Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 290 - RULES OF DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES › Chapter 290-2 - FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES › Subject 290-2-6 - RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR CHILDREN'S TRANSITION CARE CENTERS › Rule 290-2-6-.14 - Services for Transition Care

Current through Rules and Regulations
				filed through June 27, 2024
(1)
Casework Services.
All
				children in care and families of children in care shall receive case work
				services as provided in their comprehensive service plan from their assigned
				HSP or other appropriate professionals (internal and external of the center)
				who shall meet with and counsel with the children. The results of such
				counseling shall be recorded in the children's case records. The purposes of
				such services are to identify and monitor the children's and families' progress
				relative to the needs, goals and objectives identified in child care
				assessments and service plans and to discuss any problems being encountered by
				or with the children in care.
(2)
Health Services.
The center shall provide for a comprehensive
				program of services to meet the health care needs and medical support needs for
				the child, as well as preventive, routine, and emergency medical and dental
				care for all children.
(a) Medications. The
				center shall develop and implement policies and procedures for the use and
				management of all types of medications. All direct care staff shall receive
				orientation on the policies and procedures. Such policies and procedures shall
				include the following:
1. Non-prescription
				medications. The center shall designate appropriate staff to dispense non
				prescription medications. No child shall be given a non-prescription medication
				by staff members of the center unless the child exhibits symptoms that the
				medication is designed to relieve.
2. Prescription medications. No child shall
				be given a prescription medication unless the medication is prescribed for the
				child by an authorized health care professional.
(i) Prescription medications shall only be
				given to a child at the center by an RN, parent, guardian, custodian or person
				standing in loco parentis as ordered in the child's prescription. A center
				shall not permit such medications prescribed for one child to be given to any
				other child.
(ii) A child's
				attending physician shall be notified in cases of dosage errors, drug
				reactions, or if the prescription medication does not appear to be
				effective.
3. A center
				shall maintain a record of all medications handed out by authorized staff and
				taken by children to include: name of child taking medication, name of
				prescribing physician and date of prescription (if the medication is
				prescription or psychotropic), required dosage, date and time taken, dosage
				taken, and name and signature of staff member that handed out and supervised
				the taking of the medication.
4.
				All prescription and non-prescription medications shall be kept in a locked
				storage cabinet or container which is not accessible to the children and stored
				separate from cleaning chemicals and supplies or poisons. The keys to the
				locked cabinets or containers shall not be accessible to residents.
5. All expired medications shall be discarded
				and not handed out for use.