Administration of Medication
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This one day course aims to ensure that social care staff understand safe practices when administering medication. Covering the law & medicines - drugs act safe storage of medicines, routes of administration, abbreviations used, drug sensitivities/allergies, principles & recording errors in administration.
This can also be delivered as a half day update.
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Further Details
Who Should Attend?
This care course is aimed at all social care workers who may be expected to assist in administering medication.
Course Programme
Legal position on medicine administration
General guidance for good practice
Members of the community team
Assisting medication
Responsibilities of the care workers and organisation
Guidelines on the use of medication administration aids
Expectations of care workers
Ensuring: right medication is taken, administering from compliance aids, without compliance aids, administering in the right way, the right time, correct dosage, recording of administering, actions to be taken when medication administration errors occur
Storage and disposal of medication
Student Workshop
Each individual student will need to pass the course test paper and also undergo an assessment of competence, before being passed for this course.
This Training Course is offered "in house" at the following locations:
Carlisle
Tonbridge
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