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Medications Activity Goal: To accurately demonstrate the ability to assist in the administration of medications. Directions: 1. Set up the classroom with various stations. At each station there will be a different medication situation. 2. Students rotate through the stations, addressing the situations and documenting their actions. Stations: The following are suggested stations and are considered a minimal for this activity. Instructors should adapt the activity to challenge students with 'real' situations that they will encounter in the field. 1. Eye drops: The client is recovering from cataract surgery on his left eye. The care plan states that he is to be given three drops in the eye during your visit. Demonstrate using a mannequin. Document your actions. 2. Liquid medication: The care plan for your client specifies that she is to be given liquid cough medication at 2 pm. Read the label on the medication and pour the appropriate amount in the medication cup. Document your actions. 3. Ear drops: The client is four years old and has an ear infection. You are in the family home providing assistance to the family because the mother is recovering from a car accident and the father is at work. Demonstrate using a mannequin (child mannequin if one is available) the correct technique to give ear drops. Document your actions. 4. Tablets: Your client has Parkinson's disease and severe tremors in his hands. The care plan states that the PSW is to assist him by opening the medication bottle and giving him the appropriate oral medication. Read the medication bottle label. Demonstrate the proper technique to pour tablets out of the bottle to give to the client. Document your actions. 5. Liquid medication: You are assisting the RN with medications in an Alzheimer's residential unit. The RN has just given a resident liquid medication. The resident spits the medication all over the floor. Document your actions. NACC 2015 V.3 Section IV. Performance Demonstration - Assisting a Person with Medications 67

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