This course will teach you how to handle and store medicines safely. In health and social care learning about the safe handling and storage of medicines is essential to ensure the safety of individuals. Mistakes with medication can make the medication ineffective, cause dangerous or unpleasant side effects, or even result in the death of patients. Having effective medication management including the correct storage in healthcare settings will reduce illness and death rates providing a safer and more reliable service.
Learning Outcomes:
- Storage of Medicines- In this section you will learn about the different types of storage areas for medication in different settings and why it is important to comply with these
- Risk Assessments- Learn how risk assessments help to give clear guidelines to health and social care workers and why some of the things they include are important.
- Self- Administered Medicines- Understand supporting someone who self-administers and where their medication should be stored.
- PRN- Learn about PRN and where these types of medication need to be stored which is safe and secure.
- Rescue Medicines- In this section you will understand what rescue medicines are as well as where and why these need to be stored somewhere different to other medications.
- Storage of Medicines for Disposal- It’s important to know what to do with medications that are to be disposed of and how control access will maintain safety for everyone.
