Managing Medicines on School premises
Managing Medicines on the School Premises 1 day
This one day (6 hour) course covers relevant information needed to manage and administer medicines on a school premises. The course covers the standards for medicines management in school and early years settings, responsibilities for those administering medicines to children under 16 years old, record keeping, most common medical conditions in a school environment, and gives an overview of “Supporting Pupils at School with Medical Conditions guidance” issued by the Department of Education (UK) in September 2014, which replace previous guidance on Managing Medicines in Schools and Early Years Settings published on March 2005.
This course does not replace administration requirements as specified in a pupil’s individual health care plans, written by the child’s doctor/practitioner.
This is a CPD course adds credits to your Continuing Professional Development.
Syllabus
- Managing Medicines on School premises.
- 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
- Most common medical Conditions in the School environment: Asthma, Diabetes, Epilepsy.
- What is? Symptoms.
- Medication
- Incident management.
- Persons wishing to administer medicines to children on the school premises.
- Anyone working with children that wish to have the knowledge and skills to support pupils at school with medical conditions.
- Helping schools meet the standard for administering medication inline with Supporting Pupils at School with Medical Conditions guidance.
- Understanding the processes involved with medication management in schools.
- Reducing the likelihood of error associated with mismanagement of medicines.
- Managing of the most common medical conditions in the school environment: Asthma, Diabetes and Epilepsy.
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 a 6 hour programme and the certification 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
