Asthma Medication Administration Record

(1) The medical conditions policy of the education and care service must set out practices in relation to the following— (a) the management of medical conditions, including asthma, diabetes or a diagnosis that a child is at risk of anaphylaxis; (b) informing nominated supervisors and staff members of, and volunteers at, the service of practices in relation to managing those medical conditions; (c) the requirements arising if a child enrolled at the education and care service has a specific health care need, allergy or relevant medical condition, including— (i) requiring a parent of the child to provide a medical management plan for the child; and (ii) requiring the medical management plan to be followed in the event of an incident relating to the child's specific health care need, allergy or relevant medical condition; and (iii) requiring the development of a risk-minimisation plan in consultation with the parents of a child— (A) to ensure that the risks relating to the child's specific health care need, allergy or relevant medical condition are assessed and minimised; and (B) if relevant, to ensure that practices and procedures in relation to the safe handling, preparation, consumption and service of food are developed and implemented; and (C) if relevant, to ensure that practices and procedures to ensure that the parents are notified of any known allergens that pose a risk to a child and strategies for minimising the risk are developed and implemented; and (D) to ensure that practices and procedures ensuring that all staff members and volunteers can identify the child, the child's medical management plan and the location of the child's medication are developed and implemented; and (E) if relevant, to ensure that practices and procedures ensuring that the child does not attend the service without medication prescribed by the child's medical practitioner in relation to the child's specific health care need, allergy or relevant medical condition are developed and implemented; and (iv) requiring the development of a communications plan to ensure that— (A) relevant staff members and volunteers are informed about the medical conditions policy and the medical management plan and risk minimisation plan for the child; and (B) a child's parent can communicate any changes to the medical management plan and risk minimisation plan for the child, setting out how that communication can occur. (2) The medical conditions policy of the education and care service must set out practices in relation to self-administration of medication by children over preschool age if the service permits that self-administration. (3) In subregulation (2), the practices must include any practices relating to recording in the medication record for a child of notifications from the child that medication has been self-administered.

(1) The approved provider of an education and care service must ensure that a medication record is kept that includes the details set out in subregulation (3) for each child to whom medication is or is to be administered by the service. (2) A family day care educator must keep a medication record that includes the details set out in subregulation (3) for each child being educated and cared for by the educator as part of a family day care service to whom medication is or is to be administered. (3) The details to be recorded are— (a) the name of the child; (b) the authorisation to administer medication (including, if applicable, self-administration), signed by a parent or a person named in the child's enrolment record as authorised to consent to administration of medication; (c) the name of the medication to be administered; (d) the time and date the medication was last administered; (e) the time and date, or the circumstances under which, the medication should be next administered; (f) the dosage of the medication to be administered; (g) the manner in which the medication is to be administered; (h) if the medication is administered to the child— (i) the dosage that was administered; and (ii) the manner in which the medication was administered; and (iii) the time and date the medication was administered; and (iv) the name and signature of the person who administered the medication; and (v) if another person is required under regulation 95 to check the dosage and administration, the name and signature of that person.

(1) The approved provider of an education and care service must ensure that medication is not administered to a child being educated and cared for by the service unless— (a) that administration is authorised; and (b) the medication is administered in accordance with regulation 95 or 96. (2) The approved provider of an education and care service must ensure that written notice is given to a parent or other family member of a child as soon as practicable, if medication is administered to the child under an authorisation referred to in subregulation (5)(b). (3) A nominated supervisor of an education and care service must ensure that medication is not administered to a child being educated and cared for by the service unless— (a) that administration is authorised; and (b) the medication is administered in accordance with regulation 95 or 96. (4) A family day care educator must ensure that medication is not administered to a child being educated and cared for by the educator as part of a family day care service unless— (a) that administration is authorised; and (b) the medication is administered in accordance with regulation 95 or 96. (5) In this regulation the administration of medication to a child is authorised if an authorisation to administer the medication— (a) is recorded in the medication record for that child under regulation 92; or (b) in the case of an emergency, is given verbally by— (i) a parent or a person named in the child's enrolment record as authorised to consent to administration of medication; or (ii) if a parent or person named in the enrolment record cannot reasonably be contacted in the circumstances, a registered medical practitioner or an emergency service.