Courses
Assessing Staff Competence to Administer Medicines
This course will provide you with the skills, knowledge, and materials to assess staff competence to administer medicines.
- Live webinar with our trainer
- Opportunity to ask questions
- No need to travel to the training
- Dates throughout the year
£250.00
- Private session just for your team
- We can deliver this via webinar on in person at your venue
- Price on application (depending on the format you choose)
Course overview
Course last audited November 2024
This course provides the skills, knowledge, and the materials to assess staff competence to administer medicines.
You will practice assessing people administering various dosage forms, using direct observation against a set of structured competence assessment checklists.
Format:
- An online Foundation Course to learn how to administer medicines systematically
- Two 2-hour webinars to practice assessing using our competence checklists
- A final online video-based module to assess your assessment skills.
Learners must complete this last module within 4 months. Refer to our assessors FAQs for more details.
2025 Dates (10am – 12pm)
2nd and 9th April 2025 – SOLD OUT
17th and 24th April 2025
7th and 14th May 2025
22nd and 29th May 2025
3rd and 10th June 2025
24th June and 1st July
15th and 22nd July 2025
24th and 31st July 2025
6th and 13th August 2025
Aimed at
Care staff and nurses who assess staff competence to administer medication.
Pre-Learning
We you to have completed our own online or in-person foundation course within the previous 6 months (access to our online foundation course is included for those who require it).
Visit our Assessors FAQ page (click here) for an explanation and more details.
Course content
- Describe the legal/best practice requirements for assessing staff competence
- Tailor the direct observation checklist to your own organisation
- Observe someone administering the following dosage forms and state if they are competent or not:
- Solid oral medicines (tablets, capsules etc.) from original packs
- Solid oral medicines (tablets, capsules etc.) from monitored dosage (blister) packs – optional additional content if needed
- Oral liquids
- Topical medicines (creams, ointments etc.)
- Inhalers
- Eye drops
Accreditation
This course is accredited by CPD Assessed.
Certification
Mapping
- The Care Certificate
- CQC Quality Statements: QS 1, 7 and 8
- NICE – Management of Medicines in Care Homes, March 2014
- NICE – Management of Medicines in Community Settings, March 2017
- Health and Social Care Act (Regulated Activities) 2014
Cost
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Upcoming course dates
With this virtual version of the course:
This course will provide you with the skills, knowledge, and materials to assess staff competence to administer medicines.
Please select your course date from the options.