Medication management in Logan for NDIS participants, at home, by MediHealth Connect registered nurses and the support workers they train. We keep your medication chart accurate, check your Webster pack against it, give injections, and pull your GP and pharmacist into the loop when your medicines need a second look.
Ask a Logan family what worries them most about a relative with disability living at home and medication is usually near the top. Did the morning tablets get taken? Was the PRN given twice? Has the new script from Logan Hospital reached the pharmacy? Was the insulin dose right? These are reasonable worries, and NDIS medication support in Logan is designed to take them off the family's shoulders.
The service works by giving one registered nurse responsibility for your medicines, from the accuracy of the chart to the competence of the support workers who administer from it, with prescribers and pharmacist kept informed of each other's changes. The level of support can be as light as a daily prompt or as involved as full nursing medication management. The safeguards are the same at every level.
Queensland's Medicines and Poisons Act 2019 and the NDIS Practice Standards define three levels of medication support and who may provide each.
You remain in charge of your own medicines. A support worker reminds you when a dose is due, opens packaging if needed and records that it was taken.
A trained support worker or nurse gives the dose and charts it. Under our medication policy, support workers who have completed training and competency assessment may administer from a dose administration aid. Injections, medicines needing clinical judgement and most Schedule 8 medicines are given by a registered nurse.
A registered nurse holds clinical responsibility for your regime: reviewing each medicine and its purpose, monitoring for side effects and interactions, keeping the chart current, liaising with your GP and pharmacist and supervising the workers who administer.
Your Logan pharmacy fills the pack; we make sure the scripts behind it are current, compare it with the chart and then either remind you at each dose time or give the dose ourselves, whichever your plan provides for.
Everything from tablets and liquids to creams, patches, drops, inhalers and suppositories, charted as it is given. As-needed medicines are given only when the prescriber's written conditions are met, and every worker learns those conditions before their first shift with you.
A registered nurse comes to your home to give insulin, anticoagulants, depot medications and other injectables, confirming the dose against the prescription first and checking blood glucose where it is relevant. Participants and carers who want to self-inject can be taught.
A single chart that is corrected the day a script changes and rebuilt from the discharge summary after any admission to Logan Hospital. Duplicates, interactions and medicines with no obvious purpose are referred to your GP and pharmacist for review.
Most medication harm in the community comes from small gaps rather than dramatic mistakes. Our medication management services in Logan close the gaps.
Our medication management services cover Logan City Council's area. Nurses and support workers are rostered from within Logan so that medication times are met and cover can be arranged at short notice.
Central: Logan Central, Woodridge, Kingston, Slacks Creek
North: Springwood, Rochedale South, Shailer Park
South: Beenleigh, Eagleby, Waterford
West: Browns Plains, Regents Park, Boronia Heights
East: Loganholme, Cornubia
Medication support is part of our community nursing service in Logan. If medication is one element of complex care, such as PEG administration or seizure rescue medication, see our Logan high intensity supports. Our guide to NDIS medication management explains the basics, and the medication management overview covers South East Queensland.
Support worker assistance and administration are normally funded from your Core budget as part of assistance with daily life. Nursing medication management in Logan is funded from Core as a disability-related health support where the need relates to your disability. The medicines themselves are covered by the PBS and Medicare rather than the NDIS.
If your plan has no medication support in it, the NDIA needs your GP's evidence about your regime and the risks of error, plus a clinical assessment, which our nurses can provide. A Logan support coordinator can help you request a review or variation.
In many situations, yes. A support worker who has completed our medication training and competency assessment can prompt you, help you take your medicines and administer from a Webster pack, provided we hold a current medication chart. Injections, medicines that need a clinical decision and most Schedule 8 medicines are administered by a registered nurse.
Your pharmacy packs it. Our nurses confirm that the pack matches your current prescriptions and your chart, administer from it, and alert the pharmacy and your GP the same day if there is a discrepancy.
Yes. Registered nurses give subcutaneous and intramuscular injections at home across Logan, including insulin, anticoagulants and depot medications, as prescribed. Where self-injection is a goal, we can train you or a carer to do it safely.
The missed dose is recorded and the prescriber's or pharmacist's advice for that medicine is followed. You and your GP are informed if it matters clinically, and the event is logged as a medication incident so we can work out why it happened and stop it recurring.
Yes, where the need is related to your disability. Support worker assistance and administration are usually funded from Core as daily living supports, and nursing medication management from Core as a disability-related health support. The medicines themselves are a PBS and Medicare cost.