HAR §11-100.1-15. Medications

(a) All medicines prescribed by physicians and dispensed by pharmacists shall be deemed properly labeled so long as no changes to the label have been made by the licensee, primary care giver or any ARCH/Expanded ARCH staff, and pills/medications are not removed from the original labeled container, other than for administration of medications. The storage shall be in a staff controlled work cabinet-counter apart from either resident's bathrooms or bedrooms. (b) Drugs shall be stored under proper conditions of sanitation, temperature, light, moisture, ventilation, segregation, and security. Medications that require storage in a refrigerator shall be properly labeled and kept in a separate locked container. (c) Separate compartments shall be provided for each resident's medication and they shall be segregated according to external or internal use. (d) Appropriate liquid medicine measuring devices shall be available and in use when liquid medicine is made available. 100.1-28 27