We are still getting calls from facilities that have been cited from licensing for lack of Medication Training. If you have completed the live medication class or the medications training on line then the problem usually is that the shadowing part has not been completed.
Shadowing has to happen in the facility and should be individualized training. You can not complete this part of the training in a class. Be sure to have documentation that this training is completed for yourself and all of your staff.
The other items that you may have overlooked are that every employee needs to pass the medication test and have the documentation in the files. The test also has to be completed in the facility. You should have in each employees file, documentation that they have completed the classroom training (four hours for 15 beds or less and eight hours for more than 15 beds), completed the shadowing (2 hours for 15 beds or less and eight hours for more than 15 beds), and then a copy of the completed test.
The employees do not have to repeat the shadowing or take another test each year but they do need to have four hours of annual training on medications. This applies to all employees who currently do or might pass medications.
