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Medication Management in Health and Social Care

With this Medication Management course, understand relevant legislation, policies and procedures to the administration of medication, common types of medication and their use, and how to administer and monitor medication safely within a health and social care setting.

Course Overview

Format

Introductory Course
30 Study Minutes
Online Study
Self-Printed Certificate

Accreditation

1 CPD Hour
CPD Certified

Course description

Working in a health and social care setting often involves administering and monitoring medication to those under your care. With this short course understand the legislation policies and procedures to be able to safely administer medication whilst also gaining knowledge surrounding the most common types of medication and its use.

This 30-minute course can be used as an introduction or as refresher training to ensure that all learners have up to date knowledge of Medication Management.

Learning Outcomes for this course include:

Understand legislation, policy and procedures relevant to the administration of medication
Know about common types of medication and their use
Understand procedures and techniques for the administration of medication
Be able to prepare for administration of medication
Be able to administer and monitor medication safely

Accreditation

The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

Certification

At the beginning of each module learners will be asked to answer a “knowledge check” question. Answering the question correctly will allow learners the opportunity to skip this section. However, if they wish to complete it anyway, they are still able to.

On completion of this course, learners will be able to print a Virtual College certificate. Learners must complete the course to obtain their certificate.

Duration

30 study minutes to complete. The length of time taken depends entirely on how quickly learners can study and absorb the material.

Target Audience

This training is designed for anyone working in a role that administers medication to others such as care assistants, pharmacists, nurses, care workers and support workers wanting to get a good understanding of what is required of them within their role as well as for anyone working in a Health and Social Care setting wanting annual refresher training.

Entry Requirements

There are no specific entry requirements for this course.

Framework

Our Medication Management in Health and Social Care online training course is mapped to the Skills for Care Core and Mandatory Training Framework.

Here we explain the framework and its importance.

Skills for Care Core and Mandatory Training Framework:

The Core and Mandatory Training framework was produced by skills for care in partnership with a panel of social care employers, learning providers and representative organisations and was updated in line with CQC’s revised inspection framework.

It sets out a series of minimum learning objectives and a suggested refresher frequency, to support care organisations to provide their staff with a foundation of learning and refresher opportunities.

You will learn

Understand legislation, policy, and procedures relevant to the administration medication

Know about common types of medication and their use

Understand procedures and techniques for the administration of medication

Be able to prepare for administration of medication

Be able to administer and monitor medication safely

Who is it for?

Roles including:

This course is aimed at anyone working in a role that administers medication to others

Care workers in residential/domiciliary settings, or support workers, wanting to get a good understanding of what is required of them within their role

For anyone working in a Health and Social Care setting wanting annual refresher training

Pharmacists

Nurses

Doctors

Care Assistants

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This online course consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk learners through the lesson material. Pages may include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help learners stay engaged and interested in the material. Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be paused and resumed at any stage.
The course is self-paced so learners decide how fast or slow the training goes. There is no deadline for completion but some of our courses have a test at the end to check that learners have understood the material. If the course has a test at the end then learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark to successfully complete the course. Once learners have passed the test they are awarded a certificate, which can either be downloaded digitally or sent as a physical copy if this option was chosen when purchasing the course.
Your Certificate

Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College which will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable, the learner's name, the title of the course and the date of completion.
If you have purchased the posted certificate option, available on selected courses, a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out the following working week after completion.