Courses
Foundation Course in Medicines Administration | Personal Assistants | Online
This online Foundation Workshop is specific for personal assistants. It provides the skills and knowledge to administer medicines in line with national best practice.
- Learn at your own pace
- Instant assessment and results
- Print or store your certificate
- Videos and interactive content
- Bulk discounts for 2+ courses
- Free manager dashboard for 10+ courses
- Print or store certificates
- Videos and interactive content
£42.50
Course overview
Course last audited November 2024
This online version of our Foundation Workshop is for Personal Assistants. It provides the skills and knowledge to administer medicines in line with the latest national best practice.
The training also comes with a selection of documentation such as charts and forms that you can download and use to manage medicines such as: medicines charts, a medicines support assessment, a when required protocol, a confirmation of advice to administer a non-prescribed medicine form, and a medicines disposal form.
Aimed at
Personal assistants who provide medicines support to people in their own homes.
Course content
- Establishing if the person needs any support with their medicines
- What medicines paperwork is required
- When is a medicines chart required?
- Recording medicines that the person self medicates with
- Building an accurate list of the person’s medicines
- Checking medicines that you receive
- Breakdown of a pharmacy label
- Cautionary and advisory labels
- Expiry/period after opening dates
- Non-prescribed medicines and drug interactions
- Information about medicines and side effects
- Consent
- When medicines are declined
- Medicines disposal
- Safe storage of medicines
- Administering tablets and capsules
- Administering oral liquids
- Administering topicals (medicines applied to the skin)
- Administering inhalers
- Administering eye drops
Accreditation
This course is accredited by CPD Assessed.
Certification
Mapping
- CQC Quality Statements: QS 7 and 8
- Care certificate standard 13: Health and safety
- Managing medicines for adults receiving care in the community. NICE guidelines, 2017
Cost
| Per Person | Price (Excluding VAT) |
|---|---|
| 1 | £42.50 |
| 2 - 9 | £40.00 |
| 10 - 24 | £37.50 |
| 25 - 49 | £35.00 |
| 50 - 74 | £32.50 |
| 75+ | £30.00 |