The accredited course you need to support a pupil with diabetes and understand their medicines.
Advanced Distance Learning & Resource Pack for Schools: Competency Assessment, Auditing and Management of Medication Incidents
The accredited distance learning course for senior staff responsible for assessing competence, auditing medicines and managing medicines errors and incidents.
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- Course Information
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- Pricing
Course Information
Are you responsible for managing medicines in your school? Senior staff and school nurses should have a detailed understanding of how to competency assess their staff and how to manage medicines incidents in their school or college. Opus’ interactive distance learning workbook provides advice on competency assessment, auditing and management of medicines incidents in schools and provides you with the tools to implement safe processes in your school. The accredited distance learning course for senior staff responsible for assessing competence, auditing medicines and managing medicines errors and incidents. Course Content:
- Understanding your responsibilities
- Good practice
- Achieving the best outcomes for pupils
- Medication management and auditing including:
- Understanding processes
- PRN management
- Effective communication with parents and healthcare professionals
- Schools medicines challenges
- Conducting a medicines audit
- Checking medicines records
- Competency Assessment
- Coaching and mentoring
- Assessment of competence
- Incident Management
- Useful Resources
- Action Planning”
This course is:
- Accredited by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Developed and presented by qualified Pharmacist trainers
- Compliant with Ofsted requirements
- Evidenced by a certificate of successful completion
Pricing
Distance Learning Workbook and Resource Pack*:
£55 per workbook £50 per workbook for orders of 5 or more *Prices excluding postage. No VAT charged.FAQs
How long do the courses take?
Our Foundation e-learning courses take between 1.5 to 2 hours to complete. Competency Assessments and Refresher courses take approximately 1 hour and Bite-size courses take approximately 30 minutes.
Our distance learning workbooks can be completed in your own time and at your own pace.
Are Opus courses accredited?
This is what the RPS said about Opus:
“By being accredited as a Royal Pharmaceutical Society training provider, Opus Pharmacy Services has demonstrated that it meets our recognised quality standards and provides the benchmark for the healthcare teams it supports…”
Where do courses take place?
Distance Learning Workbooks are posted promptly to an address of your choosing. Larger order can be couriered to you or sent recorded delivery.
How many people can attend a Face to Face course?
Manager’s courses are undertaken in smaller groups of up to 10 delegates.
When do I get my certificate?
With distance learning, simply pop your completed assessment in the post or scan it in and email it to us for marking and your certificate will be emailed to you for you to print off and keep.
How long does my certificate last for?
Skills for Care guidance recommends that training be updated at least annually and Opus offers online competency assessments which can be used a year after your training for this purpose and refresher courses which can be completed when your certificate expires.