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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
Medication Administration Training
Accredited by
The CPD Standards Office
= 4 hours of CPD
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.
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.
- 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
- Legislation
- The 8 rights of medication administration
- Classification and types of medication
- Routes into the body
- Maintaining records
- Prescribing medication
- Buccal administration
- Types and reasons for errors
- Storing and disposing of medication
- Self-administration and supporting independence
- Contra indications, allergies and overdoses
- Monitoring dosage systems
- Medication calculations
Many new and valuable points learned to be taken into my clinical practice, but also a lot of information revised and revisited. Great session. - Maria Demetriou
Invaluable information that can easily be overlooked. An excellent course! - Annah Pisah
Professional, recommend for all carers/ nurses! - Emese Haulik
