The accredited distance learning course for senior staff responsible for assessing competence, auditing medicines and managing medicines errors and incidents.
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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.
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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.
Yes! All of our courses and services are accredited by CPD, and we are a Skills for Care Endorsed Training Provider.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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