ARF medications: central storage, records, destruction and oxygen

Before you begin

What you will be able to do

• Decide whether a client's medication must be centrally stored in an ARF, using the three circumstances in section 80075(j), and leave each finding to the person the rule names: the physician, the administrator or the licensing agency.
• Keep centrally stored medications locked, apart from cleaning products and poisons, in their original labeled containers, and report a key, label or container problem without fixing it yourself.
• Check a client's centrally stored medication record, such as CDSS form LIC 622 Part I, for all eight items in section 80075(k)(7), and keep it at least one year.
• Destroy a prescription medication that is not taken with the client or not to be retained only with the administrator or a designated substitute and one other adult who is not a client, with a signed record kept at least one year.
• Set up and check oxygen use for a client: watch the client's ability, designate trained staff when needed, report in writing to the local fire jurisdiction, post signs, bar smoking, keep the equipment safe and remove it when it is no longer used.