Medication Aid Curriculum

It describes the procedures, actions and processes that a person in the medical field is permitted to do while staying in the lines of the dos and don’ts of their professional license. As for medical assistants and the scope of practice tends to differ from the rest just like any other healthcare professional. To make it clear, medical assistants are NOT licensed to be a doctor, health practitioner clinician. Our level of experience falls into the so-called middle-skills job class. Different states have different laws that medical assistants have to follow, but fall into the same criteria as the other states. As medical assistants, we are prohibited from making judgments about treatment, making independent assessments, diagnoses, and may not:Triage patients aloneDo not tell the patient about test resultsGive medicine without permission or doctors ordersGive medication directly in the veins of patientswww.mb-guide.org/medical-assisting-scope-of-practice.html For the medical assistants, we are always under the supervision of the doctor or any other health care professional. We are never alone. In my program, we are taught different things like, billing and coding, phlebotomy, and office work. Personally, I’d like to work in the field and interact with the patients and help them as much as my scope of practice allows. One day, I will go to the next level of the medical field and further my

The Medicines Acts 1968 and various amendments cover the legal management of medication. While care staff are not expected to have detailed knowledge of the legislation, they do need to be aware of the legal difference between types of drugs and the legal framework that allows them to handle medicines on behalf of the service user.

The first consideration a registered nurse should determine is if “The Right Task (Cherry 355-356)” is being delegated to the right staff member. Delegation to the right staff member must be in their scope of practice and have proven to competent to complete. An individuals’ scope of practice will be set forth by the facility in which they work. In addition to individual facility polices the nurse must adhere to the scope of delegation set forth in the Nurse Practice Act of Maryland. Per the Nurse Practice Act of Maryland the task to be delegated must be “within the area of responsibility of the nurse delegating the act (Code of Maryland Regulations 10.27.11.03).” An example of incorrect delegating would be having an unlicensed individual, CNA or LPN to

Roles and responsibilities for supporting the use of medication if after the medication has been dispensed and go into the home depending where people live they may need help from care staff to administer the medication after training they staff would be able to support service users to

A growing demand has emerged in the healthcare field for well-trained pharmacy technicians to assist the pharmacist in many practice settings by assuming greater responsibilities. These may include order entry, filing prescription orders, compounding sterile preparations, cart fill exchanges, inventory control, operation of automated technology, utilizing the computer system as well as fulfilling other patient specific duties. Well-trained pharmacy technicians in retail and institutional settings are a vital part of the healthcare team.

Medical assistants are cross-trained to perform clinical duties such as coding and filling out insurances forms for the physicians (AAMA, 1996). They handle correspondence, billing, and bookkeeping (AAMA, 1996). They assist the physicians during exams and prepare and administer medication as directed by a physician (AAMA, 1996). Medical assistants also remove sutures and change dressings (AAMA, 1996). Medical assistants are essential members of the health department.

The Ethical Conduct for the Physician Assistant Profession also states “In the absence of a preexisting patient–PA relationship, the physician assistant is under no ethical obligation to care for a person unless no other provider is available. A PA is morally bound to provide care in emergency situations and to arrange proper follow-up.”1 (pg5) So these are not just her legal duties, but they’re her moral duties as well.

If social care worker collects medicines for the service user they must ensure that any written policies and procedures for every aspect of handling medicines are adhered too. The registered provider is responsible for ensuring that when care workers give medicines they have the right training and are competent to do so.

Outcome 1 – Understand the legislative framework for the use of medication in social care settings.

Medication assistant treatment also known as (MAT) is when a person has presented with an opioid addiction and have challenges stopping and/or abstaining from opioid use and they are prescribed either Methadone, Suboxone, or Vivitrol. Those who are in support for MAT is that this a better alternative to having individuals addicted to illicit substances. The other side to MAT is that this is way to keep individuals addicted to drugs, legally. I do not support MAT treatment as a form of long term treatment and not as the solution for opioid addiction. Serving as an Addiction Counselor and working with individuals who are addicted to opioids, I encounter many individuals who are or at one point utilized

It is up to the nurse/delegator to determine the delegatee’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and any training that will ensure that the task will be handled appropriately and safely. If it is necessary the nurse/delegator must provide instruction and direction to the delegatee. The nurse/delegator or another qualified nurse must be available to supervise the delegate and delegated task. The level of supervision needed will be determined by the training, capability, and willingness of the delegate to perform the task. A delegate may not delegate to another person or expand the delegated task without the permission of the nurse/delegator. Once the delegated task is completed the nurse must evaluate the delegated task, patient’s health status, determination if the goals are being met and if the delegation of the task may be continued (UT Admin Code R156-31b. Nurse Practice Act Rule, 2013). In section R156-31b-704 the rules for the recognized scope of practice of an RN are outlined. It states that the RN, RN managers, and RN administrators should practice

I recently had an issue with another qualified medication aide that was documenting the wrong charts and I immediately reported it to my charge nurse so she could resolve the issue. The charge nurse would either solve the problem the majority of the time or she might refer it to her supervisor.

One of the most important roles of a pharmacist is the ability to intervene, assess, recommend and implement a therapy for a patient. As part of the Applications of Pharmacy Course we have the opportunity to apply all these roles utilizing different methods and tools of intervention, such as the Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT). Each one of these tools can be oriented to be general and therefore can be utilize in any type of circumstance, whereas other types of tools are focused on specific topics and therefore are intended to be use on specific settings, like for example SBIRT is utilize to assess substance abuse. SBIRT consists of 2 different screening tools; one, which focuses on drug abuse, and the second

You are absolutely right about delegating a task to a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). In order to provide a safe and competent nursing care we need to delegate our task appropriately. It should be clear, concise, correct and complete. We have to ask them if they understood the task properly, and let them ask question. When I give them report at the beginning of the shift, I always tell my aid that, we both are taking care of the patients and we need to make sure our patients get their needs met. I also tell them to call me, if they need any help. During the shift when I see them around, I ask them, if they are doing okay. I try to maintain a nice, friendly relationship with them.

I have a relative that is consider a non-skilled worker and is the only human contact and support systems this elder woman have throughout the day. One day, the daughter of this elder individual, requesting that my relative assist and/or give insulin shot, approached my relative. My relative refused because even though she has a CNA license, she is not licensed to assist. Moreover, to assist would be practicing outside their scope, performing medical duties without the appropriate competency training and licensure (Lubbe & Roets, 2014, p. 58). Even though, the daughter did not like the refusal, she respected it my relative’s right to protect herself from liable suit and the health of her mother. Thus, in this case, a reputation of quality