Medication Safety & Recognizing Adverse Reactions

A one-hour annual in-service for adult day health staff on how medications are ordered, stored, administered, documented, and monitored under state adult day health licensing rules, who may administer and who observes and reports, the Five Rights plus right documentation, common high-risk medicines in older adults, telling a side effect from an adverse reaction from an allergic reaction, the signs every staff member reports immediately, medication errors, and medication emergencies. State-neutral.