COURSE PURPOSE

This course is designed to prepare the Medicaid Nurse Aide to administer specific medications in a long-term care facility, as delegated and supervised by licensed nurse.

COURSE CONTENT

The course shall include basic principles, techniques and procedures of medication administration in accordance with established guidelines and requirements that direct the limited functions of the Kentucky Medication Aide.

COURSE LENGTH

The Kentucky Medication Administration Course consists of eighty (80) hours. Sixty (60) hours are spent in classroom and laboratory followed by twenty (20) hours in a clinical practicum supervised in a long-term care facility by the instructor.

Pam Bulle
Region 4 KNAT Coordinator BGTC – Glasgow Campus
129 State Avenue
Glasgow, KY 42141
pamela.bulle@kctcs.edu
In Glasgow: 270.651.5673
Outside Glasgow: 270.901.1202