Are you responsible for auditing medication procedures? This course is designed for nurses and senior staff in care homes who are accountable for the management of medicines. Opus’ 3-hour interactive workshop aims to help care homes exceed the standard for medicines management and to sustain their performance.

Objectives

1. To understand the processes involved with medicines management
2. To undertake effective audits that work for your care setting
3. To reduce the likelihood of error associated with mismanagement of medicines
4. To manage incidents when they happen

Course Content:

• What is poor practice?
• Identifying good practice
• How to get it right
• Understanding processes
• What are the hazards
• Importance of records
• Principles of an audit tool
• Action planning
• Exercise and activities
• Case studies and scenarios to assess understanding of principles

The accredited course to enable senior staff to effectively audit medicines in care homes to prevent medicines errors and incidents.