Requirements, and The Pharmacy)
Who are the NVBOP members? Who appoints the board members? ✔️✔️6 RPh - 5 years experience, 1
being president/chair
1 member of the general public
The Governor of NV appoints NVBOP members
Is the Board a Separate Entity or Under Another Organization/Department? ✔️✔️Separate Entity
Who chairs the board? ✔️✔️One of the pharmacist members is appointed as president/chair
How long do board members serve? ✔️✔️Appointed a 3 year term and cannot serve more than 3
consecutive term
How often does the board convene? ✔️✔️Per law every 6 months, but they meet monthly.
Need at least 4 members present
Who can attend meetings? ✔️✔️Typically general public
EXCEPT meetings of the board which are held to deliberate on the decision in an administrative action or
to prepare, grade, or administer examinations
Name the 3 groups that can apply for a pharmacist license ✔️✔️New
Transfer/reciprocity
Foreign Graduate
What are the licensure requirements for a NEW pharmacist? ✔️✔️Completed new examinee
aplication, passed NV MPJE and NAPLEX, verified intern hours, and transcripts (directly from school),
paid fee
, Good moral character
Graduate of program accredited by ACPE or CCAPP
Pass a board approved exam and pass law exam
Complete 1,740 intern hours
What are the licensure requirements for a Transfer or reciprocity pharmacist? ✔️✔️Reciprocity: Need
to have completed license by reciprocity application, fee, passed NV MPJE with score >75
Transfer: need completed score transfer application, passed NV MPJE, passed NAPLEX, verified intern
hours, transcripts (directly from SOP), fee
What are the licensure requirements for a Foreign Graduate pharmacist? ✔️✔️Need application (new
examinee or reciprocity depending on if grad already has license or not) with copy of FPGEC attached
Canadian grads do not need to take teh FPGEC
Application fee for pharmacist? ✔️✔️$250
How many # of CE Hours for renewal? Any special requirements of those hours? (Boards?) ✔️✔️30
hours in a 2 year period
1 hour must be in NV law fulfilled either through CE requirements, attending 1 whole board meeting
(which also provides 3 additional hours of approved CE) or taking a written examination obtained from
the board's office
How many intern hours must an intern have to apply for an RPh license? Transcripts required for all new
grads except for foreign grads who need a FPGEC certificate ✔️✔️1740 hours
To turn your license into inactive status, what 2 items must be submitted? Inactive RPhs do not have to
complete CEs. ✔️✔️1. Statement certifying that you will not engage in pharmacy practice during the
inactive period
2. Completed application