Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4723 - Ohio Board of Nursing › Chapter 4723-27 - Medication Administration by Certified Medication Aide › Section 4723-27-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
As used in this chapter:
(A) "Active certificate" means the
			 certificate held by an individual who has fulfilled all the requirements of the
			 board for initial certification or for certification renewal.
(B) "Approved drug" means a drug approved by
			 the federal food and drug administration (FDA).
(C) "As-needed medication" means any
			 medication that is not scheduled to be administered at a routine time, but is
			 given in response to a resident's complaint or expression of discomfort or
			 other indication of a specified condition.
(D) "Board" means the Ohio board of
			 nursing.
(E) "Board approved
			 examination" means the written examination and clinical skills examination
			 offered by a testing organization approved by the board.
(F) "Certificate" means the certificate
			 issued to a medication aide by the board in accordance with section
			 4723.651 of the Revised
			 Code.
(G) "Certified medication
			 aide" means a person who holds a current, valid certificate as a medication
			 aide issued by the board of nursing under section
			 4723.651 of the Revised
			 Code.
(H) "Contact hour" means
			 sixty minutes of continuing education, as provided in paragraph (F) of rule
			 4723-14-01 of the
			 Administrative Code.
(I)
			 "Curriculum" means the standard minimum curriculum to be used in a
			 board-approved training program for medication aides in accordance with rule
			 4723-27-08
			 of the Administrative Code.
(J)
			 "Delegation" means the transfer of responsibility for the administration of
			 prescription medication from a registered nurse, or a licensed practical nurse
			 acting at the direction of a registered nurse, to a certified medication
			 aide.
(K) "Didactic" means the
			 component of an educational program that includes lecture, verbal instruction,
			 or other means of exchanging theoretical information between instructor and
			 students, typically in a classroom setting.
(L) "Direction" means communicating a plan of
			 care to a licensed practical nurse. Direction by a registered nurse is not
			 meant to imply the registered nurse is supervising the licensed practical nurse
			 in an employment context.
(M)
			 "Gastrostomy tube" means a percutaneously inserted catheter that terminates in
			 the stomach.
(N) "Inactive
			 certificate" means the status of the certificate of an individual who has made
			 a request in writing that the board place the certificate on inactive status.
			 An individual with an inactive certificate does not hold a current, valid
			 certificate.
(O) "Jejunostomy tube"
			 means a percutaneously inserted catheter that terminates in the
			 jejunum.
(P) "Laboratory
			 experience" means a component of classroom instruction consisting of a
			 simulated clinical experience, in which the student is provided the opportunity
			 to practice skills in the administration of medication while observed by a
			 nurse.
(Q) "Lapsed certificate"
			 means a certified medication aide has failed to fulfill all requirements of
			 certificate renewal and has not requested that the board place the certificate
			 on inactive status.
(R) "Licensed
			 practical nurse" or "L.P.N." means an individual who holds a current, valid
			 license issued under Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code that authorizes the
			 practice of nursing as a licensed practical nurse.
(S) "Medication" means a drug as defined in
			 division (E) of section
			 4729.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(T) "Medication aide training
			 program" means the formal program of study approved by the board and required
			 for certification as a medication aide in accordance with sections
			 4723.61 to
			 4723.69 of the Revised Code and
			 this chapter.
(U) "Medication
			 error" means a failure to follow the prescriber's instructions when
			 administering a prescription medication, including:
(1) Administration of an outdated
			 medication;
(2) Administration of
			 the wrong medication;
(3)
			 Administration of the wrong dose of a medication;
(4) Failure to administer the medication as
			 ordered;
(5) Administration of the
			 medication by the wrong route;
(6)
			 Administration of the medication to the wrong resident;
(7) Failure to prepare, store, or administer
			 a medication in accordance with instructions of the manufacturer or the
			 pharmacist;
(8) Administration of
			 medication without nurse delegation or not in accordance with nurse
			 delegation;
(9) Administration of
			 medication using the wrong technique or method.