Course description
Medication Awareness & Record Keeping For Care Workers Online Course
Benefits
- Improve your career prospects.
- Learn valuable knowledge, skills, advice and guidance to help you achieve success.
- Study online from anywhere.
- Study at your own pace.
- Download and print your industry recognised certificate on successful completion.
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
Who can take the course?
Anyone who has an interest in learning more about this subject matter is encouraged to take the course. There are no entry requirents.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Learning Outcomes
Medication Awareness and Record Keeping For Care Workers - SECTION 1
- Introduction
- Aims and Objectives
- The Importance of Medication Awareness for a Care Worker.
- Legislation Governing Medication in the UK.
- Classification of Medication
- Understanding Doses
- Prescribing
- Routes of Administration
- Tablets, Capsules and Caplets
- Compound Drugs
- Administering Tablet/ Capsule Medication
- Liquid Oral Medications
- Prescription, Medication and Administration Checks
- Post Administration Checks
- End of Section Quiz
Medication Awareness and Record Keeping For Care Workers - SECTION 2
- Storage of Medication
- Storage of Controlled Drugs (CDs)
- Patient's Own Drugs
- Safe Disposal of Medicines
- Disposal of Controlled Drugs (CDs)
- Adverse Event Management
- Medication - Recording and Record Keeping
- Keeping Records for Controlled Drugs (CDs)
- Key Points to Remember
- End of Course Summary
- End of Section Quiz
Course delivery details
We estimate that the entire program is likely to take around 2-4 hours to work through initially, but you may want to allow more time to repeat some areas. You should allow an additional 30 minutes for the end of course test.
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