Administration of Medication (Care Futures Staff Only)
Venue
Acorn Health & Safety Ltd, Tower Lane Business Park, Tower Lane, Warmley
Event Tutors
Learning and Development
Admin Contact
Learning and Development (HRlearninganddevelopment@southglos.gov.uk)
Target Audience
CAH Staff / External Care Providers / Social Care Staff
Event Types
Course (daytime)
Course categories
Adult Social Care / Health and Safety
Adult Social Care subcategories
General Adult Social Care / Older People
Health and Safety subcategories
General Health, Safety and Wellbeing
Event description
Acorn Health & Safety have recently revised their guidance regarding the wearing of face masks. From 1st August 2020, it will be mandatory to wear face masks during practical elements of the course however delegates may choose to wear the mask throughout the course.
This applies to our First Aid and Manual Handling courses, where 2m social distancing cannot be maintained.
If you are attending any of our courses, please can you ensure you bring your own 3 ply face mask. Fabric masks and face coverings are not acceptable for practical elements.
This half day course follows CQC requirements on the administration of medication. It includes trainer presentation, discussion, and a short multiple-choice assessment at the end to check the information has been retained by participants. Relevant handouts/paperwork will be provided. This course is aimed at any adult social care staff in South Gloucestershire, working in domiciliary, residential and day care services (statutory sector AND IVP sector agencies).
This applies to our First Aid and Manual Handling courses, where 2m social distancing cannot be maintained.
If you are attending any of our courses, please can you ensure you bring your own 3 ply face mask. Fabric masks and face coverings are not acceptable for practical elements.
This half day course follows CQC requirements on the administration of medication. It includes trainer presentation, discussion, and a short multiple-choice assessment at the end to check the information has been retained by participants. Relevant handouts/paperwork will be provided. This course is aimed at any adult social care staff in South Gloucestershire, working in domiciliary, residential and day care services (statutory sector AND IVP sector agencies).
Learning outcomes
How to prepare the correct dose of medication for ingestion or application. How to administer medication that is not given by invasive techniques, including tablets, capsules and liquid medications given by mouth, ear, eye and nasal drops; inhalers and external applications. About their responsibility as a care worker to ensure that medicines are only administered to the correct person they were prescribed for, given in the right (prescribed) dose, at the right time by the right method/route. How important it is to check the medication àuse byà date has not expired, and that the person has not already been given the medication by anyone else. How to recognise and report possible side effects. How to report refusals and medication errors. How they as a care worker should administer medicines prescribed àas requiredà, for example painkillers. What they as a care worker should do when people request non-prescribed medicines. About the service provideràs policy for record-keeping. Participants will be made / kept aware of the general medication àaudit trailà, with medicines being recorded when received as well as when returned (to a pharmacy).
Start Date
Monday 21 September 2020
End Date
Monday 21 September 2020
Closing Date
Sunday 20 September 2020
Times
13:30 - 16:30
Maximum Places
6
Cost
£40.00
Number of Sessions
1
Certificate expiry
No
Pass/Fail event
No