Medication Management in Residential Aged Care

Team

Managing a team incorporates:

• Managing the activities of clinical nursing staff.
• Team members providing information to support clinical decision making.
• Maintaining continuous quality improvement initiatives planning and development of action strategies e.g. MAC.
• Responding to the changes in role which requires nurses to increase their skills in mentoring.

 

Knowledge

Demonstrate understanding of:

• duty of care and associated responsibilities relevant to scope of practice – not just about medicines but about all care, and
• importance of communicating right information to support clinical decision making.

Skills

Demonstrate ability to:

• use team management skills - coordination
• build communication strategies and practices within the team
• structure the team and delegate responsibilities in accordance with resident needs, and
• performance manage the team to achieve desired health outcomes for residents.

Tasks

• Co-ordination of team.
• Build and maintain appropriate and efficient communication channels with team members.
• Understand and communicate roles and responsibilities of individual team members.