10a NCAC 26d .1105      PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATION EDUCATION

(a)  To ensure the client's understanding of psychotropic medication, individual or group medication education shall be provided to each client:

(1)           who is to begin receiving, or is to be maintained on, psychotropic medication; and

(2)           by the prescribing physician or other person approved by the physician;

(b)  Medical education that has been provided to a client shall be documented in the client's record.

History Note:        Authority G.S. 148‑19(d);

Eff. January 4, 1994;

Readopted Eff. March 1, 2019.