Medication Awareness

Medication Awareness

This course is suitable Residential or Domiciliary care workers requiring level 1 or level 2 Medicine Awareness training, as outlined in the CSCI guidance to inspectors. It will also benefit Care Workers undertaking training in the Skills for Care Knowledge set on Medication or care workers undertaking NVQ Unit HSC375.

Medication Awareness Course Content:

• Key CSCI definitions on medicine awareness
• Care values
• Legislation, Policy and procedures
• Classification of medicines
• Types of medicines
• Maintaining medication records
• Collection, storage, disposal medicines
• Safe handling of medicines
• Supporting self-administration
• Administration of medicines
• Reporting mistakes, recognising and reporting changes

This course provides the underpinning knowledge required for Residential and Domiciliary care workers to:

(1) Support service users who are self-medicating

(2) Administer medication within their care setting (referred too as level 1 and level 2 training in the CSCI Guidance to Inspectors)