Course Information

Are you responsible for managing medicines in your children’s service? Senior staff should have a detailed understanding of how to competency assess their staff and how to manage medicines incidents in their organisation. Opus’ 3-hour interactive workshop aims to help children’s services exceed the standard for medicines management by providing detailed knowledge of the processes involved with auditing medicines, assessing competency of staff and reducing medicines errors.

Course Content:

• Meeting the standards for medicines
• Identifying good practice
• Understanding procedures
• Hazards and risks with medicines
• Importance of records
• Importance of audit
• Incident management
• Assessing competence of staff
• Action planning

The accredited face to face course for senior staff responsible for assessing competence, auditing medicines and managing medicines errors and incidents.