Medication Awareness
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Who is it for?
This course is suitable residential or domiciliary care workers requiring level 1 or level 2 medicine awareness training, as outlined in the CSCI guidance to inspectors. It will also benefit Care Workers undertaking training in the Skills for Care Knowledge set on Medication or care workers undertaking NVQ Unit HSC375.
Medication Awareness Course Content:
Key CSCI definitions on medicine awareness
Care values
Legislation, Policy and procedures
Classification of medicines
Types of medicines
Maintaining medication records
collection, storage, disposal medicines
Safe handling of medicines
Supporting self-administration
Administration of medicines
Reporting mistakes, recognising and reporting changes
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Further Details
This newly revised course provides the underpinning knowledge required for residential and domiciliary care workers to: (1) support service users who are self-medicating; and (2) administer medication within their care setting (referred too as level 1 and level 2 training in the CSCI Guidance to Inspectors). The course is based on the Skills for Care knowledge set on medication, and Care Workers who are undertaking their NVQ will benefit from this course as it is mapped to units HSC221, HSC236 and HSC375. In line with CSCI regulations the course is only delivered by Nurses who are currently registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
This Training Course is offered "in house" at the following locations:
Birmingham
Bromley
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