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HPR 109
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Title: | Assisting/Medication Admin |
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Long Title: | Assisting with Medication Administration |
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Course Description: | Addresses routine knowledge and information required by the Professional Household Health Assistant in attending the home-care patient. It is designed to provide information in support of the family and healthcare providers¿ directions in client self-administered medication in the home setting. It is not designed to teach administration techniques, calculations, or dispensing of drugs to the client in the home, but rather the support skills required in assisted facilitation of self-medication, storage of medications, and trained observation of the patient with monitoring/documentation of patient self-administered medications. |
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Min Credit: | 1 |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
I. Define: pharmacology, OTC, polypharmacy, & prescriptions.
II. Define the PHHA role of medication in the home
III. Describe storage issues, ethics, responsibilities, restrictions, documentation, safety issues, and care of drugs in the home.
IV. Identify medication responses that are reportable.
V. Discuss blood levels as related to medications for the client.
VI. Discuss overdosage and accumulative effects in the client.
VII. Define and identify controlled substances and responsibilities related to them.
VIII. Discuss metabolism, actions of medications in the body, and the PHHA responsibility.
IX. Define: indication, adverse reaction, interaction, and contraindication.
X Discuss medication roles in chronic disease processes.
XI. Discuss medication roles in relationship to age and disease processes of the client.
XII. Identify several medications related to certain chronic disease processes:
A. digestive disorders
B. urinary disorders
C. integumentary disorders
D. muscloskeletal disorders
E. nervous system disorders
F. circulatory system disorders
G. respiratory system disorders
H. reproductive system disorders
I. endocrine system disorders
XIII. Explain oxygen therapy in the home and its use.
XIV. Discuss oxygen use safety, storage, and care in the home.
XV. Discuss poison control access and responsibilities in the home.
XVI. Identify when to notify the client¿s family, physician, EMS.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. THE PHHA¿S ROLE OF MEDICATION IN THE HOME CLIENT
II. MEDICATION ACTIONS ON THE BODY
A. actions, interactions, reactions, contraindications
III. MEDICATIONS AS RELATED TO AGE, DISEASE PROCESS, BODY SYSTEM
IV. EMERGENCY CARE & ASSISTANCE IN MEDICATIONS
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