The essential information needed to ensure safe and accurate medication management for individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Learn how to implement a standardized approach to medication management, review regulatory and provider agency criteria for evaluation, and ensure fundamental rights are preserved.

DDNA’s Position Paper on Medication Management for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and its accompanying Best Practice Guidelines provide a comprehensive overview of medication management practices across the continuum of care.

These newly-developed Guidelines are essential for standardizing medication management practices to promote accurate medication management for persons with IDD. The Guidelines are founded upon the 3rd edition of DDNA’s Practice Standards for Developmental Disability Nursing (2020), specifically the process criteria for Standards I-X.

Regulatory and provider agencies that monitor or provide medication management services to persons with IDD are strongly encouraged to evaluate this DDNA Position Paper on Medication Management for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and DDNA’s Best Practice Guidelines for Medication Management to determine relevance and applicability across the continuum of their programs and settings.   

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