Medication Awareness Online

What is a drug? What are the different categories of medication? What is a controlled drug? What are the 5 schedules of controlled drugs? What can be a reason to why someone may take medication? How can medication be received? What should be checked when the medication has been obtained? What legal requirements should be on a medication? What are the storage requirements for medications? How does medication work? What types of side effects can occur? What is an Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR)? What are the different forms of medication? What is covert medication? What are the 9 rights of medicines administration? What is consent and how is it used? What is the Mental Capacity Act?
Our Medication Awareness course will help you answer the questions above and more.
A medicine is any substance or combination of substances that may be administered to a human or animal with a view to making a diagnosis or to restoring, correcting, or modifying physical functions.

Through our Medication Awareness course, you will gain an understanding of what the different types of legislation are useful for. You will learn that different types of medication may require certain specific storage requirements. You will learn the angles for inserting injections. You will learn how to correctly administer medication through using the 9 rights of medicines administration. You will also learn what the staff should do before administering the medication.