Medicines Assessors Virtual Workshop

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) requires care providers to have a formal system in place to assess staff competence to administer medication. In this workshop we give you the skills, knowledge and tools needed to assess competence to administer medicines against a structured competence assessment checklist. You will be assessed through a combination of video assessments, skills, and theory assessments.

Aimed at

Care staff and nurses who assess staff competence to administer medication

Accreditation

Skills for Care

Learning outcomes

• Describe legal/best practice requirements for assessing staff competence
• Tailor the direct observation checklist to your own organisation
• Demonstrate competence at selecting and administer medicines systematically using a 7-point cross check
• Demonstrate you are competent to assess others administering the common dosage forms
• NICE – Management of Medicines in Care Homes, March 2014
• NICE – Management of Medicines in Community Settings, March 2017
• Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014: Regulation 12

Course mapping

Format:

• Registration onto our Online Foundation Plus Course in Medicines Administration (this course is accredited by Skills for Care and the Royal College of Nursing)
• Registration onto our Virtual Medicines Round Competence Assessment
• Two 2-hour virtual workshop video assessments with one of our most experienced trainers
• Post course assessment

Dates and times

• Online training to be completed before the first virtual workshop

• Virtual workshops: Wednesday 11th November 10am -12pm and Wednesday 18th November 2pm - 4pm

Cost

£250 per person + VAT