lorettacritchet
12-07-2012, 08:38 PM
I had to apply some ezcema cream to a baby's tummy today, I know with all the usual medication I have permission slips and i always seek verbal permission beforehand too but this ezcema cream wasn't on the slip ....silly question maybe but should i get a medication slip completed? those ones in the accident and incident folders? I don't foresee any other times the mum just forgot to do it this morning.
thanks
Stapleton83
12-07-2012, 09:18 PM
Yes, just to be on the safe side to be honest. Hope that helps.
Sam x
sarah707
13-07-2012, 07:03 AM
You should have a sheet for ongoing non-prescribed medication which covers things like calpol, emollient cream (Diprobase usually), teething gel those sorts of medications - then when you have applied the cream you write it up and ask parents to sign.
With Calpol and anything else that is time sensitive you make sure either 4 hours have passed (in emergency) or parents need to be asked if child has had it already that day.
If it's a steroid cream parents need to sign before you apply it because it is a prescribed medication.
Hth :D