Medication Aids ( as in a non-medical person passing medications in medical facilities )

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Introduction

An important part of the health care process is the administration of medications to the clients in a medical facility . Medication is the induction of formulated chemicals with relatively predictable effects to meet the homeostasis of the body to alleviate an illness . This said medications include the forms of oral medication like tablets and capsules , intravenous medication that may be directly injected in the intravenous line or in the vein itself , subcutaneous medications which may includes the different transdermal patches and subcutaneous injections , and al medications which may

take form of creams or fluid for instillation . Oftentimes , it is the duty of the registered nurse (RN ) to administer and manage patients during and after medication up to the evaluation of the effects of the medicine , but this intervention is collaborative in nature which involves the combined coordination and judgment of the attending physician , the licensed practical nurses , the registered nurses , and the licensed pharmacist This is the ideal setting of medication management of the client under the health care providers , but because of the different shortages in the hospital staffs for the past years and with the overwhelming financial crisis , the unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP ) has been utilized by the hospitals to overcome the understaffing and financial issues of the different medical facilities . While most of the medical institutions are requesting for a more flexible utilization of the UAP 's because of their advantages to the institution , the clients are addressing some quality and safety issues with regards to the use of those unlicensed personnels in place of services , competency , and judgment of a licensed medical practitioner or registered nurses

Unlicensed Assistive Personnel , or UAP , are "individuals who are trained to function in an assistive role to the registered professional nurse in the provision of patient /client care activities as delegated by and under the supervision of the registered professional nurse " ADDIN EN .CITE ANAANAUNLICENSED ASSISTIVE PERSONNEL LEGISLATION -- http /nursingworld .org /gova /hod97 /uap .htm (ANA , 1997 . Those personnels are under the supervision of the registered nurses and practical nurses , and the delegation of task to this personnels especially in medications should not include task that uses professional judgment and interventions because this is an exclusive function of the registered nurses . In medication of the patients , the unlicensed personnels are legally not allowed to administer medications without the supervision of the licensed practitioners or registered nurses because of the possibility of incompetence in the administration of medications in the part of the unlicensed personnels or the possibility of unpredictable situations which may call the use of professional nursing judgment and interventions as in adverse reactions or anaphylaxis

Overview and History of Issues

There have been an increasing number of unlicensed personnels that is hired to assist registered nurses and licensed practical nurses in the hospital routines . Such practices have caught the attention of the clients of health care because of the fact that those personnels are unlicensed yet they are performing task and duties that they often...