Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Health Professions
 
Board
Board of Nursing
 
chapter
Regulations Governing the Registration of Medication Aides [18 VAC 90 ‑ 60]
Action Initial requirements for registration
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 8/25/2006
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7/9/06  12:00 am
Commenter: Dr. Craig Dreilinger, President, Board of Directors, Innisfree Village

Unintended and adverse consequences of this regulation
 
This regulation will have enormous- and unnecessary- consequences for our community. Ours is a stable group of healthy adults who live most of their adult lives at Innisfree. The care providers are live in volunteers who choose to make their homes with the residents.We currently provide these full-time volunteers with the required 32 hours of medication administration training. The changes proposed would impose non-value added requirements which would impact the very quality of life in our community (e.g., the eight hour insulin module which would undoubtedly be appropriate for a volunteer working with a diabetic resident, if we had one, but not for all volunteers in our community, etc.). Somehow this regulation seems to assume that assisted living facilities share certain features completely in common. Ours does not. We hope this regulation can be rewritten to achieve the goals it aims to and should achieve without imposing penalties on those it does not, or should not, aim to adversely impact. Thank you.
CommentID: 204