Verification record
How current is Rhode Island’s pharmacy staffing rule, and how does RxShift know?
Last verified 2026-10-19. Read from the dated copy the issuing body serves and recorded word for word; the weekly re-check on 2026-10-19 confirmed every recorded passage in that copy. The issuing body publishes no live page for this rule, so the date above rests on the read itself.
The Rhode Island rule as RxShift applies it →How we verify, every state →
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Passages captured from the issuing body
1,949 characters, word for word
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Official sources
risos-apa-production-public.s3.amazonaws.com
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Dated reads on file
captures taken 2026-10-19
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Automatic re-checks
newest 2026-10-19
The rule on file
216-RICR-40-15-1.6.1(E). No pharmacist-to-technician ratio. Instead a staffing duty: a pharmacy must keep enough pharmacists and pharmacy technicians for its workload, provide adequate rest periods for its personnel, and give the Department of Health its staffing information, including staff schedules, on request (216-RICR-40-15-1.6.1(E)).
That is the sentence the Rhode Island page states. The passages below are what the issuing body served when RxShift read it, kept as a dated record so a pharmacy and its counsel can check the sentence against the source. How a rule is read is decided by people and recorded with its date; no automated check can change a reading. RxShift reports deficiencies against this reading; it does not certify compliance, and nothing here is legal advice.
The recorded passages
Recorded word for word on the read of 2026-10-19. Each week an automated re-check opens every official source named here and confirms each passage is still on the page as served; the mark on each passage is what the newest re-check (2026-10-19) found.
Source 1: risos-apa-production-public.s3.amazonaws.com
https://risos-apa-production-public.s3.amazonaws.com/DOH/REG_13410_20260323140408037.pdf ↗This address names a version or a date, so the issuing body keeps serving the same file after a revision. A passage found here proves that file, not the rule as it stands today, so this source never moves the public date on its own.
masthead (page 1)
Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19SUBCHAPTER 15 – PHARMACY
24 characters, recorded as written.
masthead (page 1)
Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19PART 1 – PHARMACISTS, PHARMACIES, AND MANUFACTURERS, WHOLESALERS, AND DISTRIBUTORS
82 characters, recorded as written.
§ 1.6.1(E), Licensure Requirements: Pharmacies (pages 42 to 43), verbatim; the "..." marks the page break
Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19All pharmacies shall maintain an adequate number of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to meet pharmacy workload demands, including but not limited to, administration of immunizations and medications, prescribing of medications and any future pharmaceutical care functions as allowed by law, provide for adequate rest periods for personnel, and maintain public safety. Pharmacy staffing information shall be provided to the Department upon request, including but not limited to number of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, prescription volume, ... pharmacy hours of operation, and staff schedules. Should the Department deem the pharmacy is inadequately staffed to provide all services, they shall be subjected to disciplinary actions by the Board. Such disciplinary action shall follow the applicable requirements outlined in § 1.19 of this Part. All hearings and reviews required by this Part shall be held in accordance with the provisions of R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 42-35.
980 characters, recorded as written.
§ 1.6.1(E)(1) (page 43)
Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19“Inadequately staffed” means an insufficient number of pharmacists and technicians to safely carry out the practice of pharmacy and meeting workload demands, including but not limited to, administration of medications and immunizations, and all future functions of pharmacy practice as required by laws and regulations. Inadequately staffed may be determined in a number of ways, including but not limited to, on-site observations of current staffing, pharmacy sales/volume reports, pharmacy staffing schedules, and payroll reports.
532 characters, recorded as written.
§ 1.5.9(A)(6), Internship (page 31)
Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19Licensed pharmacy interns shall practice only under the immediate supervision of a licensed pharmacist.
103 characters, recorded as written.
§ 1.6.5(A), General Requirements: All Pharmacies (page 45), verbatim, first sentence
Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19Personnel: A licensed pharmacist shall be physically accessible at the address listed on the license in order to operate and manage the pharmacy at all times during the hours of operation when the pharmacy is open to the public.
228 characters, recorded as written.
Every read and every re-check, newest first
A dated read is RxShift reading the issuing body’s text and recording it in a dated report; its public note is repeated here word for word from the updates log. A re-check is the weekly automated comparison of the recorded passages against the live page. People decide every reading; a re-check never changes one.
2026-10-19
Re-check: confirmed
The weekly re-check found every recorded passage (6 of 6, 1,671 characters) still on the issuing body's page as served that day. This run set no public date: every passage came from a dated copy the issuing body keeps serving, which proves that file rather than the rule as it stands today.
2026-10-19
Full read
Read in full from the issuing body's own text and recorded word for word.
Rhode Island's pharmacy staffing rule is unchanged as of October 19, 2026. The Department of Health's pharmacy regulation, 216-RICR-40-15-1, sets no limit on how many pharmacy technicians a pharmacist may supervise; section 1.6.1(E), as amended effective April 12, 2026, requires every pharmacy to keep enough pharmacists and technicians for its workload, to provide adequate rest periods for personnel, and to give the Department staffing information on request, including staff schedules. No amendment to the regulation has been proposed.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
2026-10-16
Re-check: no baseline
No report with a verbatim record qualified as a baseline on that date, so there was nothing for the automated re-check to compare.
2026-10-15
Re-check: no baseline
No report with a verbatim record qualified as a baseline on that date, so there was nothing for the automated re-check to compare.
2026-09-17
Report
A dated report on file for this state.
Rhode Island requires every pharmacy to keep enough pharmacists and technicians on duty to meet its workload and to provide adequate rest periods for staff, and to hand staffing information to the Department of Health on request, including prescription volume, hours of operation and staff schedules (216-RICR-40-15-1.6.1(E)). Rhode Island sets no maximum shift length, no fixed break length and no required rest period between shifts.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
2026-09-16
Report
A dated report on file for this state.
Rhode Island does not set a numeric pharmacist-to-technician ratio. RxShift does not model a Rhode Island ratio because there is none to model; whether Rhode Island has hour, break or documentation rules RxShift could support has not yet been researched.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
What the re-check results mean
- Confirmed: every recorded passage was still on the issuing body’s page as served that day.
- Mismatch: at least one passage was not found. It is reported as it stands, a person looks, and the rows after it show what followed.
- Not allowed: the issuing body’s site does not permit automated reading, so the rule rests on its dated read, by a person where the page can only be opened in a browser.
- Nothing to match, no baseline: the record on file held no passage the re-check can match, or no report yet qualified as its baseline.