The accredited course you need to administer buccal midazolam safely, following a competency assessment.
Full Day Safe Handling of Medicines (Foundation) Course for Adult Services
The accredited Full Day Safe Handling of Medicines (Foundation) Course covering all aspects of handling medicines within a care setting. Skills for Care recommend that staff renew their training annually.
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Course Information
Our accredited Full Day Safe Handling of Medicines (Foundation) Course covers all aspects of handling medicines within a care setting. 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:
- Administration
- Storage
- Recording
- Disposal
- Covert administration
- Self-administration
- Homely remedies and over the counter medication
- 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
- 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 CQC requirements
- Evidenced by a certificate of successful completion