{"ref":"LA-HH-MED-01","title":"Medication Management, Medication Errors, and Drug Regimen Review","category":"Clinical tasks","summary":"Sets out how the Agency protects patients from medication errors: keeping a complete medication list, reviewing the drug regimen, who may administer medications (RNs, LPNs within practical nursing law, never aides beyond the over-the-counter items Louisiana allows), giving only pharmacist-dispensed, properly labeled drugs as ordered, teaching patients and families, intravenous therapy, vaccines, and reporting and learning from medication errors.","inShort":["Keep a full medication list, including over-the-counter remedies, allergies, start and stop dates and side effects.","Give only medications that are ordered, dispensed by a pharmacist and properly labeled.","Aides never give medications; they may remind the patient.","Only RNs give IV medications and fluids; LPNs never access an IV.","If a medication error happens, make the patient safe, call the provider and your supervisor, and report it the same day."],"primaryCitation":"LAC 48:I §9123.E","citations":["LAC 48:I §9123.E","LAC 48:I §9123.B.3.f","LAC 48:I §9129.C.10","LAC 48:I §9103.D.2.c","LAC 48:I §9103.D.3.a","LAC 48:I §9103.C.2.d","LAC 48:I §9103.C.3.b","LAC 46:XLVII.3703"],"federalCitations":["42 CFR §484.55(c)(5)","42 CFR §484.60(b)(2)","42 CFR §484.60(e)(2)","42 CFR §484.80(g)(3)(iv)","42 CFR §484.65(c)(2)"],"surveyorAsks":["Show me this patient's medication list, including over-the-counter remedies, start and stop dates, allergies and side effects.","How do your nurses review the drug regimen for interactions and duplications?"],"forms":[{"ref":"LA-HH-MED-01-A","title":"Medication Error and Adverse Drug Event Report"}],"headings":["Terms of Reference","1. Purpose","2. Scope","3. Definitions","4. Policy Statement (LAC 48:I §9123.E)","5. The Medication List","6. Drug Regimen Review","7. Who May Administer Medications","8. Rules for Giving a Medication","9. Intravenous and Infusion Therapy","10. Teaching Patients and Families","11. Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccines","12. Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events","13. High-Alert Medications and Safety in the Home","14. Responsibilities","15. Records and Compliance Monitoring","16. Staff Training","17. References","18. Related Policies and Forms","19. Approval","20. Revision History"],"version":"1.0","sample":false,"pack":"la-hha","state":"Louisiana","service":"Home health","guides":[{"path":"/guides/home-health-agency-policies/","h1":"What policies and procedures are required for home health agencies?"},{"path":"/guides/home-health-conditions-of-participation/","h1":"Home health Conditions of Participation: which policies each one needs"}],"agency":{"name":"Sample Agency","legalName":"Sample Agency, LLC","logo":null}}