Drugs & Medication Awareness

Our two hour Drugs & Medication awareness course can be delivered at your workplace for groups of between 5 and 20 employees to bring your staff quickly up to date with the latest regulatory changes and current best practice. By delivering the training conveniently on your premises we can not only minimise disruption to daily operations, but also taylor the course to reflect the specific policies & procedures of your organisation.

This certificated course is used as evidence towards NVQ Level 2 & 3 in Health & Social Care

This two hour course covers the following topics and can be adapted as required to include the policies and reinforce the practices of individual organisations.

-- Range of medications
-- Safe practice
-- Common drugs and their effects
-- Common drugs for the elderly
-- Recording
-- Safe storage
-- Regulations & procedures for administering
-- Safe administering
-- Legislation
-- Mental Capacity Act 05
-- DoL 09
-- Good practice

Optional:-

Antipsychotic drugs, their uses and side effects
Anticonvulsive drugs, their uses and side effects

We specialise in delivering effective, affordable & enjoyable training.

We deliver a number of topics for the Care Profession and can taylor courses to suit your company needs and combine short courses to deliver multi-topic training days at your premises to minimise disruption to routines.