Update (2024/2025)
Tracking documents? - ✔✔
MAP Consultant is a ? - ✔✔registered nurse, registered pharmacist, health care provider
(HCP)
When are MAP consultants available? - ✔✔24 hours a day, 7 days per week
Examples of when you may need to contact a MAP consultant include if? - ✔✔you make or
discover a medication occurrence, medication was omitted, refusal, The HCP order of
pharmacy label or medication sheet do not agree, questions about medication or how to
administer it
What happens if there is a medication refusal? - ✔✔Prescribing the medication HCP must be
notified
Observe for changes physical and or behavioral. First get to know the person by? -
✔✔Person, family, other staff, reading the persons health history , communication log,
observing the person for what they do both physically and behaviorally
Principles of medication administration? - ✔✔Principles of medication administration will
help ensure medications are administered safety
The principles of medication administration are? - ✔✔Mindfulness, supporting abilities,
communication
Principles of medication administration with mindfulness? - ✔✔pay attention to what you
are doing during the medication administration, decrease distractions, never allow
medication administration to become routine
, Principles of medication administration with supporting abilities? - ✔✔support the person
to be as independent as possible, encourage participation
Principles of medication administration with communication? - ✔✔Reading the HCP order,
pharmacy label and medication sheet, ensuring they agree, contacting a MAP consultant as
needed, talking and listening to the person while you administer their medication
Respecting rights in relation to medication administration people have the right to? -
✔✔know what their medications are and the reasons they are taken, know the risks
associated with taking the medication, know the benefits associated with taking the
medication, be given medication only as ordered by the HCP , refuse medication
If a person refuses to take their medication? - ✔✔Ask them why they do not want to take it
and report that information to the prescribing HCP and your supervisor. Until you know why
the person is refusing their medication and report the issue the problem cannot be resolved
Define observing in medication observing and reporting? - ✔✔Process of watching someone
carefully in order to obtain information observing, reporting and documenting physical and
behavioral changes are your responsibility
What is objective in observing and reporting medications? - ✔✔factual information you will
see, hear, feel, smell and measure
What are some objective signs in observing and reporting medications? - ✔✔vital signs, a
purple and red bruise, you see a person trip and fall, a persons forehead feels warm to the
touch
What are some subjective signs in observing and reporting medications? - ✔✔When a
person speaks or signs and they tell you something
What are some subjective signs in observing and reporting? - ✔✔I feel sick, I bumped my
knee, I hit my head when I fell, I feel really cold, she hit me