Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed 11 bills, including a measure that will allow trained certified nursing assistants to provide medications to nursing-home residents.
Lawmakers passed the bills during the legislative session that ended May 5.
The nursing-home measurel (SB 558) will allow certified nursing assistants to become trained as “qualified medication aides.”
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They will be able to administer what supporters have described as “routine” medications to nursing-home residents, freeing up registered nurses to provide other needed care.
Also, qualified medication aides will be able to perform tasks such as checking residents’ blood glucose levels.
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