Kan. Admin. Regs. § 30-42-13

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 49, December 5, 2024

Section 30-42-13 - Health policies

(a) The facility may assist with the taking of medication when the medication is in a labeled bottle dispensed by a pharmacist which clearly shows a physician's orders and when the resident requires assistance because of tremor, visual impairment, or other physical or mental handicapping conditions. The facility may assist the residents with such physical activities as eating, bathing, dressing, help with brace or walker, and transferring from wheelchairs when such assistance is needed on a temporary or intermittent basis.

(b) Each facility shall provide a sanitary environment and shall follow proper techniques of asepsis and isolation for residents with infections and contagious diseases.

(c) All outdated or discontinued medication shall be discarded in the presence of the supervisor.

(d) Each employee infected with a disease in a communicable form or having communicable skin lesions shall be restricted from work until the disease is no longer communicable.

Kan. Admin. Regs. § 30-42-13

Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 1985 Supp. 75-3307b, as amended by L. 1986, Ch. 324, Sec. 2; effective, T-87-20, Sept. 1, 1986; effective May 1, 1987.