How to deal with children medicines?

Question

medicines includes inhalers or drugs for long term condition in schools and nursery

Answer 1

Keep them in a cabinet away from reach, and READ the acompanying information sheets so you know how to dispense them properly. Pretty simple. If Mickey Mouse can do it right, you can too.

Answer 2

The ministry of Children and Social Services has policies we must follow in Ontario regarding medications in day nurseries. They must be kept in their original containers, with pharmaceutical stickers attached, providing dosage requirements and prescribing doctor. They must be kept out of reach of children and in a locked box. parents must sign a consent form and document when the dosage should be given. Only qualified ECE staff may give medication and they must sign at what time and what dosage they have given. These forms must be filed in a child's file after the medication is finished.

Any emergency medication such as epi pens and emergency inhalers are kept on the senior staff in a waist pouch for safe keeping, and still allow for easy access in an emergency.

Answer 3

Keep them in a special cabinet or container, out of reach for children, but make sure that you have easy access to them in case of an emergency, like an asthma attack.  Make sure that they are labeled with the child's name and dosage instructions.  Also keep a list with them with the parents' names and numbers.

Answer 4

Every school should have a medical sheet to be signed by the parents, instruction of dispensing the medicine and a safe high shelf place to keep it. More than one person in the school should know how and when to give the child the medicine.

Answer 5

An instruction sheet from the doctor, and signed by the doctor and parent should be kept on file.  The medicine should be kept in a locked container out of reach of children.  A dosage sheet should be maintained for each child who has medicine in the lock box stating when the medicine was administered, by whom, and exactly how much was given.  That way the center has an exact record so that the parent can be accurately informed on the dosing schedule, and dosing will not be duplicated by staff who are not aware that it has been administered.

Answer 6

You will have to check with your state's rules and regs as to how to handle children's medicines. I do not administer medicine except in life threatening decisions - so like you said, inhalors or epi-pens.  There are tons of forms to fill out for the parent and their doctor - keep them all on file with the child's records.  And the medicine itself is put in our first aid kit on top of a shelf where the children can not reach it clearly labeled with the child's name.

Answer 7

Check with Child Care Licensing in your state....regulations may vary.   At our school, we DO NOT give any over the counter meds without a note from the doctor, for prescriptions, the parent must fill out the medication chart, which lists child's name, name of med, how much to give, what time to give and parents signature and a space that the teachers signs and the time it was give,  We only give meds that have the child's name, date and dosage and in the original pkg.