Texas Administrative Code
Title 26 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Part 1 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
Chapter 748 - MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR GENERAL RESIDENTIAL OPERATIONS
Subchapter L - MEDICATION
Division 1 - ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICATION
Section 748.2003 - What are the requirements for administering prescription medication?
Universal Citation: 26 TX Admin Code ยง 748.2003
Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
(a) To the best of your knowledge, you must inform the person legally authorized to give medical consent of the benefits, risks, and side effects of all prescription medication and treatment procedures used and the medical consequences of refusing them, and/or provide the name and telephone number of the prescribing health-care professional for more information.
(b) For prescription medications, you must:
(1) Be informed about possible side effects
of medications administered to the child;
(2) Store all medication in the original
container unless you have an additional container with the same label and
instructions;
(3) Administer all
medications according to the instructions on the label or according to a
prescribing health-care professional's subsequent signed orders (See §
748.2005 of Title 40 (relating to May I accept verbal orders on the
administration of medication?));
(4) Administer each child's medication within
one hour of preparation;
(5) Ensure
the child has taken the medication as prescribed;
(6) Ensure a person trained in and authorized
to administer medication administers the medication to a child in care unless
the child is on a self-medication program;
(7) Maintain any documentation provided by
the health-care professional on the administration of current
medication;
(8) Not physically
force a child to take medication except as allowed by § 748.2455(a)(2)(B)
of Title 40 (relating to What actions must a caregiver take before using a
permitted type of emergency behavior intervention?);
(9) Ensure that your employees do not provide
any medication or treatment to a child except on written orders of a
health-care professional;
(10) Not
borrow or administer medication to a child that is prescribed to another
person; and
(11) Not administer
medication to more than one child from the same container. Only the child for
whom the medication was prescribed may use the medication.
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