Title 7 . Health and Social Services

Chapter 50 . (Reserved)

Section 875. Medication

7 AAC 50.875. Medication

A residential psychiatric treatment center

(1) shall administer medication in the manner required by 7 AAC 50.440 for a full time care facility;

(2) shall keep a record of the prescription and administration of prescription medicine and over-the-counter drugs in each resident's files and in another master medications file arranged to show in chronological order the prescription and administration of drugs to each resident, with records sorted by each resident's name, and showing all diagnoses for each resident;

(3) shall make the records described in (2) of this section available to the division for review of drug use by the facility relative to the facility's use of drugs for the purpose of identifying and preventing abuse, or inappropriate or unnecessary use of prescribed or over-the-counter drugs;

(4) may not use any medicine or drug for the purpose of sedating or controlling the behavior of a resident; however, a medicine or drug may be used for chemical restraint, subject to the requirements of 7 AAC 50.870;

(5) may not administer a psychotropic or neuroleptic class medicine to a resident unless the use of the medication is part of the resident's treatment plan developed under 7 AAC 50.840 and the use of the medicine has been consented to by the resident's parent, Indian custodian, or guardian after both the clinical director and the prescribing physician have given sufficient information and counseling to the resident's parent, Indian custodian, or guardian to ensure that the parent, Indian custodian, or guardian can give an informed consent or refusal of the use of the particular medicine; the information and counseling must discuss the option of not using the recommended medicine, the potential benefits and disadvantages of the medicine, and alternative medicines or therapies that might reasonably be used to treat the same condition for which the particular medicine is being recommended; and

(6) may not discharge or threaten to discharge a resident because the resident's parent, Indian custodian, or guardian declines to give consent to the use of any recommended medication.

History: Eff. 6/21/2001, Register 158

Authority: AS 44.29.020

AS 47.14.100

AS 47.14.120

AS 47.35.010