Medicines Knowledge: Anti-coagulants and Other High Risk Medicines

The Care Quality Commission expect you to have a certain level of knowledge about the medicines you administer or support a person with. As well as knowing where to go for reliable information about medicines, you should also know about those medicines that carry a higher risk to the people you support.

This half-day face-to-face course will teach you about these higher-risk medicines: what problems to look out for, which medicines place a person at risk following an accident or fall, and what action to take.

Suitable for:

All experience levels, from support workers to registered nurses

Mapping:

CQC KLOE S4 (Proper and safe use of medicines)

Learning outcomes:

• Describe where to go for reliable medicines information
• Identify which medicines carry an increased risk of serious adverse events in individuals you support (so called “higher-risk medicines”)
• Describe changes to an individual that may indicate adverse events to medicines in this higher risk list and what action to take
• Describe those medicines that can place a person at risk following an accident or incident

We will study the following medicines:

• Anti-clotting agents: anti-coagulants and anti-platelets
• Cardiac (heart) drugs
• Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
• Anti-epileptic drugs
• Disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (including methotrexate)
• Anxiolytic and sedative medicines

Cost:

Face to face workshop: £600 per workshop (maximum 16 people) delivered at your own venue