Medication Awareness
Ascend Learning Solutions
This Medication Awareness training provides an overview of how to manage residents’ medical needs; the legal responsibilities involved; how to deliver, store, and dispose of medication, and effectively manage doses.
Who should complete the course?
This course is for those working in health and social care who wish to gain knowledge in medication awareness, or as a useful annual refresher course.
Course Content
- Legislation / The Law and medicines
- Classification of medication
- Legal categories of medication
- Types of medicines
- Prescriptions / PRN
- Roles, responsibilities and boundaries
- Safe handling of medication
- Safe practice in administration of medicines
- The Five Rights of Administration
- Self-Administration
- Homely remedies
- Topical medicines
- Inhalers
- Anti-coagulant therapy
- Reactions to medicine
- Storage
- Unwanted medication
- Side effects of medication
- Record keeping