24.159.906    MEDICATION AIDE II TRAINING PROGRAM CURRICULUM

(1) The board adopts and incorporates by reference the curriculum content outline as published in the December 2010 report of House Joint Resolution 17, regarding the utilization of medication aides in long-term care nursing homes, except Module 4: Medication Administration, Routes of Administration, (M) Suppositories because a medication aide II is not allowed to administer medications by this route. Copies of the curriculum content outline are available from the Board of Nursing, 301 S. Park Avenue, P.O. Box 200513, Helena Montana, 59620, or can be viewed on the Board of Nursing's web site at www.nurse.mt.gov.

(2) The medication aide II must also receive training in the subcutaneous injection of insulin from labeled and preset or predrawn insulin delivery device(s).

History: 37-8-426, MCA; IMP, 37-8-423, MCA; NEW, 2011 MAR p. 2144, Eff. 10/14/11; AMD, 2015 MAR p. 642, Eff. 5/29/15.