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  "urn": "urn:us-la:rs:37:1024",
  "title_number": "37",
  "section_number": "1024",
  "citation": "R.S. 37:1024",
  "heading": "Authorized and prohibited functions of medication attendants",
  "text": "A. The authorized functions of the medication attendant are:\n\n(1) Deliver and administer medications ordered by a physician or dentist to residents with the supervision of a registered nurse.\n\n(2) Record in the client's chart doses delivered to and/or administered to the client.\n\n(3) Chart drug effects and side effects.\n\n(4) Obtain vital signs as indicated or ordered.\n\n(5) Deliver pro re nata \"PRN\", as needed, medications when authorized by a licensed physician, dentist, or registered nurse. This authorization must be documented in writing within twenty-four hours.\n\nB. The prohibited functions of the medication attendant are:\n\n(1) May not give medications by intramuscular, intravenous, or subcutaneous routes.\n\n(2) May not administer medications by the oral inhalant aerosol route unless administering a premeasured dosage unit provided by the manufacturer.\n\n(3) May not receive or assume responsibility for reducing to writing oral or telephone orders from a physician.\n\n(4) May not alter medication dosages as delivered from the pharmacy, unless authorized by a physician or dentist.\n\n(5) May not administer medication in an acute care unit funded or operated by the Louisiana Department of Health and/or the Department of Children and Family Services.",
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      "number": "37",
      "name": "PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS"
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      "number": "11-A",
      "name": "MEDICATION ATTENDANTS AND DIRECT SERVICE WORKERS"
    },
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      "level": "part",
      "number": "I",
      "name": "MEDICATION ATTENDANTS"
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