37.106.2847    MEDICATIONS: PRACTITIONER ORDERS

(1) Medication and treatment orders shall be carried out as prescribed. The resident has the right to consent to or refuse medications and treatments. The practitioner shall be notified if a resident refuses consent to an order. Subsequent refusals to consent to an order shall be reported as required by the practitioner.

(2) A prescription medication for which the dose or schedule has been changed by the practitioner must be noted in the resident's medication administration record and the resident's service or health care plan by an appropriate licensed health care professional.

History: Sec. 50-5-103, 50-5-226 and 50-5-227, MCA; IMP, Sec. 50-5-225, 50-5-226 and 50-5-227, MCA; NEW, 2002 MAR p. 3638, Eff. 12/27/02; AMD, 2004 MAR p. 1146, Eff. 5/7/04.