and devices, under a collaborative practice agreement with a written protocol approved by a practitioner; requires the pharmacist to recognize the limits of the pharmacist's education and training. Cited from the Alaska Board of Pharmacy's own published compilation of its statutes and regulations.
Terms it has to carry
Ratio, proximity, chart review, meeting and prescribing terms the agreement has to carry, from the state's supervision rules.
Proximity
Not codified — left to the agreement
Supervision ratio
Not codified — no cap on file
Chart review
Not codified — left to the agreement
Meeting cadence
Not codified — left to the agreement
Prescriptive authority
Separate prescribing terms required · no controlled-substance authority
AS 08.80.337 explicitly states the CPA does not authorize a pharmacist to prescribe a drug they are not otherwise authorized to prescribe — the CPA extends therapy-management authority (initiate/modify/monitor per protocol), not independent scheduled-drug prescribing. No Alaska-specific pharmacist controlled-substance prescriptive authority was found beyond the separately-authorized immunization/emergency-medication carve-out. The CPA itself must be submitted to and approved by the Board of Pharmacy before taking effect.
Written agreement
Required
Required only for the expanded 'patient care services' scope (initiating/modifying/monitoring drug therapy per protocol). The narrower immunization/wellness/standing-order scope is independently authorized without any agreement.
Practice ownership (corporate practice of medicine)
Non-licensee ownership permitted — Pharmacy ownership is governed separately under AS 08.80 pharmacy permit/licensure requirements; no pharmacist-ownership mandate was confirmed in this research pass beyond the general Alaska Professional Corporation Act framework if organized as a PC.
Whether Alaska imposes a pharmacist-in-charge control safeguard analogous to other states was not separately confirmed in this research pass.
Legal sources for these rules (1)
About Alaska's rules
All four APRN roles (NP, CRNA, CNM, CNS) share one statutory framework (AS 08.68.850, 12 AAC 44) with FULL independent practice and no collaborative agreement. PA law is mid-transition: SB 89 would add a 4,000-hour conditional pathway effective ~Sept. 16, 2026, but its enrolled text couldn't be verified — current codified law (below) still requires a standing collaborative plan with no experience-based exit.
Other clinicians in Alaska: see the state overview.