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POLICY #: 4.15 Duties and responsibilities of Night Strift Med Passer: 11. Assistance of Jail Medical HealthlMental Health Provider in clinic. PAGE 40F 6 g3 Clinic hours generally are not scheduled during Night Med Passer shift. • Night Med Passer would be expected to assist Provider as outlined below.. • Any Inmate Medical Request/Intake form the Med Passer feels is priority should be verbally communicated to the Provider upon arrival to the Clinic. • The Provider and Med Passer will compile the list of Inmates to be seen. The Med Passer will give the list of Inmates to be seen in the Clinic to the Detention Officer designated by the Shift Supervisor to trensporf/supervise Inmates to the Clinic. • The Med passer will assist the Provider as needed during Ginic, • Med passers will write notes on any special Orders the Provider may give for an Inmate. • Med passer assisting in Clinic is responsible for execution/communication of any orders written during Clinic. • Med passer will communicate with Shift Supervisor/Lieutenant of any behavior concems/suicide watches recommended by Provider during clinic. Inmate charts with mediraiion orders that have been completed should be placed in Medication Completed box, Med Passer receiving new medications from Pharmacy will have these charts to compare new medication orders. • Medications to be initiated as NOW/STAY orders should be transcribed per Jail Protocol on Inmate MAR. • Medication refill forms completed during clinic shall be faxed to Pharmacy facility. These forms should be placed In Medication Completed box for review of Med Passer receiving medications from Pharmacy facilfty, • Treatments should be documented on Inmate MAR per Jail Protocol, Verbal communication to next Med Passer of any unusual treatments/ciroumstances or information Provider wants obtained later in shift should be discussed during shift report. 12. Federal Inmates Responsibilities • Upon arrival of new Federal Inmates, the Med Passer should be available to review Medical History, medication information, Intake form and any new Medical Requests. • Review medications/medical records, if infornation is needed from transferring facilfty, that facility should be contacted immediately and information obtained verbally or faxed to our facility, • Provider should be contacted in reference to information obtained on new Federal Inmates. Orders given should be documerrted in the Inmate chart on a Progress sheet and on MAR as appropriate.. • Obtain list of Inmates leaving the facility from the on Duty Supervisor. • Preparation of Federal Inmates for departure 15 to be done by the Med Passer the day before departure. • Medical recors are to be copied of any Federal Inmate leaving the facilfty.. • Medications are to be packaged for transport with inmate. New FEDERAL.. inmates are to be medically processed by the Daytime or Afternoon Med passers. If emergency sftuations prevent processing from being completed, the Night Med passer should complete pracessing. Verbal communication between off going and on coming Med Passers as to what has been completed is imperative. • Check to see if any Federal medical transport summary sheets confidential envelopes for inmates booked in during that day have not been opened. Open any unopened confidential envelopes to ascertain if any immediate needed medication needs to be orclered before 1730 hours. • Call Medical provider to give order on medication orcler from MAST. • Fax order to MAST for any immediate needed medication. • Read over the medical information on the sheets to ascertain if any needed medical care needs to be done, i.e. TB tests , BP checks, Accu checks, etc... • Puli any immediate needed medication in stock from the cabinet. Sign out the medication from the stock cabinet on a medication receipt in the cabinet.. • Make labels with photo id and adhere to all new medication earls or containers.. Label blank MAR with inmate photo id and write all new medicine information on MAR according to MAR guidelines..