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 online 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 online interactive 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 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”