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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.]