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Avoidable medication errors cost 1,700 lives and more than £98 million to the NHS in England every year. (Source: BMJ Quality and Safety Journal)
Medication can be dangerous when misused but when used effectively is a very powerful tool to alleviate symptoms and improve or prolong a persons life.
Healthcare professionals are not only responsible for the safe delivery of medication but also upholding dignity, encouraging independence and respecting choices the service user/patient makes.
Who is this course for?
Medication Administration training is an excellent refresher course for healthcare professionals with the responsibility of receiving, storing, administering and disposing of medication.
Objectives
- Understand your professional duties and legal obligations
- Recognise the importance of reporting any lapses in care
- Acknowledge your competence limits
- Learn to provide effective verbal and non-verbal support
- Overcome communication barriers for better interaction
- Identify factors affecting individual comfort and dignity
- Obtain valid consent and offer necessary support
- Understand the basics of Pharmacokinetics
- Learn to interpret prescriptions and charts
- Master the non-touch technique for medication preparation
- Know how to verify medication intake
- Understand safe medication disposal
- Keep accurate and updated records
- Apply standard infection control measures
- Understand buccal administration and self-administration
- Understand medication dosage calculation
- Identify and prevent common prescribing errors
- Learn effective ways to escalate concerns
Course content
- Legislation
- The 8 rights of medication administration
- Classification and types of medication
- Routes into the body
- Maintaining records
- Prescribing medication
- Types and reasons for errors
- Storing and disposing of medication
- Buccal administration
- Self-administration and supporting independence
- Contra indications, allergies and overdoses
- Monitoring dosage systems
- Medication calculations
Course benefits
- Certificate lasts for 1 year!
- Reduce the likelihood of errors made whilst administering medicine
- Delivers key information to enhance user/ patient care
