Courses
Managing and Administering Controlled Drugs | Online
This course will teach you how to manage and administer controlled drugs in line with legal requirements and 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
£51.50
Course overview
Course last audited November 2024
There is often a lack of formal training around controlled drugs. Staff are often unclear which drugs the legal controls are applied to, and lack training regarding witnessing, recording, and safe storage requirements.
This course will teach you how to manage and administer controlled drugs in line with current legal requirements and national best practice (Controlled drugs: safe use and management, NICE guideline [NG46] April 2016).
The online version of this course contains interactive content throughout to test the learner’s understanding of how to manage and administer controlled drugs. The course uses virtual medicines rounds to teach and assess a learner’s ability to receive, administer, dispose of, and balance check controlled drugs whilst recording these transactions correctly in a Controlled Drugs Register.
We have also designed a new Controlled Drugs Register with the help and advice of two national care organisations. We can train staff to use this during this course.
Aimed at
The course is aimed at managers, care support workers and nurses in care homes, rehabilitation centres, substance misuse centres, hospices and boarding schools. Contact us if you wish us to tailor the course to any other settings.
Course content
- Be aware of the legislation and best practices that govern the management of controlled drugs
- Describe why some medicines are classified as controlled drugs
- Describe the different schedules of controlled drugs and which controlled drugs fit into which schedules
- Demonstrate how to establish which controlled drugs require safe custody
- Explain the role and requirements of the witness
- Demonstrate how to correctly receive, administer, dispose of, and balance check controlled drugs and how to record this
- Understand the rules and recording requirements when a person self-medicates with a controlled drug
- Demonstrate how to deal with stock discrepancies
- Demonstrate how to correct errors in the Controlled Drugs Register
Accreditation
This course is accredited by CPD Assessed.
Certification
Cost
| Per Person | Price (Excluding VAT) |
|---|---|
| 1 | £51.50 |
| 2 - 9 | £50.00 |
| 10 - 24 | £48.00 |
| 25 - 49 | £47.00 |
| 50 - 74 | £46.00 |
| 75 - 99 | £45.00 |
| 100+ | £44.00 |