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Miami Regional College
MSN 5400: Health Care Policy and Delivery Systems
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Literature Review
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Policy History
What has been done prior to this policy being built? What are prior policies or laws that
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Beneficiaries / Outcomes
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Financial Impact
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Support System
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Statistics
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source. Example of primary sources are the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
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Nursing, Commission on Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization, Center for
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Nurse Practitioner Role
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issue. To inform Viewpoint readers about the most pressing legislative topics of interest to
nurses. Describe how nurses' influence on policy making and the legislative process takes place
or how you plan or foresee this taking place. Why has this topic sparked nurses' interest in the
legislative process? Demonstrate the importance of nurses' collective voice. Explain what nurses
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References (centered, not bold)
American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological
Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
You next reference.
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Appendix A(centered, not bold)
CHAPTER 2018-107
Committee Substitute for
Committee Substitute for House Bill No. 1373
An act relating to medication administration; amending s. 393.506, F.S.;
revising training requirements for unlicensed direct service providers to
assist with the administration of or to supervise the self-administration of
medication under certain circumstances; providing validation requirements for the competency and skills of unlicensed direct service providers;
requiring unlicensed direct service providers to complete an annual
inservice training course in medication administration and medication
error prevention developed by the Agency for Persons with Disabilities;
providing construction; requiring the validation and revalidation of
competency for certain medication administrations to be performed
with an actual client; requiring the agency to adopt rules; providing an
effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
Section 1.
393.506
Section 393.506, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
Administration of medication.—
(1) An unlicensed A direct service provider who is not currently licensed
to administer medication may supervise the self-administration of medication or may administer oral, transdermal, ophthalmic, otic, rectal, inhaled,
enteral, or topical prescription medications to a client if the unlicensed direct
service provider meets the requirements of as provided in this section.
(2) In order to supervise the self-administration of medication or to
administer medications as provided in subsection (1), an unlicensed a direct
service provider must satisfactorily complete an initial a training course
conducted by an agency-approved trainer of not less than 6 4 hours in
medication administration and be found competent to supervise the selfadministration of medication by a client and or to administer medication to a
client in a safe and sanitary manner. Competency must be assessed and
validated at least annually in an onsite setting and must include personally
observing the direct service provider satisfactorily:
(a) The competency of the unlicensed direct service provider to supervise
and administer otic, transdermal, and topical medication must be assessed
and validated using simulation during the initial training course, and need
not be revalidated annually. Supervising the self-administration of medication by a client; and
(b) Competency must be validated initially and revalidated annually for
oral, enteral, ophthalmic, rectal, and inhaled medication administration.
The initial validation and annual revalidations of medication administration
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must be performed onsite with an actual client using the client’s actual
medication and must include the validating practitioner personally observing the unlicensed direct service provider satisfactorily:
1. Supervising the oral, enteral, ophthalmic, rectal, or inhaled selfadministration of medication by a client; and
2. Administering medication to a client by oral, enteral, ophthalmic,
rectal, or inhaled medication routes.
(c)1. An unlicensed direct service provider who completes the required
initial training course and is validated in the oral or enteral route of
medication administration is not required to retake the initial training
course unless he or she fails to maintain annual validation in the oral or
enteral route, in which case, the provider must complete the initial 6-hour
training course again and obtain all required validations before he or she
may supervise the self-administration of medication by a client or administer medication to a client.
2. If the unlicensed direct service provider has already completed an
initial training course of at least 4 hours and has a current validation for oral
or enteral routes of medication administration on or before July 1, 2018, he
or she is not required to complete the initial 6-hour training course. If for any
reason the unlicensed direct service provider fails to meet the annual
validation requirement for oral or enteral medication administration, or the
annual inservice training requirement in subsection (4), the unlicensed
direct service provider must satisfactorily complete the initial training
course again and obtain all required validations before he or she may
supervise the self-administration of medication by a client or administer
medication to a client.
3. If an unlicensed direct service provider has completed an initial
training course of at least 4 hours but has not obtained validation for otic,
transdermal, or topical medication administration before July 1, 2018, that
direct service provider must obtain validation before administering otic,
transdermal, and topical medication, which may be performed through
simulation.
(3) Only an unlicensed direct service provider who has met the training
requirements of this section and who has been validated as competent may
administer medication to a client. In addition, a direct service provider who
is not currently licensed to administer medication may supervise the selfadministration of medication by a client or may administer medication to a
client only if the client, or the client’s guardian or legal representative, has
given his or her informed written consent.
(4) An unlicensed direct service provider must annually and satisfactorily complete a 2-hour agency-developed inservice training course in
medication administration and medication error prevention conducted by
an agency-approved trainer. The inservice training course shall count
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toward annual inservice training hours required by agency rules or by the
rules of the Agency for Health Care Administration. This subsection may not
be construed to require an increase in the total number of hours required for
annual inservice training for direct service providers. Administering
medication to a client.
(3) A direct service provider may supervise the self-administration of
medication by a client or may administer medication to a client only if the
client, or the client’s guardian or legal representative, has given his or her
informed consent to self-administering medication under the supervision of
an unlicensed direct service provider or to receiving medication administered by an unlicensed direct service provider. Such informed consent must
be based on a description of the medication routes and procedures that the
direct service provider is authorized to supervise or administer. Only a
provider who has received appropriate training and has been validated as
competent may supervise the self-administration of medication by a client or
may administer medication to a client.
(5)(4) The training, determination of competency, and initial and annual
validations validation required in this section shall be conducted by a
registered nurse licensed pursuant to chapter 464 or by a licensed practical
nurse in accordance with the requirements of chapter 464. A physician
licensed pursuant to chapter 458 or chapter 459 may validate or revalidate
competency.
(6)(5) The agency shall establish by rule standards and procedures that
an unlicensed a direct service provider must follow when supervising the
self-administration of medication by a client and when administering
medication to a client. Such rules must, at a minimum, address qualification
requirements for trainers, requirements for labeling medication, documentation and recordkeeping, the storage and disposal of medication, instructions concerning the safe administration of medication or supervision of selfadministered medication, informed-consent requirements and records, and
the training curriculum and validation procedures. The agency shall adopt
rules to establish methods of enforcement to ensure compliance with this
section.
Section 2.
This act shall take effect July 1, 2018.
Approved by the Governor March 23, 2018.
Filed in Office Secretary of State March 23, 2018.
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