Assist With Medication Course
What will I learn?
Improve your abilities with our Helping Out With Medicines Course, made for people who work with older folks. Get good at teaching and talking to patients, paying special attention to building trust and teaching elderly patients how to use their medicines the right way. Look closely at the basics of how medicines work, learning about what they do, how they're grouped, and how they affect each other. Learn how to give medicines safely, including when to give them, how much to give, and how to give them. Find out about how medicines work in older people, dealing with changes that come with age and when people take many different medicines. Make sure to keep good records and be safe with medicines, stopping mistakes and dealing with bad side effects.
Apoia's Unique Features
Develop skills
Enhance the growth of the practical skills listed below
Build trust: Make strong relationships with patients by talking to them well.
Educate patients: Teach elderly patients how to use their medicines safely and stick to their treatment.
Understand pharmacology: Learn about what medicines do, how they're grouped, and how they affect each other.
Administer medication: Get good at timing, figuring out doses, and how to give medicines.
Ensure safety: Stop mistakes and deal with bad reactions by following the best ways of doing things.
Suggested summary
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours
Before starting, you can modify the chapters and the workload.
- Select which chapter to commence with
- Add or remove chapters
- Increase or decrease the course workload
Examples of chapters you can include
You’ll be able to generate additional chapters similar to the examples below
This is a free course focused on personal and professional growth. It does not equate to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate qualification, but offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.