Introduction to The Safe Handling of Medicines

Who is this course for?

This online Introduction to Safe Handling of Medicines training course should be completed by those who work in community health and social care services, including:

• Domiciliary care workers
• Home caregivers
• Community healthcare assistants
• Support workers
• Care assistants

What Does this Course Cover?

This Introduction to the Safe Handling of Medicines course will start by explaining the key terminology used when handling medicines.

It then goes into detail about the roles of the people involved, some of the different groups of medicines, providing different levels of support to patients, infection control, label interpretation and much more

What You’ll Learn? 

• Introduction to the course
• Terminology explained
•  The roles of those involved, legislation and licensing
•  Groups of medicines
•  Levels of support and routes of entry
•  Infection Control and equipment for dispensing
•  Label interpretation, record keeping and The Seven Rights