Working in a health and social care setting often involves administering and monitoring medication to those under your care. With this short course understand the legislation policies and procedures to be able to safely administer medication whilst also gaining knowledge surrounding the most common types of medication and its use.
Medication Management in Health and Social Care
£20.00
Description
Introduction: This 30-minute course can be used as an introduction or as refresher training to ensure that all learners have up to date knowledge of Medication Management.
Learning Outcomes for this course include:
- Understand legislation, policy and procedures relevant to the administration of medication
- Know about common types of medication and their use
- Understand procedures and techniques for the administration of medication
- Be able to prepare for administration of medication
- Be able to administer and monitor medication safely
Accreditation: The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.
Certification: At the beginning of each module learners will be asked to answer a “knowledge check” question. Answering the question correctly will allow learners the opportunity to skip this section. However, if they wish to complete it anyway, they are still able to. On completion of this course, learners will be able to print a Virtual College certificate. Learners must complete the course to obtain their certificate.
Duration: 30 study minutes to complete. The length of time taken depends entirely on how quickly learners can study and absorb the material.
Target Audience: This training is designed for anyone working in a role that administers medication to others such as care assistants, pharmacists, nurses, care workers and support workers wanting to get a good understanding of what is required of them within their role as well as for anyone working in a Health and Social Care setting wanting annual refresher training.
Entry Requirements: There are no specific entry requirements for this course. Framework Our Medication Management in Health and Social Care online training course is mapped to the Skills for Care Core and Mandatory Training
Framework – Here we explain the framework and its importance.
Skills for Care Core and Mandatory Training Framework: The Core and Mandatory Training framework was produced by skills for care in partnership with a panel of social care employers, learning providers and representative organisations and was updated in line with CQC’s revised inspection framework. It sets out a series of minimum learning objectives and a suggested refresher frequency, to support care organisations to provide their staff with a foundation of learning and refresher opportunities.
