Q-name the 5 regulations which refer to the administration of medication in an education and care service (refer to the ACECQA national regulations)?
My Ans-
(1) The approved provider of an education and care service must ensure that medication is not administered to a child being educated and cared for by the service unless-
(a) that administration is authorized; and
(b) the medication is administered in accordance with regulation 95 or 96.
Penalty: $2000.
(2) The approved provider of an education and care service must ensure that written notice is given to a parent or other family member of a child as soon as practicable, if medication is administered to the child under an authorization referred to in sub regulation (5)(b).
Penalty: $1000.
(3) The nominated supervisor of an education and care service must ensure that medication is not administered to a child being educated and cared for by the service unless-
(a) that administration is authorized; and
(b) the medication is administered in accordance with regulation 95 or 96.
Penalty: $2000.
(4) A family day care educator must ensure that medication is not administered to a child being educated and cared for by the educator as part of a family day care service unless-
(a) that administration is authorized; and
(b) the medication is administered in accordance with regulation 95 or 96.
Penalty: $2000.
(5) In this regulation the administration of medication to a child is authorized if an authorization to administer the medication-
(a) is recorded in the medication record for that child under regulation 92; or
(b) in the case of an emergency, is given verbally by-
(i) a parent or a person named in the child’s enrolment record as authorized to consent to administration of medication; or
(ii) if a parent or person named in the enrolment record cannot reasonably be contacted in the circumstances, a registered medical practitioner or an emergency service.
Please suggest am I on the right track?
administration of medication in care
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