Administering Medication and Short Term Exclusion

Webinar Division

    Core Course: 110-1104

    Course Name: Health Services: Administering Medication and Short Term Exclusion

    Course Time: 90 minutes

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    Course Descriptions:

    Grantee and delegate agencies must establish and maintain written procedures regarding the administration, handling, and storage of medication for every child. Grantee and delegate agencies may modify these procedures as necessary to satisfy State or Tribal laws, but only where such laws are consistent with Federal laws. The procedures must include: (1) Labeling and storing, under lock and key, and refrigerating, if necessary, all medications, including those required for staff and volunteers; (2) Designating a trained staff member(s) or school nurse to administer, handle and store child medications; (3) Obtaining physicians’ instructions and written parent or guardian authorizations for all medications administered by staff; (4) Maintaining an individual record of all medications dispensed, and reviewing the record regularly with the child’s parents; (5)  Recording changes in a child’s behavior that have implications for drug dosage or type, and assisting parents in communicating with their physician regarding the effect of the medication on the child; and (6)  Ensuring that appropriate staff members can demonstrate proper techniques for administering, handling, and storing medication, including the use of any necessary equipment to administer medication.

    1. (1)  Grantee and delegate agencies must temporarily exclude a child with a short-term injury or an acute or short- term contagious illness, that cannot be readily accommodated, from program participation in center-based activities or group experiences, but only for that generally short-term period when keeping the child in care poses a significant risk to the health or safety of the child or anyone in contact with the child.

    2. (2)  Grantee and delegate agencies must not deny program admission to any child, nor exclude any enrolled child from program participation for a long­ term period, solely on the basis of his or her health care needs or medication requirements unless keeping the child in care poses a significant risk to the health or safety of the child or anyone in contact with the child and the risk cannot be eliminated or reduced to an acceptable level through reasonable modifications in the grantee or delegate agency’s policies, practices or procedures or by providing appropriate auxiliary aids which would enable the child to participate without fundamentally altering the nature of the program. the child that the program may be required to address. Programs must share information, as necessary, with appropriate staff regarding accommodations needed in accordance with the program’s confidentiality policy.

     

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of all program requirements, participants will be able to:

1.
  • Temporarily exclude a child with a short-term injury or an acute or short- term contagious illness, that cannot be readily accommodated, from program participation in center-based activities or group experiences
2.
    • Labeling and storing, under lock and key, and refrigerating, if necessary, all medications, including those required for staff and volunteers
3.
    • Designating a trained staff member(s) or school nurse to administer, handle and store child medications
4.
    • Obtaining physicians’ instructions and written parent or guardian authorizations for all medications administered by staff

 

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