Medication Management in Residential Aged Care

Administration

Administration of medicines should incorporate understanding of how to correctly administer medicines in their appropriate form in a timely manner for each individual.

Knowledge

Demonstrate understanding of:

• pharmacological knowledge
• safe administration practices: guidelines, where/when to access advice
• medication administration resources such as medication charts, packaging
• altering dose form, and
• requirements for different types of medicines e.g. complementary, nutritional supplements.

Skills

Demonstrate ability to

• appropriately and accurately record medication administration, and
• assess residents for safe self administration.

Tasks

• Deliver medicines safely and accurately to resident (5Rs).
• Assess self administration capacity and ability in residents.
• Look to evidence based resources when building knowledge about medicines.
• Appropriately and accurately record medication administration.