Are you responsible for auditing medication procedures? This course is designed for nurses and senior staff in hospices who are accountable for the management of medicines. Opus’ 3-hour interactive workshop aims to help hospices 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:

• Standards for medicines management in hospices
• Key principles of medicines use
• Identifying good practice
• Understanding processes
• Managing the hazards
• Importance of records
• Principles of an audit tool
• Clinical issues
• Incident management
• Clinical update

The accredited medicines management course for nursing staff in hospices.