Medication records: the details inspectors actually check

A compliant medication record needs written parental consent, the child's specific instructions, the medicine's name and label, dosage, time given, who administered it, a signature, and any adverse reaction or follow-up — with the medicine itself safely labelled and stored. Tusla's inspection tool checks both the policy and whether it's actually being followed, which is the right way to check it: a medication policy that reads well on paper says nothing about whether the log behind it is complete.

Medication is a genuinely separate concern from allergies, even though they get mentioned in the same breath. Allergy management is about prevention — keeping a known trigger away from a child. Medication is about a specific, authorised administration event, and it needs its own authorisation on file before anyone gives it, and its own log of the actual administration, not just the standing permission.

Bloomffy logs each real administration event as its own row, separate from the standing authorisation a parent signs once. A parent's permission to give a medication and the record that it was actually given on a specific day, at a specific time, by a specific person, are two different facts, and only recording the first one is the gap that shows up when an inspector asks to see today's actual log against today's actual need.