Category: SB 131
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Senate Bill 131 and Ohio Medication Aides: Whatever Happened to “Safety First”?
The discipline of Ohio Medication Aide (MA-C [Medication Aide-Certified]) was initiated in 2009. Obviously, the creation of the discipline was a concession that nurses in long-term care spend too much time passing medications. If that was true in 2009, it is exceedingly true now; the long-term care nursing discipline is dominated by medication administration,…