• Adult Social Care

    Administration of Medication

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    Course overview


    Eligibility: This course is open to anyone working in social care.

    This practical and interactive course is designed to equip practitioners with the knowledge and skills required for medicines administration. It covers the principles of safe drug administration for tablets, capsules, liquid medications, inhalers, and external applications. You will also learn to recognise some of the possible complications and risks associated with administering medication, as well as methods for avoiding, rectifying, and reporting them.

    Participants will be made and kept informed about the general medication audit trail, making sure that medicines are recorded both when received and when returned to a pharmacy.

    Learning outcomes

    As a result of this course, you will be able to:

    • Prepare the correct dose of medication for ingestion or application
    • Administer medication using non-invasive techniques, including tablets, capsules and liquid medications given by mouth, ear, eye and nasal drops; inhalers and external applications.
    • Take responsibility to make sure that medicines are only administered to the correct person, in the prescribed dose, at the right time, and by the right method/route.
    • Verify that medication use-by dates have not expired and that the medication has not already been administered by someone else.
    • Recognise and report possible side effects.
    • Report refusals and medication errors.
    • Administer medicines prescribed on an as-needed basis, such as painkillers.
    • Know what to do when people request non-prescribed medicines.
    • Adhere to service providers’ policy for record-keeping.

    Charges

    The charge for the course is £57.00, however you may be entitled to a reduced rate, or fully funded place depending on what organisation you work for.

    When you sign up you'll be able to book your place. We will contact you to arrange payment until we are ready to accept online payments. 

    Please refer to our terms and conditions for more information.

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