Roles & Responsibilities
Interdisciplinary process to meet the client's medication related unmet needs.
What is Medication Management?
In this Medication Assistance Level, one does not perform the medication rights or perform safety checks.
What is MAP Level 1?
Identifies the environment a parenteral medication must initially be administered in IHC.
What is the first dose column?
Those medications that, although therapeutic to the patient, are known to or suspected to pose a health risk to health care workers exposed to them in the workplace due to the medication toxicity.
What are Hazardous Medications?
A medication used with the intent to limit activity or control a behavior.
What is a pharmacological restraint?
Orders via this format are only accepted in emergency or urgent situations.
What are verbal or telephonic orders?
What are the Letter to Prescriber and Letter to Pharmacy?
A function that will help to easily navigate a Resource Tool or document.
What is 'Control + F'?
A document providing guidance specifically for Home Care and Hazardous Medications.
What is the IHC Hazardous Medication Frequently Asked Questions document?
Equipment with built-in sharps injury protection mechanisms that reduce the risk of exposure incidents from medical sharps.
What is a Safety Engineered Device (SED)?
Learning about and improving patient safety through reporting hazards, close calls, and adverse events.
What is a RLS?
Full assistance with Medication activities
What is MAP Level 3?
In Home Care this means administration of medications and solutions by injection, including subcutaneous (SC/Hypodermoclysis), intra-muscular (IM), and epidural/intrathecal administration.
What are Parenteral Medications?
What are Known, Potential and Reproductive?
The client or their family/caregivers.
Who is responsible for safe disposal (ie. throwing out the garbage/fluids) in the community setting?
A 3-step process to promote safety and generate an up-to-date medication list for the client.
What is Medication Reconciliation?
This manual guides leaders, educators, and members of the health care team within AHS to understand evidence-informed medication assistance best practices.
What is the Provincial MAP Manual?
This Resource Tool provides the list of approved parenteral medications allowed to be administered in Home Care.
What is the Approved Parenteral Medication Process and Lists?
These medications have a heightened risk of causing significant harm when used in error.
What are High Alert Medications?
IHC Sharepoint- Home Care Educators contact section.
Where can you find contact information for the QEP educator team?
A history conducted with the client on admission, at transition points and status updates and on discharge from home care.
What is a Best Possible Medication History (BPMH)?
MAP levels where the client does not need to be supervised taking medications.
What is MAP Level 1 and 2?
Where can you find guidance when a requested parenteral medication is not on the IHC Approved lists?
This history must be up to date when your client is on a Hazardous Medication. Hint: it is usually done within the first two weeks of admission.
What is the BPMH?
What is the DO NOT USE LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS policy?