Medication awareness and safe handling of medicines
Topics Include: Requesting prescriptions, Maintaining records and Effective storage
According to the NHS, more than 1.08 billion prescription items were dispensed overall in 2015, a 1.8 per cent increase on the previous year.
Effectively managing and safely handling this medication is crucial to the health and wellbeing of those who rely on it on a daily basis.
This course will give you a good insight into the procedures that should be followed when taking charge of someone’s medication outside of a health setting. It covers requesting prescriptions, maintaining records and effective storage.
- Safely request and handle medicines, and administer medicines to individuals outside of a care setting (with the knowledge in this course and if properly trained to do so)
- Keep good records, knowing what to document and when, and the importance of reporting errors
- Store and dispose of medicines appropriately
- Medication Awareness
- Safe Handling of Medicines
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