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Foundation Course in Medicines Administration | In-Person | Half-Day

Our half-day in-person Foundation course, suitable for all care settings:

  • Care homes
  • Community settings
  • Day services
  • Reablement
  • Supported living
  • Children’s services
  • Mixed settings.
In Person

3.5 hours

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  • £675 + VAT per workshop (max 16)
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Course overview

Course last audited November 2024

This half-day Foundation Course in Medicines Administration teaches how to safely prepare, select, administer and record tablets and capsules as a step-by-step process using a comprehensive competence checklist designed through years of research into why medication errors occur. The checklist ensures medicines are given in a safe and systematic way, reducing the risk of errors.

This course has been shown to reduce errors by 36% in a study by Hampshire County Council. Learning content on oral liquids, creams and ointments, inhalers, and eye drops is contained in the accompanying workbook, which covers the practical activities which take place in the afternoon of the full-day version of this course.

Tailor the workshop by selecting the type of medicines administration record (MAR) that you use, and if you use MDS blister packs.

Aimed at

Both new and experienced care support workers and nurses working in:

  • Care homes
  • Childrens’ services
  • Mixed settings

Course content

  1. Medication errors: why we need to work systematically
  2. An overview of how to give medicines systematically
  3. Simulated medicines round no. 1 (pre-learning competence assessment)
  4. Infection control, gloves, hand hygiene
  5. Prepare equipment and a drink
  6. Check medicines records: MAR, medicines care plans, PRN protocols, body maps etc.
  7. ‘Start with the chart’: checks needed on the MAR (video demonstration, practical activity)
  8. Breakdown of a pharmacy label
  9. Expiry and once opened dates
  10. The meds cross check – 7 rights ‘touch the words’
  11. Simulated medicines rounds 2 and 3 (competence assessment)
  12. Cautionary and advisory labels
  13. Dispense the medicine: ‘pop and dot’
  14. Count your doses vs MAR
  15. Administer in a person centred way
  16. Recording on an MAR

Online workbook module

All learners receive access to a comprehensive online module which teaches the theory taught on the course, including:

  • checking and administering from MDS blister packs
  • the videos used on the course
  • a suite of downloadable forms and other resources.

Accreditation

This course is double accredited, by both CPD Assessed and the Royal College of Nursing (when taken by nurses). RCN Accreditation applies only to the educational content and not to any product. RCN cannot confirm competence of any practitioner.

Mapping

  • The Care Certificate
  • CQC Quality Statements: Safe QS 1, 7 and 8
  • NICE – Management of Medicines in Care Homes, March 2014
  • NICE – Management of Medicines in Community Settings, March 2017
  • Health and Social Care Act (Regulated Activities) 2014.

Pricing

£675 + VAT per workshop (max 16) + trainer expenses (click here for details)

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