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Medication Management

Suitable for Nurses and Carers working within healthcare establishments. This can also be tailored for those supporting people in their own homes.
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Medication Management

Introduction

This one day course gives learners the knowledge to help them to safely and effectively administer and manage medication in a care or support setting.

Course Contents

  • Understanding the regulatory requirements in regard to medications
  • Medication and drug interaction
  • Managing the legal categories of medicines
  • Types of prescriptions and their risk assessment and management
  • Pharmacy medication labels and transcribing
  • The laws regarding the administration and management of medicines
  • Ensuring staff understand administration directions
  • Liquid medications (storage, management and safe administration)
  • Policies for administration
  • Avoidance of double dispensing
  • Drug crushing and covert medication procedures, legal and medical implications
  • Systemic and topical medicines therapeutic windows
  • Infection control considerations for both carers and service users
  • Management and usage of non-prescription medicines including herbal
  • Implementing the 7 rights of administration
  • Practical guidance and training for staff on the giving of medicines, including Oral, Transdermal patches, Inhalers, Eye/ear drops and ointments, Topical (skin)
  • Awareness of administration via other routes, including the requirement and sourcing of specific training
  • Delegated nursing tasks
  • M.A.R.R. sheets, accurate record keeping
  • Sector specific management of controlled drugs
  • Maintenance of medication supplies and procedures for emergency supplies and interims
  • Disposal of unwanted / spoilt medication
  • Managing and recording instructions for the alteration of doses
  • Storage management
  • Side effects and drug interaction
  • Promoting self-administration and assessing the levels and methods of assistance
  • Medication audits and checks
  • The CQC “questions” regarding medications

Course Outcomes

Successful completion of this training course will result in the award of a CPD certificate covering all aspects of the above course contents.

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