Managing Medicines
In-house course – 6 hour.
This one day (6 hour) course covers relevant information needed to manage and administer medicines. The course covers the standards for medicines management, responsibilities for those administering medicines, record keeping and provides learners with an understanding of medication and prescriptions.
This course does not replace administration requirements as specified in an individual health care plan, written by a doctor.
Syllabus
- Managing Medicines.
- Legal responsibilities.
- Medicines policies.
- Prescribed medicines.
- Controlled drugs.
- Non prescription medicines.
- Individual Health care plans.
- Administering medicines.
- Self management.
- Refusal of medicines.
- Record keeping.
- Insurance.
- Safe storage and disposal of medicines.
- Emergency medicines and procedures.
- Incident management.
- Persons wishing to administer prescription medicines.
- Personnel needing to have the knowledge and skills to manage medicines.
- Understand the processes involved with medication management.
- Reduce the likelihood of error associated with mismanagement of medicines.
- Manage properly the most common medical conditions.
Our assessment methods for this course may include:
- Practical Demonstration.
- Group Discussion.
- Case study.
- Observation of learner’s skills.
- Question and Answer sessions.
This course is delivered as a One-Day programme (6 hour) and the qualification lasts for a period of 3 years. Note: It is recommended that learners refresh their knowledge annually.
In-house training: This course is delivered at your premises anywhere in the UK .
Private Course: We can organise and deliver your course at a location that suits you.
E-learning: You can try our Introduction to safe handling of medicines online course.
