Medication Management

Operators must establish, implement and maintain documented policies and procedures for Medication Management that must, at a minimum, include the following:

  1. management and documentation of willful or inadvertent non-adherence to the Medication Management program including:
    1. failure to fill a prescription;
    2. failure to take a prescription;
    3. omitting doses or overdosing;
    4. improperly storing medication; or
    5. improper use of medication administration devices;

Notes

  • Best practices for medication management can be found at:
    • Decision Making Standards for Nurses in the Supervision of Health Care Aides
    • Assignment of Client Care Guidelines for Registered Nurses
    • Medication Guidelines

Evidence of compliance can be found within the Alberta Health CCHSS Information Guide