Assisting with Medication Management - CNAs
Tracking # 20-596825
$14.99
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Method Computer-Based Training
What you'll learn
- Read and understand a prescription label.
- Provide assistance with oral medication.
- Measure liquid solutions and suspensions (shake well), break scored tablets, and crush tablets as directed by prescription order.
- Provide assistance with topical forms of medication for the skin, eye, ear, and nose, including creams, lotions, ointments, patches, ophthalmic drops and ointments, optic solutions and suspensions, and nasal drops, sprays, inhalers, and discuss dosage forms.
- Complete a Medication Observation Record (MOR).
- Retrieve, store, and dispose of medication properly.
- Recognize the need to clarify "as needed' medication orders.
- Recognize a medication order which requires judgement and advise the resident, resident's health care provider, or facility employer of the unlicensed caregiver's inability to assist in the administration of such orders.
- Recognize the general side effects of medications and classes of drugs and the need to report adverse drug events (ADEs).
- Develop and understand the types of questions to ask a health care provider (HCP) regarding a resident's medications.
- Promote medication error reduction, reporting, and safety in ALFs.
- Promote timely adverse drug event (ADE) reporting in ALFs.
Course overview
Subject areas
This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.
Florida Board of Nursing - Certified Nursing Assistants
Certified Nursing Assistant
2h
General