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Safe Handling of Medicines Foundation

Course Information

This course is designed to help learners describe the safe procedures for handling medicines, demonstrate how to administer medicines safely and effectively, explain how to use and maintain medicine records, recognise potential problems of medicines in use and how to avoid/overcome them.

By the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

  • Describe the safe procedures for handling medicines
  • Demonstrate how to administer medicines safely and effectively
  • Explain how to use and maintain medicine records
  • Recognise potential problems of medicines in use and how to avoid/overcome them

    • Course Content:

  • Administration
  • Storage
  • Recording
  • Disposal
  • Covert administration
  • Self-administration
  • Homely remedies and over the counter medication
  • The importance of dose timings
  • How to use eye drops, patches, inhalers, creams etc.
  • Understanding dosage instructions
  • Basic hygiene when administering medicines
  • Principles of a medicines policy
  • Specialist tasks
  • How to reduce medicines errors
  • Reporting refusals, side effects and errors
  • Expiry dates

    • Delivery Method: Face-to-Face / Virtual Classroom

    Max delegates: 16

    Duration: ½ day

    For more information about this course please contact us.

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