SECTION 749.1463. What are the requirements for administering prescription medication?

(a) To the best of their knowledge, caregivers must inform the person legally authorized to give medical consent of the benefits, risks, and side effects of all prescription medication and treatment procedures used and the medical consequences of refusing them, and/or provide the name and telephone number of the prescribing health-care professional for more information.

(b) For prescription medications, caregivers must:

(1) Be informed about possible side effects of medications administered to the child;

(2) Store all medication in the original container unless the caregiver has an additional container with the same label and instructions;

(3) Administer all medications according to the instructions on the label or according to a prescribing health-care professional's subsequent signed orders;

(4) Administer each child's medication within one hour of preparation;

(5) Ensure the child has taken the medication as prescribed;

(6) Ensure a person trained in and authorized to administer medication administers the medication to a child in care unless the child is on a self-medication program;

(7) Maintain any documentation provided by the health-care professional on the administration of current medication;

(8) Not physically force a child to take medication;

(9) Ensure that a child is not given any medication or treatment except on written orders of a health-care professional;

(10) Not borrow or administer medication to a child that is prescribed to another person; and

(11) Not administer medication to more than one child from the same container. Only the child for whom the medication was prescribed may use the medication.

Source Note: The provisions of this §749.1463 adopted to be effective January 1, 2007, 31 TexReg 7469; amended to be effective September 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 7522; amended to be effective January 1, 2017, 41 TexReg 9944; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909