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Medication Paperwork.

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Elliea123 · 10/02/2009 22:22

I have a new mindee who suffers from eczema, I have a cream provided for him that I have obviously signed all the relevant forms for, however, according to the forms, I have to record every time I apply the cream to the child. He has been with me for only 2 days and I have filled up more than half of one form already. By this rate I will have finished all my forms by next week!!! Do you think I need to carry on with this given the situation? Has anyone else had the same experience?
Thanks in advance.

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nannynick · 10/02/2009 22:36

Are you using your own form of some kind? If not, could you design one to suit that specific purpose - such as it records the date and time at which the medication is applied.

Have you spoken with your insurer? What is their view?

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Elliea123 · 10/02/2009 22:55

I am using the forms in the pack provided by NCMA. I haven't spoken to them yet, thought I'd ask opinions on here first!!

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squirrel42 · 10/02/2009 22:59

Is it a prescription steroid cream or just aqueous cream?

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Elliea123 · 10/02/2009 23:02

It's Diprobase cream and no it's not on prescription.

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squirrel42 · 10/02/2009 23:12

Google tells me that's an emollient, so effectively it's no different to vaseline or nappy cream! I certainly wouldn't class that as a medication for record keeping purposes - wikipedia specifically says it doesn't have any "active ingredients". Is classing it as medication why you were completing the form each time, or do you have a specific separate form for things like administering moisturising cream?

KatyMac · 11/02/2009 07:52

I would just design a form (I have one if you want) then you just get the parent to sign daily

It's on A4 so you would need to print one out every few days/weeks

JenniPenni · 11/02/2009 09:37

No need to do this for diprobase, as mentioned, just get mum to sign on the day ro something. Were it a steroid cream then different. One shouldn't be on a steroid cream for very long. I have excema myself, as do two of my mindees, and we have our little 'beauty routine' when I apply all our own creams

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Elliea123 · 11/02/2009 22:13

Thanks for all your replies, it's been a great help, will now stop recording every time as I already have mum's written permission to apply as frequently as needed.

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