Medication Awareness in Care Settings

About this course

A plain-English introduction to how medicines are supported safely in UK care settings: the law, care planning, storage, giving and recording, and what to do when something goes wrong.

What you'll learn

• By the end of this module, you will be able to describe the legal types of medicine, explain who may prescribe and give them, outline what the law and the regulator expect of your employer, and say where your own limits lie.
• By the end of this module, you will be able to explain how a person's medicines support needs are assessed and recorded, and how choice, consent, capacity, self-administration and covert administration are handled.
• By the end of this module, you will be able to describe how medicines are ordered, received, stored, transported and disposed of safely, and what to record and report along the way.
• By the end of this module, you will be able to describe the checks made before each dose, how different forms of medicine are supported, how 'when required', time-sensitive and over-the-counter medicines are handled, and how to complete the medication record.
• By the end of this module, you will be able to explain what to do when a medicines error or concern arises, how to report side effects and safeguarding worries, and how to work with the person, their family and health professionals around medicines.

Curriculum

Assessment & certificate