Course: Medication Awareness and Record Keeping Training for Care Workers

This course aims to provide you with some of the key knowledge and skills necessary to give you an awareness of medication. This involves understanding medication handling, medication legislation and classification, aspects of prescription, administration, storage, disposal of medicines and record keeping including an overview of E mar. This course includes STOMP Updated 2024

Course Contents:

• Section 1
  • Aims and Learning Objectives
  • Introduction
  • The Care Worker's Role in Medication Management
  • Legislation Governing Medication in the UK
  • STOMP
  • Classification of Medication
  • Body Systems or Effects of Drugs
  • Understanding Doses
  • Administering Medicine
  • Medication Labels
  • Dosages
  • Prescribing Medication
  • Medicines Act Exemption
  • Routes and Methods of Administration
  • Administering Medication
  • Medication Deliveries
  • Medication Administration Checks
• Section 2
  • Storage and Disposal of Medication
  • Storage and Disposal of Controlled Drugs (CDs)
  • Patient's Own Drugs (PODs)
  • Self-Medication
  • Dependence and Tolerance
  • Dosage Errors
  • Adverse Event Management
  • Recording and Record-Keeping
  • What is eMAR?
  • Keeping Records for Controlled Drugs (CDs)
  • Summary and Key Points