As the health care industry’s most comprehensive library of customizable policy and procedure templates, MCN Healthcare’s Hospice Policy and Procedure Manual includes this customizable template, Medication Monitoring. MCN’s policy library helps you meet compliance with Joint Commission and federal regulations including CMS, CDC, OSHA, OIG, HIPAA and more.

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Here is some sample content from Medication Monitoring:

	PURPOSE: To define the ongoing medication monitoring process for the Hospice patient. POLICY: Ongoing patient medication monitoring will use a collaborative approach between Hospice staff, physician, pharmacist and patient, family or caregiver. The results of patient medication monitoring will be used to improve the patient's medication regimen. The ongoing monitoring will occur in accordance with the established goals of therapy and be used to: Evaluate the continued use of a medication in this current regimen Evaluate patient adherence to the prescribed medication regimen PROCEDURE: ...
Second excerpt:
	...on the patient. The clinical effects of medications will be obtained through direct observation during assessments performed during home visits and review of assessment information as well as clinical results of diagnostic studies. Review of the information gathered from the above activities will be shared by Hospice staff, with appropriate physicians and pharmacists, as well as during the interdisciplinary team meeting. The information obtained through patient medication monitoring will...