Medicines Assessor Training

Course Overview

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) requires care providers to have a formal system to assess staff competence to administer medication. In this workshop we will assess your competence to administer medicines against a structured competence assessment checklist.

We will then assess you as competent to assess others (against this same checklist). You will be assessed through a combination of 1:1 direct observation with actual medicines, simulated medicines rounds, video assessments and a theory assessment.

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Duration

2 days

Aimed at

Care staff and nurses who assess staff competence to administer medication

Learning outcomes

• Describe legal/best practice requirements for assessing staff competence
• Tailor the direct observation checklist to your own organisation
• Demonstrate competence at selecting, administering and recording medicines systematically
• Demonstrate you are competent to administer, and assess others administering:
• Solid oral medicines (tablets, capsules etc.)
• Oral liquids
• Topical medicines (creams, ointments etc.)
• Inhalers
• Eye drops

Course mapping

Price

(up to 12 people)

£1500 + VAT