Medication

Who is this for?

This training course is design for anyone with responsibility of safe handling of medicine, obtaining, recording, keeping safe, dispensing, disposing or administrating of medication. Training complies with Skills for Care Knowledge Set on Medication and will be tailored to your organisation’s medication management systems, policies and protocols.

Learning Outcomes:

Awareness of legislations relating to Safe Handling of Medication
Understanding of policies & procedures in care settings
Understanding of limitations of roles & responsibilities of carers in respect to medicines administrations
Awareness of different types and routes of medicine.
Practical demonstration of filling the MAR sheet – risk assessment.
Interactive practical assessment with medications and documentation
Understanding of different levels of medicines administration and support
Learners will also complete an end of session test to ensure that they have applied learning

Duration: 1 day

Further information: This training will be tailored to your organisational needs using your medication forms and MARs charts. To ensure that we are compliant against your organisation we will request a copy of your medication policy and your administration of medication policy prior to completing the training.