Courses
Foundation Course in Medicines Administration | Shared Lives | Online
This version of our Foundation Course in Medicines Administration is specific to Shared Lives Carers. It teaches how to support with and (if necessary) administer medicines to the person you care for.
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- Print or store certificates
- Videos and interactive content
£42.50
Course overview
Course last audited November 2024
This version of our Foundation Course in Medicines Administration is specific to Shared Lives Carers. It teaches how to support with and (if necessary) administer medicines to the person you care for.
The course also comes with a suite of documentation and medicines charts specific to Shared Lives. The training is up to date with the very latest NICE guidelines for community settings. We are experts in providing medication training to Shared Lives Schemes, having gained many years of experience working with a number of national programmes.
Aimed at
Staff working within Shared Lives Schemes.
Course content
- What’s the difference between self-medication, medicines support and medicines administration?
- When is a medicines chart needed?
- What should the medicines chart look like?
- How to record various scenarios on a medicines chart
- How to check medicines received in monitored dosage systems (blister packs) from the pharmacy
- What is ‘secondary dispensing’ and why should it be avoided?
- How to set up the medicines charts (medicines transcription)
- Where to go for reliable information on medicines
- How to administer medicines safely from blister packs
- How to record medicines taken from blister packs
- How to administer medicines from original packs
- How to record medicines taken from original packs
- How to record variable doses, when required doses, declined doses and other scenarios
- Understanding pharmacy labels
- Medicines expiry dates
- Ordering prescriptions and medicines
- Administering non-prescribed medicines
- Storage and disposal of medicines
- Administering oral liquid medicines
- Administering creams and ointments
- Administering inhalers
- Administering eye drops
Accreditation
This course is accredited by CPD Assessed.
Certification
Mapping
- CQC Quality Statements: QS 7 and 8
- NICE – Management of Medicines in Community Settings, March 2017
- Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014: Regulation 12
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 |