Safe use and administration of medication

Safe use and administration of medication

The one day medication training will cover the following:

An introduction to medicines

* Accountability
* Legal responsibilities

Ordering of medicines

* Prescriptions
* Supply
* Verbal orders

Storage of medicines

Administration of medicines

* General considerations
* MAR sheets
* Guidelines for administration
* Oral medicines
* Capsules
* Tablets
* Liquids
* Intra-nasal medicines
* Intra-ocular medicines
* Intra-aural medicines
* Inhaled medicines
* Vaginal and rectal medicines
* Topical medicines
* Transdermal medicines
* Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy

Self administration of medicines

* Labelling
* Service user education
* Medicine compliance devices

Homely Remedies

Refusal of medicines

Controlled drugs

* Storage of controlled drugs
* Temazepam
* Oramorph
* Controlled drug register
* Administration of controlled drugs
* Disposal of controlled drugs

Common side effects from medicines in older service users

* Hypnotics and sedatives
* Neuroleptics
* Antidepressants
* Digoxin
* Diuretics
* Anti-inflammatory medicines
* Anti-hypertensive's
* Analgesics

Errors associated with the administration of medicine

Disposal of medicines

* Safe disposal

This course will finish with a multiple choice test ensuring that candidates have understood the information and will be given a certificate attesting to their knowledge as outlined above.
Safe use and administration of medication