Registered Professional Nurses' Responsibility

Requirement

A Registered Professional Nurse (RN) must verify that an individual has completed AMAP training and competency approved program before allowing an individual to work as a medication administrative unlicensed personnel. The RN must keep a record of accessing the registry, or contacting the OHFLAC office and must note each incidence of access in their business files. Proof of access can be in the form of a screen print out of the online look-up, or the completion of a “Verification” form (AMAP-6).

Before allowing the unlicensed personnel to administer medications, the RN must conduct a clinical skills validation for those medication tasks to be performed in the facility. The validation must be conducted by a registered nurse.

RNs must also verify any listing on the Nurse Aide Abuse Registry prior to employing an individual as an unlicensed medication employee. A substantiated finding on the Nurse Aide Abuse Registry disqualifies the candidate from being granted the privilege to administer medication in a facility listed in the “Medication Administrative by Unlicensed Personnel.”

Voluntary Participation

This program is a voluntary program. A facility who decides to implement training of unlicensed personnel to administer medications must follow certain steps in order to proceed with the program.

  1. Review the rules and regulations defined by the state of West Virginia.
  2. Employ or contract with an OHFLAC authorized registered professional nurse to train the trainee.
  3. Develop polices procedure in conjunction with the authorized professional.
  4. Submit policies and procedure to OHFLAC for approval.
  5. Arrange for the registered professional nurse to complete the AMAP-RN Orientation Web-CT course.
  6. Select unlicensed personnel who meet required qualifications to be trained.
  7. Assure ongoing monitoring and supervising of the approved medication assistive personnel (AMAP) by the registered professional nurse.
  8. Provide for retraining of AMAP’s every two years by the authorized RN.