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”