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Short Courses:

• 3 Day Intensive Mental Health Awareness
• Physical Intervention Programme
• Moving & Handling
• Basic Food Hygiene
• Basic Health & Safety
• Infection Control
• Safe Handling of Medication
• Basic First Aid and CPR
• Diabetes and TPR/BP
• Parkinsons Disease
• Epilepsy

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Short Courses

Safe Handling of Medication

During this half day course, students will be instructed on: 

• Uses of and Administration of medication
• Standards and Guidelines and Legal requirements
• Healthcare assistants practice role/s and functions in the context of contemporary health care
• Reporting systems in place to monitor practice
• Routes of administration
• Self-administration of medication
• Use of Controlled drugs
• Disposal of medicines
• Common side-effects of medicines
• Common Medication errors
• The importance and necessity of Service user confidentiality

Course Aims:

By the end of the course students will be able to: 

• Promote patient safety
• Prepare healthcare assistants with grounding in theory and practice and with the level of competence required to provide safe and effective practice.
• Facilitate the practice of administrating medicines which allows healthcare assistants to develop and expand their role in order to meet patient needs
• Enable the administration of medicines to follow evidence based practice

 

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