Medication Awareness and Record Keeping Training for Care Workers

- Introduction
- Aims and Objectives

SECTION 1

- The Importance of Medication Awareness for a Care Worker.

- Legislation Governing Medication in the UK.

- Classification of Medication
- Understanding Doses

- Prescribing

- Routes of Administration

- Tablets, Capsules and Caplets

- Compound Drugs

- Administering Tablet/ Capsule Medication

- Liquid Oral Medications

- Prescription, Medication and Administration Checks

- Post Administration Checks

- End of Section Quiz


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SECTION 2

- Storage of Medication

- Storage of Controlled Drugs (CDs)

- Patient's Own Drugs

- Safe Disposal of Medicines

- Disposal of Controlled Drugs (CDs)

- Adverse Event Management

- Medication - Recording and Record-Keeping

- Keeping Records for Controlled Drugs (CDs)

- Key Points to Remember

- End of Course Summary

- End of Section Quiz

Please ensure you have read every page of the course (numbered at the bottom of the screen), otherwise you will not have the option of taking the test.

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Any copying in whole or in part of the text of this training programme is strictly prohibited. Moral rights of the author under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 are asserted.