Safe Handling and Administration of Medication

What you will cover

• Responsibilities, legislation and guidance
• Types of medication
• Routes of administration
• Time critical medicines, spacing doses and non-daily doses
• Preparing to administer - 6 'R's of administration, secondary dispensing, checks before administering, physiological measurements
• Records - recording the administration, MAR records, transferring and transcribing information
• Monitoring the effects of medication - side effects and allergic reactions
• Medication reviews
• Tolerance & dependence
• Medication errors - errors of commission and omission, recording of errors, examples of errors, causes of errors
• Chain of events - prescribing, dispensing, administration, monitoring, compliance .Ordering, receiving, storing and disposal of medicines
• Common groups of medication and what they are used for - generic and brand names
• Homely remedies, covert medication, Aids for self-medication, crushing medication
• The difference between supporting with and administering medication