Medication Management for Social Care and Healthcare
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Delivery Method: Face-to-face Specific topics to be covered:
- Legal and Professional Issues
- Legislations and Laws in Medication and healthcare
- Patient mental capacity and understanding of drugs being given
- Infection Control in Medication Administration
- Handling, storing and disposing
- Prescribing, checking, obtaining and dispensing of medicines
- Medication as a drug
- Types of medicines
- Routes of Administration
- Steps in drug administration
- Anaphylaxis assessment and management
- Crushing tablets medicine
- Medication for older people
- The Rights in drug administration
- Controlled Drugs
- Medications errors and how to prevent them
- Documentation, confidentiality and record keeping
- Drug calculations
