Health & Safety

Alerts & Updates

• Healthy Living-Observe! Decide! Act!
  • Aspiration, Aspiration Pneumonia, and Choking
  • Burn Prevention & Safety
  • Constipation and Bowel Obstruction
  • COVID-19
  • Dehydration
  • Flu Prevention
  • GERD
  • Incidence and Prevention of Falls
  • Medication Errors
  • Polypharmacy 
  • Preventing Heat Related Illness
  • Pulse Oximetry and COVID-19 
  • Seizures
  • Sepsis
  • Winter Weather Health & Safety Tips 
• A Guide to Understanding Bed Bugs
• Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
• Just Not Right
• Health & Senior Services Health Alerts, Advisories & Updates
• Nursys e-Notify
• Long-haul COVID Information for DSPs, Nurses, and Health Care Providers
• Long-haul COVID Quick Reference Guide
• Long-haul COVID Information for Families and People with IDD

Prevention

• Flu Vaccines
• Developmental Disabilities and Oral Health
• Elks Dental Program
• "The Fatal Five":  Preventing Preventable Deaths in Community Settings
• MedlinePlus
• Medscape

Quality

• Quality Enhancement RN Roster
• Contacts to Process Med Aide Certification by County
• QE Unit
• MO State Board of Nursing
• National Council

Med Aide Administration

All requests for information about Med Aide Administration should be sent to medaide@dmh.mo.gov. 

Med-Aide Certification List