Premium Medication Training Course – Live

Staff supporting residents with their medicines must be appropriately trained and competent to carry out this important task.

There are numerous medication training courses available, and a number of these concentrate on how medications work in the body, the laws relating to medication, types of medication and so on. Isn’t administering medication an instrumental part of the job? If it is, shouldn’t training courses concentrate on ensuring staff are confident in doing just this?

For this reason, this medication training course concentrates on how to safely administer medication and how we should be evidencing this.

Course Overview:

1. Medication Policy
2. Medicines Reconciliation
3. Safe and Effective Storage of Medication

• Security
• Temperature
• Humidity
• Expiry dates
• Visual check

4. Medication Competency Assessments
   • Introduction
   • Pre-round Preparation & Hygiene
   • Structuring the Med Round

• Time Sensitive Medication
  • The Potting Process
    • PRN & Variable Doses
    • Covert
    • Swallowing Difficulties & Thickeners
    • Cytotoxic Medications
    • Warfarin
  • Administration
    • Oral Medicines
    • Inhalers
    • Eye Drops
    • Ear Drops
    • Nasal Drops/Sprays
    • Buccal
    • Sublingual
    • Topical skin applications and their flammability risk
    • Patches

5. Documenting the administration
   • Medication Administration Records
   • Supplementary MARs/Additional information requirements
   • Refusals
6. Self-administration
7. Controlled drugs
8. Side effects v Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs)
9. Homely Remedies
10. Disposal of Waste Medication
11. Medication administration away from the care setting
12. Ordering
13. Booking in received medication
14. Monthly medication changeover
15. Medication audits & stock checks
16. Incidents & near misses