Medication Awareness: The Right Medicine, the Right Way
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Know what you can and can’t do with medicines in your role and apply the rights of safe administration every time.
- Assign to
- Care workers who support people with their medicines
- Duration
- 25 minutes
- Evidence
- 10-question quiz
- Your version
- Editable
What they will be able to do
- Know what you can and can’t do with medicines in your role.
- Apply the rights of safe administration every time.
- Record accurately on the MAR, straight after.
- Respond safely to refusals, errors and doubts.
The course
- 01Your role
- 02The rights
- 03Refusals and covert medicines
- 04When it goes wrong
The decision they practise
In “Mabel says no”, a face-to-face conversation, learners practise what to say and do when the other person pushes back. The wrong options are things a well-meaning person might genuinely say, and the feedback explains why each one is tempting. Short animations show “How one missed signature becomes a double dose”; and “Two carers, the same mistake”.
How you know they finished
The 10-question quiz mixes multiple choice, matching and sequencing questions and returns to the opening story.
Roll it out with
Relevant legislation and guidance
The course draws on these. Which ones apply depends on the organisation and the role. Finishing the course is a training record.
- Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014
- Care Act 2014
- Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
How this course is built
Interactive activity
Learners practise the decision in the course, including what to say when someone pushes back.
Edit it in the builder
On Growth and above, adapt the scenarios and wording to your own workplace, policies and reporting procedures.
A record they finished
The 10-question quiz closes the course, so you can show who completed it.
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