Our administration of medicines course will be tailored to your environment, be it a home care setting, a prison or any other environment and can include administration of controlled drugs if your require this.
- Course length - between ½-day and 1-day, depending on your needs
- your role in medication administration
- legal and professional responsibilities
- the difference between assisting and asministering
- the principles of safe administration
- different routes of administration
- common abbreviations
- the importance of safe administration of controlled drugs
- awareness of the principles of minimising medication errors
- how to manage, record and report medication errors
- documentation and consent