You can promote hygiene and safety by:
You can promote safety and good hygiene by:
- Encouraging individuals to wash their hands before and after taking medicines.
- Washing your hands properly and using gloves and aprons.
- Ensuring materials, equipment and surfaces are clean.
- Disposing of waste appropriately.
- Storing medicines safely and securely.
- Ensuring you read the care plan, risk assessment and MAR sheet.
- Ensuring you update the MAR sheet and and daily records required as part of your organisation’s processes.
Always follow your organisation’s policies and agreed ways of working.
Using a social model means being pro-active and supporting the individual to do as much as they can on their own.
Certain adjustments can be made, even where this involves taking more time, to ensure that the individual is supported.
These are some practical things you can do:
.svg)
Class Sessions
1- 1. Different types of medication
2- 2. Different ways medication can be administered
3- 3. Commonly used medications, what they are used for and common possible side effects
4- 4. Changes to an individual’s wellbeing that may indicate an adverse reaction to medication
5- 5. Legal classifications for medication and drugs
6- 6. Roles and responsibilities for prescribing and dispensing medication
7- 7. Roles and responsibilities supporting someone with medication in your organisation
8- 8. Materials and equipment that can assist in administering medication
9- 9. Ordering, receiving and collecting medication
10- 10. Storing medication safely
11- 11. Principles in supporting the use of medication
12- 12. Using risk assessments to promote independence in managing medication
13- 13. Addressing ethical issues that may arise over the use of medication
14- 14. Promoting hygiene, safety, dignity and active participation
15- 15. Strategies to ensure medication is used correctly
16- 16. Reporting medication usage problems
17- 17. How to record use of medication and any changes
18- 18. Legislation that governs the use of medication in social care
19- 19. Policies, procedures and ways of working