EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICES NATIONAL REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 92
EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICES NATIONAL REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 92
92 . Medication record
(1) The approved
provider of an education and care service must ensure that a medication record
is kept that includes the details set out in subregulation (3) for each
child to whom medication is or is to be administered by the service.
(2) A family day care
educator must keep a medication record that includes the details set out in
subregulation (3) for each child being educated and cared for by the
educator as part of a family day care service to whom medication is or is to
be administered.
(3) The details to be
recorded are —
(a) the
name of the child;
(b) the
authorisation to administer medication (including, if applicable,
self‑administration), signed by a parent or a person named in the
child’s enrolment record as authorised to consent to administration of
medication;
(c) the
name of the medication to be administered and the medical condition the
medication is being used to treat;
(d) the
time and date the medication was last administered;
(e) the
time and date, or the circumstances under which, the medication should be next
administered;
(f) the
dosage of the medication to be administered;
(g) the
manner in which the medication is to be administered;
(h) if
the medication is administered to the child —
(i)
the dosage that was administered; and
(ii)
the manner in which the medication was administered; and
(iii)
the time and date the medication was administered; and
(iv)
the name and signature of the person who administered the
medication; and
(v)
if another person is required under regulation 95 to
check the dosage and administration, the name and signature of that person.
Note for this regulation:
This regulation
differs from regulation 92 of the national regulations made by the
Ministerial Council.
[Regulation 92 amended: Gazette 28 Nov 2014
p. 4404.]