A client asks a home health aide, called an unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP), to provide medications. Under what conditions can this occur?
a. If the UAP is a nursing student and has taken a pharmacology course
b. If the UAP helps the client to take medication he or she usually self-administers
c. Whenever the client requests a medication
d. Under no circumstances can a UAP give medications in the home
ANS: B
UAPs may administer a medication only as long as the client generally self-administers it and requires minimal assistance.
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