Making errors with medication is inevitable but reducing the likelihood of them happening is achievable. This course will help to reduce this as it will teach you the variety of outcomes surrounding understanding medicines. It’s crucial for all health and social care workers to know and understand each of the learning outcomes listed below, because it will help them to ensure the correct support is being given to the individual with their medication. It will also allow the individual to feel safe, comfortable and trusting knowing their supporter has been given good training.
Learning Outcomes:
- Medication Training- Learn what appropriate medication training must be completed and understand what you cannot do until it is completed.
- Types of Medication- Understand the different types of medication because this will benefit you in your job role as it will help you to identify what the drug is used for. it’s important for you to know what you are going to administer.
- Prescriptions- In this section you will understand the different types of prescriptions and what to look out for on them that makes them valid, as your role may involve you coming across prescriptions.
- Routes of Administration- In this section you will understand the routes of administration and where to look for this, as administering medication by the incorrect route can cause serious harm to the individual.
- Side Effects- As a health and social care worker it’s important to be aware of any possible side effects from an individual taking medication, in this section you will learn where you can find them listed.
- Herbal Remedies- Some people take herbal remedies as well as or instead of conventional medicines; this section will teach what to do if someone is taking herbal remedies.
- Levels of Support- In this section you will learn what the different types of support levels there are, this is an important part of your role to understand and remember as you will refer back to it when administering, assisting or prompting medication.
- Recording- Learn about how to record important information and why this is a crucial part all health and social care workers must do.
- Unwanted Medications- Every year there are loads of unwanted medication, you will learn what to do with unwanted medication, to ensure the safety of others.
- Medication Storage- In this section you will learn about the different types of areas to store medication and areas where you shouldn’t keep medication, this will also include how to store medication if access is restricted to certain people only.
- The 7 Rights- Learn the 7 Rights which are a checklist to go through before administering medication.
- Legislations- This section will provide you with the list of legislations evolving around medication and will teach you why their important.
