Description

Our online medication training domiciliary carers course holds a level 2 training certification. Importantly, it is aimed at all care home and social care working environments.

This course is ideal to give individual carer’s the knowledge and skill to understand the safe handling and management of medications throughout the social care environment.

Who is this programme suitable for?
This level 2 online medication training for domiciliary carers course is an ideal learning solution for:

• Individual domiciliary carer’s
• Care home & social care staff

E-learning medication management course, what’s covered?

• Introduction to medication management for the care worker
• Legislation & guidance of medication management
• Principles of medication management
• Service user needs assessment & consent to treatment
• Obtaining the medication
• General support with medications
• Principles of safe administration of medicines
• Specific medications
• Considerations for the safe management of medicines
• Service users with swallowing difficulties
• Covert administration of medicines
• Record keeping
• Self-administration of medicines
• Safe disposal of medicines
• Dealing with significant events involving the handling and administration of medicines.

On completion of this course you will be required to complete an online assessment with a pass mark of 80%. If you do not pass on your first attempt, you do not have to worry, as you can re-take the test as many times as you need with no extra charge.

Course Certification
This online training course is available with free medication training for domiciliary carer’s certification, which is available to download and print on successful completion of this e-learning course.

Our CPD certificate can be used to provide evidence for compliance and audit.

Additional Training Available
Additionally, we also offer an Online Level 3 Safeguarding Adults Training course, which is an ideal training solution for care home staff, including domiciliary carers.

Importantly, we also offer a dedicated care home training website, offering many additional online training courses that are suitable for care home staff. Additional information can be found by following this link to our Online Care Home Training website.

Finally, all of our e-learning courses and programs are accredited by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.