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- Medication Administration Record (MAR) Charts in Care Homes: Good . . .
The MAR chart is individual to the person and reflects the items which are still being currently prescribed and administered, together with information about repeat prescriptions for PRN ("when required") medicines
- Medicines administration records in adult social care
If a visiting health professional administers a medicine, you should keep a record of this on the MAR You should only produce a new, handwritten medicines administration record in exceptional circumstances
- GuidanUsing the Medication Administration Record (MAR) c eShe t 1
Administrations of controlled drugs (CDs) should be recorded on the MAR chart as well as in the CD register with the same 2 witness signatures
- Care Home Advice- Medicines Management Guidelines. docx
A record should be made on the MAR chart when the resident has taken each of their prescribed medication and should be completed before moving on to the next resident
- Title: Medicine Administration Record (MAR) Chart - TEWV
For patients in residential care local arrangements should be made to access medicines against the prescription provided by the GP or prescriber external to the Trust with a printed MAR chart being produced and supplied by the community pharmacy
- Guidance about medication personal plans, review, monitoring and record . . .
Consider what items the MAR chart is not appropriate for, for example Warfarin; variable insulin; SIP feeds; dressings; depot injections; Hydroxycobalamin injection, emollients (skin moisturisers), and so on, and develop your own recording sheet
- Principles of safe and appropriate production of medicine . . .
Pharmacists should be aware that once a care service starts to fill in details on a MAR chart the record becomes a confidential administration record which should only be shared with others (including the pharmacist) with the patient, or their representative’s, permission
- Medication Administration Record (MAR) Chart – Completion
Occasionally confusion can arise as to whether completion of a MAR Chart is necessary, and the amount of information to be recorded, so this is just to help clarify the situation
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