Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Handling Refusal of Medicines as an Elder Care Advisor

If you are an elder care advisor working in Senior Housing you may run into clients who refuse their medication. If a client is unable to take their medication due to illness, refusal, or any other reason, you must report it immediately to the manager as well as the prescribing officer. Each client has the right to refuse their medications. This refusal must be recorded on the MAR sheet with the reason for refusal. The codes should be used in the client notes to depict the reason for refusal. These codes can be found in the local or organisational...