# Nevada — State pharmacy technician-to-pharmacist supervision ratios

For Nevada, maximum ratio (tech:pharmacist) is 3:1; practice setting is institutional/hospital; conditional increase is may supervise more if not more than three are performing technician duties as set forth in NAC 639.245, and the pharmacy record identifies which technicians are performing those duties; trainee limit is 2 technicians plus 1 trainee when supervising distributive functions; citation is NAC 639.250(1), recorded from its source on 2026-08-15.

- **State:** Nevada
- **Maximum ratio (tech:pharmacist):** 3:1
- **Practice setting:** institutional/hospital
- **Conditional increase:** may supervise more if not more than three are performing technician duties as set forth in NAC 639.245, and the pharmacy record identifies which technicians are performing those duties
- **Trainee limit:** 2 technicians plus 1 trainee when supervising distributive functions _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Citation:** NAC 639.250(1)

## What the source says

> in a hospital, a pharmacist who is dispensing prescriptions may not supervise more than a total of three pharmaceutical technicians at one time. A pharmacist who is supervising distributive functions may not supervise more than a total of two pharmaceutical technicians and one pharmaceutical technician in training while the trainee is performing technician functions in on-the-job training.

## Source

- https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nac/nac-639.html

Last verified: 2026-08-15. Review by: 2027-08-15.
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