Honesty is the Best Policy
Medication refills should be requested from the pharmacy at least this many days in advance.
What is "3 days"?
The name of this form is abbreviated to I.M.M.S..
What is the "Individual Monthly Medication Sheet"?
The only approved method for non-medical staff supervision of medication. (Not dispense or administer.)
What is "medication monitoring"?
"Fluoxetine HCl" on the pill bottle compared to "Fluoxetine" on the IMMS is an example of this.
What is a "discrepancy"?
This code is never written directly onto the IMMS. It only appears on the check sheet.
What is a "9"?
These are three reasons why a medication would be disposed of.
Medication is expired, no longer prescribed to the individual, contaminated or ruined, abandoned, or there has been a change in regimen that is not to be accommodated with existing medication.
This form is updated daily and lists every person enrolled in MMT.
What is the "check sheet"?
The procedure for ordering this medication does not require a doctor; the MMT-certified staff calls the pharmacy and requests it.
What is a "refill"?
This is the first thing you do if you think you might have had a medication incident.
What is "STOP the session"?
If a client takes an incorrect dose by accident, this code is used to document the medication incident and an incident report must be generated.
What is "*E"?
Stop the session, inform a supervisor, consult a licensed healthcare provider, mark *E and write on the back of the IMMS a note including the actual dose taken and any instructions for the next dose.
This specific type is counted by two staff upon being delivered to the office.
What is a "controlled substance"?
In addition to the IMMS, the check sheet, and the client's AWARDS Facesheet, the client's worker is required to describe the plan for MMT (including time, place, and frequency of assistance) in this form.
What is "the service plan"?
The process of confirming that all information on an individual medication that was delivered by the pharmacy is accurate and ready for use by the client.
What is "checking in" a medication?
A blank 9 on the check sheet for yesterday
What is an incomplete session? (Acceptable answers convey that the 9 is missing a check or other code signifying that the client was outreached for the pre-packed medication.)
Depending on the circumstances of this code, it might indicate an MMT incident OR it might just mean that the client is out of medication.
What is a "6"?
This dosing frequency requires at LEAST 6 hours between doses.
What is "BID" AKA "twice a day"?
When a client presents intoxicated to their MMT session, check this form first before proceeding.
What is the "standing order"?
This disagreement between any two sources of information resulting in a lack of clarity of proper procedure, triggers a STOP in the session.
What is a "discrepancy"?
Checking this database can help with the process of reconciling medication after a hospitalization discharge without paperwork.
What is the "Bronx RHIO" or "RHIO"?
Not as simple as a full refusal, this code requires some explanation (on the back of the IMMS).
What is a "1*"?
All documentation related to medication must be updated, at a minimum, before this point in time.
What is "the next scheduled medication session"?
When discontinuing a medication on the IMMS, the annotation needs to be accompanied by these three points of information.
"Med discontinued on ______, by _______, ______"
What is "the date the medication is discontinued, the physician ordering the discontinuation, and the initials of the worker documenting the discontinuation"?
Unsuccessfully completing this procedure results in a 7.
What is "outreaching a client"? (Other answers that convey action of searching for the client are acceptable.)
Though they cannot prescribe medication, this person is contacted as a last resort to reconciling medication when no doctors can be reached.
What is the "pharmacist"?
Despite the projected length of the client's stay, these 3 codes are written 1 day at a time.
What are 3's, 4's and 5's?