Learn how health and safety guidelines can ensure the safe use of medication in this free online healthcare course. Health professionals require training to safely handle and administer medications to protect the patients in their care from the dangers posed by mishandled medical drugs. This course explores the safety procedures used in medicine management to provide you with these important medical safety skills. We explain how to handle hazardous drugs and prevent prescription errors. We also describe how the Covid-19 pandemic affected the use of medicine.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 186727 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world's largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Explain the importance of medication safety • Distinguish between policies and protocols in medicine administration • State the standard operating procedures (SOP) for the safe and secure handling of medicine • Discuss the importance of personal protective equipment when handling hazardous drugs • Describe the legal and practical documentation required for keeping track of medication • Explain how Covid-19 affects guidelines for safe medication administration |
| Course Code | 5171 |
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