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MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION TRAINING – FOUNDATION COURSE – SHARED LIVES AND FOSTER CARE – FACE-TO-FACE – HALF DAY

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Course overview

This version of our Foundation Course in Medicines Administration is specific to Shared Lives Carers and Foster Carers. It teaches how to support with and (if necessary) administer medicines to the person you care for/support. 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 many years experience working with several national schemes.

Aimed at

Shared lives and foster carers.

Format

Face-to-face workshop + handout

Duration

4 hours

Certification

Two years (click here for details)

Course mapping

  • NICE – Management of Medicines in Community Settings, March 2017
  • Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014: Regulation 12

Course price

£750 + trainer expenses (click here for details). Note that these are the total course prices to which VAT applies.

Course content

See below (click to expand). Call us if you wish to discuss tailoring content to you.

COURSE CONTENT (Click to expand)

  • How to establish what support (if any) a person needs with their medicines
  • How to support someone who self-medicates
  • How to support someone who needs medicines administered to them
  • What medicines paperwork and support plans are needed when administering medicines
  • The importance of accurately completing a medicines chart if administering medication
  • How to record various scenarios on your design of medicines chart (tailored to your service)
  • How to check medicines received from the pharmacy (including blister packs)
  • What is ‘secondary dispensing’ and why should it be avoided?
  • Understanding pharmacy labels
  • Understanding expiry dates
  • How to set add, stop and alter medicines on your chart (medicines transcription)
  • Where to go for reliable information on medicines (side effects and dose timings)
  • How to administer medicines safely from blister packs
  • How to administer medicines from original packs
  • 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

Also available as

FOUNDATION COURSE IN MEDICINES ADMINISTRATION – SHARED LIVES – ONLINE