lomagg2

Thank you for the responses! I am looking at doing a permission form when the medications are dropped off instead of a separate MAR like used in the past!

This is my first year as a school nurse, and I feel like I am finding a bunch of places where double work is present. Here is the situation of how things were done in the past. We require any medication that is dropped off to be in its original container plus have the prescription label (if it is a prescription) with it's "instructions" on it (frequency, time to be given, dosage, etc). However, they also wanted parents to fill out a paper MAR (even though we chart it all on the computer) and wanted them to fill out all the same information that is already on the prescription label. So my question is what do you guys do as far as paperwork/charting for medications from a doctor??