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Pet Medication Checklist
The checklist (10 items)
Written as observable actions, so two trainers scoring the same shift land in the same place. In CrewSharp this is the Medication checklist in the Pet care / Daycare starter set, filed under Kennels, and every item here is editable.
- 1Read the written instruction before every doseMust pass
- 2Confirmed the animal's identity against its recordCritical
- 3Checked the drug name on the labelCritical
- 4Measured the dose exactly as writtenCritical
- 5Gave the dose at the scheduled time
- 6Checked the log before giving a doseMust pass
- 7Logged the dose straight after giving itMust pass
- 8Watched the animal swallow the medication
- 9Reported a missed or refused dose to the lead
- 10Stored medication out of reach of animals
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What usually goes wrong
Three items are critical and each one is a check against the written record. Working from memory is how a swap happens on a busy midday round, when every animal and every bottle feels familiar.
The items a good total should not outweigh
- Confirmed the animal's identity against its record
- Checked the drug name on the label
- Measured the dose exactly as written
When to sign someone off
A workable bar for this checklist: no critical items missed, a score above a line you set for Medication specifically rather than one number for the whole building, and observed on more than one shift with at least one of them busy. Then date it, so it can expire.
That last part is the one people skip. A sign-off with no date cannot be re-checked, which means a year later you have a record that says somebody was ready once.
Checklists that pair with this one
Someone trained on this one most often covers these alongside it, which makes them the sensible second checklist to train.
Common questions
Why log medication if it was given correctly?
The log is what prevents a second dose. Without a record, the only thing between an animal and a double dose is one person's recollection during a busy shift.
What should be on a pet medication checklist?
The 10 items above cover it: read the written instruction before every dose, confirmed the animal's identity against its record, checked the drug name on the label, and the rest of the list. Keep it in that range. Fewer and a pass proves very little; many more and trainers stop finishing it during a real shift.
Which items should count as critical?
On this checklist, 3 items are marked critical: confirmed the animal's identity against its record; checked the drug name on the label; measured the dose exactly as written. Missing one means not ready, regardless of the total score, because these are the failures that cannot be corrected after the fact.
Scoring it is the part that lasts
Run this Medication checklist on a tablet between rushes and CrewSharp keeps the rest: who is signed off, when it was last checked, and which item your crew misses most.
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