Management of Medication in Healthcare - Awareness Course

Description

Medication management is the process of overseeing the medications prescribed for a patient to ensure they are taken properly and achieving their planned, therapeutic outcome. The process includes initial and ongoing medication review to address safety and adherence concerns, reduce adverse drug events, educate patients, and engage patients and their caregivers. Having good up-to-date knowledge of the safe handling of medicines is essential for anyone working with medication. This course will help you gain an understanding of how to store and dispose of medicines in a safe way, how to administer medicines safely and how to ensure that record keeping and audits are completed correctly.

Who Should Attend?

• Pharmacists , store personnel, doctors and nurses
• Auditors
• Certification managers
• Healthcare safety & quality personnel
• Inspectors
• Owners/directors of healthcare organizations
• Fresher and job seekers
• QA/QC Personnel
• Regulatory Authorities & Personnel

Key Benefits

• Understand medication and prescriptions
• Know the best practices for supply, storage and disposal of medication
• Learn the best practices to store look alike and sound alike medicines
• Understand the regulatory requirements and guidelines
• Learn to develop effective Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for management of medication
• Conduct a risk assessment and develop controls
• Identify and select proportionate mitigation measures
• Learn the documentation practices for medication management
• Learn to develop an effective training and communication strategy for managing medicines
• Learn the inspection and verification techniques to check the effectiveness of medication management
• Understand the techniques to report and investigate adverse drug events
• Learn medicine recall procedure

Learning & Evaluation Method

This is a self learning course. Study materials will be available in your account once you purchase the course. If you need a live and interactive course, you can opt for ‘ BUY FOR A GROUP ‘ option. Live course will have role plays, online workshops, practice questions and group discussions during the course so that each participant will gain in depth knowledge in the subject. Group purchase can be made for a single participant or for a group of participants. On receiving your order, our team will contact you to schedule a live training session as per your convenience. After the completion of this course you can participate in the online examination if you wish to test your knowledge . Those securing minimum 50% marks will pass the exam. You will be allowed to retake the exam. Attending the exam is not mandatory to receive a course completion certificate.