Medication Awareness Training for Care

This Medication Awareness Training course is specifically targeted at care workers who look after residents in a care home. It provides an overview of how to manage residents’ medical needs; the legal responsibilities involved; and how to deliver, store, and dispose of medication and effectively manage doses.

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Learning outcomes

Understand the risks associated with incorrect medication administration
Learn about the relevant legislation and care home policies as well as patient's care plans
Learn how to read pharmacist's labels, how to deliver, store and dispose of medication

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Covered in this course

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 3 sections

1 Policies and The Law
2 Medication
3 Administering Medication

SECTION 1

The first section begins by laying the foundations of administering medication by looking at what the law says, what a care home’s medication policy should contain, and what needs to be in a patient’s care plan. It also discusses the philosophy of “Person-Centred Care”.

SECTION 2

This section looks at medication itself; the different categories of medication, the different kinds of dosages, how to read a pharmacist’s label, and how to safely deliver, store and dispose of medication.

SECTION 3

This final section is all about processes. It covers the legal and best-practice processes that need to be considered when giving medication to residents in a care home. This includes how to look after residents who self-medicate; what to do if you need to covertly administer medication; and how to manage emergency medication.

About this course

This online Medication Awareness Training for Care provides essential training to care assistants and general care staff working in both nursing and non-nursing care homes. Participants will learn how to administer and manage medication that aligns with legal requirements to perform the administration safely.

It’s the responsibility of Care Home Managers to ensure that their staff are suitably trained – what’s considered “suitable training” is at their discretion. This Administering Medication in Care Homes training course acts as a refresher - or a reminder of the essentials - to be used alongside practical training.

Course participants will understand the needs of an individual before the administration of medication through the online course and will learn the importance of Medicines Administration Record [MAR] sheets. Alongside this, recognising the side effects should a patient have a reaction to some of the medication provided.

By following the guidelines set by The Department of Health, we ensure participants are given the best training possible.

Understanding the needs of patients, safe handling of medications, preparation and recording are all key parts of this Medication Awareness Training for Care.

Presented by

Michelle Livings

The importance of Medication Awareness Training for Care

It’s important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.

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Medication Awareness Training certificate

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Each of our courses ends with a multiple choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.

Medication Awareness Training for Care course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.

As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.

What does my certificate include?

Your Medication Awareness Training for Care Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.

Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.

Medication Awareness in Care Certificate

27 real user reviews

4.7 out of 5