Medication Awareness Training
This course is suitable Residential or Domiciliary care workers requiring level 1
or level 2 Medicine Awareness training, as outlined in the CQC guidance to inspectors.
It will also benefit Care Workers undertaking training in the Skills for Care Knowledge
set on Medication or care workers undertaking NVQ Unit HSC375.
Medication Awareness Course Content:
 Key CQC definitions on medicine awareness
Care values
Legislation, Policy and procedures
Classification of medicines
Types of medicines
Maintaining medication records
Collection, storage, disposal medicines
Safe handling of medicines
Supporting self-administration
Administration of medicines
Reporting mistakes, recognising and reporting changes
This course provides the underpinning knowledge required for Residential
and Domiciliary care workers to:
1. Support service users who are self-medicating
2. Administer medication within their care setting (referred to as level 1 and
level 2 training in the CQC Guidance to Inspectors)
The course is based on the Skills for Care knowledge set on Medication, and
Care Workers who are undertaking their NVQ will benefit from this course as it
is mapped to units HSC221, HSC236 and HSC375 |
