Medication Administration training is an excellent refresher course for healthcare professionals with the responsibility of receiving, storing, administering and disposing of medication.
Objectives
- Understand your professional duties and legal obligations
- Recognize the importance of reporting any lapses in care
- Acknowledge your competence limits
- Learn to provide effective verbal and non-verbal support
- Overcome communication barriers for better interaction
- Identify factors affecting individual comfort and dignity
- Obtain valid consent and offer necessary support
- Understand the basics of Pharmacokinetics
- Learn to interpret prescriptions and charts
- Master the non-touch technique for medication preparation
- Know how to verify medication intake
- Understand safe medication disposal
- Keep accurate and updated records
- Apply standard infection control measures
- Understand buccal administration and self-administration
- Understand medication dosage calculation
- Identify and prevent common prescribing errors
- Learn effective ways to escalate concerns
Course content
- Legislation
- The 8 rights of medication administration
- Classification and types of medication
- Routes into the body
- Maintaining records
- Prescribing medication
- Types and reasons for errors
- Storing and disposing of medication
- Buccal administration
- Self-administration and supporting independence
- Contra indications, allergies and overdoses
- Monitoring dosage systems
- Medication calculations
