Assisted Living

Ms.RN · Jul 20, 2006

can anyone please tell me if unlicsensed personel can give injections in an assisted living facility in michigan? thank you very much.

i worked as a nurses aide at different assisted living facilities. at one facility, nurses aides can pass oral medications to the residents but nurses administered all the injections. at another facility, belive it or not i adminitered insulin to the resident. when i think about it now, i think this is too dangerous. i wasnt trained to pass medication and didnt know the med terms or differnt types of insulins, peak time or what to do if patient is having a glycemic reaction. so i guess nurses aides can administer injections but it depends on the policy of the facility

NoWaNrN, ASN, RN · Jul 20, 2006

I think the assisted living is tricky on how they get by with things. There was a girl in our class who worked at assisted living in OHIO who helped with injections and oral meds. How they got by with it was they were "assisting" with the meds, and injections. Funny how thing get by.

nurselearst · Jul 21, 2006

Thank you all, I have been pondering this since I left a facility that I was the only nurse or should I say, license, in the place. I am an Lpn, but spent most of my time arguing the right way to do things. I have heard rumors of ulp giving injections(b-12 and others) and passing meds there.

NursKris82 · Aug 2, 2007

i've been an cna in ltc but started out in a asssited living facility. at the first facility i worked i was hired on the spot with no experience or reference check. i never took any class, but passed meds to 10 residents and gave insulin. i didn't know what any of this stuff was back then or the implications of doing things wrong or not doing them. i did well, but when i look back i think- how dumb were they to let me do that? also, i work midnights (just me and one other person) with a dyslexic epileptic (sp?) who told me what to do if she had a seizure during our shift- i was terrified. plus, she couldn't read (no offense, it's true) so she had to look at the picture of the meds in the book to make sure they were the right ones. also, they did med count once a week, this includes narcs. i hope that place has got better, but i look back and realize how dangerous it really was.

NursKris82 · Aug 2, 2007

i also worked at another place where the person in charge was a medical assistant who took a 3 week course to pass meds. i work the 3-11 shift and she was basically in charge. she overmedicated and was borderline abusive- she humiliated some of the people so bad. i reported her but nothing was done. when i first started i noticed a guy go from walking and talking and being full of energy to not being able to even wake up to eat in 1 week. i told them i thought he was over medicated and no one listened to me. he eventually dies of dehydration. it turned out the nurse miswrote the orderr that was to be once a day to once a shift for anti- anxiety meds or whatever it was. i think they got sued- rightfully so. that place was a mess! i quit after 2 mos, i couldn't take it there!

[color=#48d1cc]now that i've passed nursing fundamentals and know more about drugs, i really don't think anyone should [ass them out who's not a nurse with a liscense. you just can't understand the implications unless you're really trained and you won't be mindful enough of the consequences unless you have a liscense to lose.