HLTHPS006 Assist clients with medication Assessment

Questions

Provide answers to all of the questions below:

1. List the Act that relates to medication administration for the state and territory in which you are based.

2. Describe the purpose of the each of the following laws and their relevance to administering medication.

3. Identify an Act relevant to disability services for your state and describe its purpose.

4. Describe the obligation you have under duty of care when administering medications. Provide an example to illustrate your answer.

5. List three types of standard precautions.

6. List two types of additional precautions.

7. For each of the medication types, give an example of a specific medication and handling, administering and storage instructions.

8. Choose 10 of the medications you have identified above and that you may use in your work role and complete the following table.

9. Explain the purpose of medication charts and how they are used in administering medication.

10. List two errors that can be made in administering medication. For each error explain why this could happen.

11. List two impacts of an error in administering medication.