The accredited course you need to support a person with dementia with their medicines.
Full Day Medicines Awareness (Foundation) Course for Schools
The accredited Full Day Medicines Awareness (Foundation) Course covering all aspects of handling medicines within a school.
About This Course
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Course Information
Our accredited Full Day Medicines Awareness (Foundation) Course covers all aspects of handling medicines within a school. It provides delegates with the knowledge required to handle medicines safely in line with their organisation’s medicines policy and procedures. It also includes a range of practical activities to increase delegates confidence and competence when handling medicines.
By the end of this course, delegates will be able to:
- Describe the safe procedures for handling medicines
- Demonstrate how to administer medicines safely and effectively
- Describe the practical challenges of administration
- Explain how to use and maintain medicine records
- Recognise potential problems of medicines in use and how to avoid/overcome them
Course Content
This course includes the following:
- Storage
- Administration
- Recording
- Disposal
- Covert administration
- Self-administration
- Non-prescribed medicines
- The importance of dose timings
- How to use eye drops, patches, inhalers, creams etc.
- Understanding dosage instructions
- Basic hygiene when administering medicines
- Principles of a medicines policy
- Specialist tasks
- How to reduce medicines errors
- Reporting refusals, side effects and errors
- Expiry dates
- Legal issues
- In-depth look at dosage forms with extra case studies for tablets, inhalers and transdermal patches
- MAR recording exercises, covering PRN
- Spotting error exercises
- Additional time for discussion and reflection
- Focus on the application of learning
This course is:
- Accredited by CPD
- Developed and presented by qualified Pharmacist trainers
- Compliant with Ofsted requirements
- Evidenced by a certificate of successful completion
Pricing
Virtual Learning Course
£1050 + VAT for up to 16 delegates.
Course presented by a qualified Pharmacist trainer via Zoom.
Face to Face Course
£1190 + VAT for up to 16 delegates
Presented by a qualified Pharmacist trainer at your venue.
Travel costs may apply.
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 10 learners or we can provide training for larger groups of up to 16- whichever works for you!
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.