{"ref":"PA-HC-SVC-03","title":"Assistance with Self-Administered Medications","category":"Clinical tasks","summary":"Sets out the limited help with medications that direct care workers may give a consumer who self-administers (reminders, bringing and opening labeled containers, reading labels, observing and recording), the tasks they never perform, and what to do when a consumer refuses, misses, or takes a wrong dose.","inShort":["Help with medications only if the service plan says so, and only for consumers who take their own medications.","You may remind, bring the labeled container, read the label aloud, open it, and watch the consumer take it.","Never choose a dose, fill a pill organizer, crush pills, put pills in food or in the consumer’s mouth, or give an injection.","Record every dose taken, refused, or missed. Never record a dose you did not see taken.","Call your supervisor right away about a wrong or missed dose. Call 911 for a serious reaction."],"primaryCitation":"28 Pa. Code §611.55(c)(6)","citations":["28 Pa. Code §611.5","28 Pa. Code §611.55(c)(6)","35 P.S. §448.802a","28 Pa. Code §51.3(g)(3)","55 Pa. Code §52.3","55 Pa. Code §52.17"],"federalCitations":[],"surveyorAsks":["What does a direct care worker do when it is time for a consumer’s medication?","Show me where this consumer’s service plan says what medication help the worker gives."],"forms":[{"ref":"PA-HC-SVC-03-A","title":"Medication Assistance Record"}],"headings":["Terms of Reference","1. Purpose","2. Scope","3. Definitions","4. Policy Statement (28 Pa. Code §611.55(c)(6))","5. Before Medication Assistance Starts","6. What Direct Care Workers May and May Not Do","7. Steps at Each Medication Time","8. Refusals, Missed Doses, Errors, and Reactions","9. Reporting","10. Storage, Supplies, and Disposal","11. Responsibilities","12. Records and Compliance Monitoring","13. Staff Training","14. References","15. Related Policies and Forms","16. Approval","17. Revision History"],"version":"1.0","sample":false,"pack":"pa-hca","state":"Pennsylvania","service":"Home care","guides":[{"path":"/guides/home-care-agency-policies/","h1":"What policies does a home care agency need?"}],"agency":{"name":"Sample Agency","legalName":"Sample Agency, LLC","logo":null}}