Accredited course providing Managers & Senior Staff with the skills and techniques to effectively assess the competence of their staff to administer medicines safely. Suitable for Managers and Senior Staff in adult services and children’s services.
Competency Assessment, Auditing and Managing Medication: An Advanced Distance Learning Workbook & Resource Pack
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
Are you responsible for competency assessing your staff and auditing medicines? It is important for senior staff to be able to evidence their competence to the regulator and to feel confident to assess others. This pack is aimed at senior staff and managers in a variety of care settings including care homes, homecare, reablement, extra care housing, supported living and day care. This interactive distance learning workbook provides advice on competency assessment, auditing and management of medicines incidents in your care setting and provides you with the tools to implement safe processes in your organisation. The accredited distance learning course for senior staff responsible for assessing competence, auditing medicines and managing medicines errors and incidents.
A great resource for Nurses to use as part of their revalidation.
Course Content:
- Understanding your responsibilities
- Good practice
- Achieving the best outcomes for people
- Medication management and auditing including:
- Understanding processes
- PRN management
- Effective communication with parents and healthcare professionals
- 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 CPD
- Developed by qualified Pharmacist trainers
- Compliant with CQC requirements
- Evidenced by a certificate of successful completion
Pricing
Distance Learning Workbook and Resource Pack*:
£60 per workbook £55 per workbook for orders of 5 or more *Prices excluding postage. No VAT charged.FAQs
How long do the courses take?
Most of our face to face courses are half day (3-hour) sessions with a qualified Pharmacist trainer at your venue. Some supplementary courses, such as buccal midazolam & epilepsy or Epipen & adrenaline auto-injector administration, are 2-hour sessions.
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?
Yes! All of our courses and services are accredited by CPD, and we are a Skills for Care Endorsed Training Provider.
Where do courses take place?
E-learning courses are completed online and can be used on any internet-enabled device, including Macs, PCs and iPads.
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?
Our face to face courses are for small groups of up to 16 learners.
Manager’s courses are undertaken in smaller groups of up to 10 delegates.
When do I get my certificate?
For our face to face courses, the trainer will mark your assessments and all successful delegates will receive their certificate via email following the training, usually within 7 days.
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?
For most courses, certificates have a recommended refresher of 2 years.
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.