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Foundation Practical Workshop: Shared Lives, Foster Carers and Personal Assistants

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Course Overview

This version of our Foundation Practical Workshop is specific for carers who provide medicines support to a person in their own home: shared lives carers, foster carers or personal assistants.

Duration

10am – 3pm

Handouts

All learners receive a copy of our “Support the Use of Medication in Social Care Settings (edition 3 – community version)” workbook, a 116-page full colour course manual plus an on-line assessment. It is suited to those working in the community (e.g. home care support workers, personal assistants etc).

Course Mapping

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

Accredited with

Skills for care

COURSE CONTENT (Click to expand)

  • 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 blister packs (monitored dosage systems) 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

Price

(excluding VAT)

£710 for max 16 learners