Medications management

Audience

Anyone who has a responsibility for medicines management in the workplace.

Course outline

A succinct course to train the holder in the management of medicines in the workplace. It looks at a wide range of medications, administration routes, storage, and guidelines. The holder will learn to be confident in the administration and other areas of medicine management.

Training topics will include

• Administration
• Types of medications
• Storage
• Guidance.
• Emergency medication

Learning outcomes

• To be knowledgeable in the understanding of different medicines
• To be able to work within UK law
• To be able to administer medication safely.

Trainer

Jane Graham
Trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, Jane has 31 years of nursing background; 17 of which is in trauma and intensive care. Whilst in PICU, she had a number of different roles. Nine years of that included a role as a specialist retrieval nurse (CATS) that entailed travelling around the country to stabilize and bring back critically unstable children. To do this she learned advanced nursing and basic medical skills in resuscitation, all medical conditions, and trauma.

She went on to teach these skills to student nurses, qualified nurses and junior doctors as the Practice educator on intensive care. This role also involved lecturing regularly at South Bank University. She has been a DSL for Safeguarding at an independent boarding school where she was Lead Nurse. She is also an instructor for Qualsafe, an awarding body approved by the HSE.

Cost

• Member rate: £100
• Non-member rate: £200*

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