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Safe use and administration of medication

The one day medication training will cover the following:

An introduction to medicines

• Accountability
• Legal responsibilities

Ordering of medicines

• Prescriptions
• Supply
• Verbal orders

Storage of medicines

Administration of medicines

• General considerations
• MAR sheets
• Guidelines for administration
• Oral medicines
• Capsules
• Tablets
• Liquids
• Intra-nasal medicines
• Intra-ocular medicines
• Intra-aural medicines
• Inhaled medicines
• Vaginal and rectal medicines
• Topical medicines
• Transdermal medicines
• Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy

Self administration of medicines

• Labelling
• Service user education
• Medicine compliance devices

Homely Remedies

Refusal of medicines

Controlled drugs

• Storage of controlled drugs
• Temazepam
• Oramorph
• Controlled drug register
• Administration of controlled drugs
• Disposal of controlled drugs

Common side effects from medicines in older service users

• Hypnotics and sedatives
• Neuroleptics
• Antidepressants
• Digoxin
• Diuretics
• Anti-inflammatory medicines
• Anti-hypertensive’s
• Analgesics

Errors associated with the administration of medicine

Disposal of medicines

• Safe disposal

This course will finish with a multiple choice test ensuring that candidates have understood the information and will be given a certificate attesting to their knowledge as outlined above.