The care homes use of medicines (CHUMS) study observed that errors occur on 8.4% of medication administration events.

  • Health & Safety
  • 40 languages
  • 30m

Learning outcomes

  • Understand the risks associated with incorrect medication administration
  • Learn about the relevant legislation and care home policies as well as patient's care plans
  • Learn how to read pharmacist's labels, how to deliver, store and dispose of medication

Covered in this course

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 3 sections

  1. 1
    Policies and The Law
  2. 2
    Medication
  3. 3
    Administering Medication

About this course

This online Medication Awareness Training for Care provides essential training to care assistants and general care staff working in both nursing and non-nursing care homes. Participants will learn how to administer and manage medication that aligns with legal requirements to perform the administration safely.

It’s the responsibility of Care Home Managers to ensure that their staff are suitably trained – what’s considered “suitable training” is at their discretion. This Administering Medication in Care Homes training course acts as a refresher – or a reminder of the essentials – to be used alongside practical training.

Course participants will understand the needs of an individual before the administration of medication through the online course and will learn the importance of Medicines Administration Record [MAR] sheets. Alongside this, recognising the side effects should a patient have a reaction to some of the medication provided.

By following the guidelines set by The Department of Health, we ensure participants are given the best training possible.

Understanding the needs of patients, safe handling of medications, preparation and recording are all key parts of this Medication Awareness Training for Care.

The importance of Medication Awareness Training for Care

It's important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.

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Available in 40 languages

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Italian
German
Romanian
French
Polish
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Medication Awareness Training certificate

Download and print

Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.

Medication Awareness Training for Care course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.

As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.

What does my certificate include?

Your Medication Awareness in Care Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.

Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.

319 real user reviews

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It is very educative

The course has given a insight about medication management as this has helped to boost my confidence.

Very good

Medication training was Very profitable and easy to understand ,it was helpful to study so as to always remind myself the right protocols in order to avoid errors .

Easy to follow and absorb information

This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

Interesting and easy to understand

This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

Thank you for this training.

It is a big help for me to know how to administer and handle medication safely.

Good

This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

Good for younger young people

Training was good but for much younger young people I thought, would be difficult with an older teen.

Well explanatory

I enjoyed the course, very informative and straightforward

Why is this training important?

Compliance

It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.

The Administration of Medicines relates to these Health and Safety legislations;

What are some of the NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) Managing Medicines in Care Homes guidance terms?

  1. To provide guidance for those providing medicines to others in Care Homes
  2. A collective responsibility for those who are in Care
  3. Treatment and care should take into account for an individual’s needs

As a minimum, training should cover: the supply, storage and disposal of medicines; safe administration of medicines; quality assurance and record-keeping; and accountability, responsibility and confidentiality

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