Assist With Medication Course
What will I learn?
Improve your abilities with our Course on Assisting with Medicines, created for professionals working with the elderly. Become proficient in patient guidance and communication, emphasising the importance of establishing trust and properly informing elderly patients about how to take their medications. Delve into the basics of pharmacology, learning about how drugs work, their classifications, and how they interact with each other. Learn how to safely administer medications, including when to give them, the correct dosage, and how to administer them. Explore pharmacology specific to elderly patients, focusing on age-related changes and taking multiple medications at the same time (polypharmacy). Make sure that you follow best practices for documenting and ensuring medication safety, preventing mistakes and managing side effects.
Apoia's Unique Features
Develop skills
Strengthen the development of the practical skills listed below
Build trust: Develop strong relationships with patients through effective communication.
Educate patients: Teach elderly patients how to safely take their medications and stick to their treatment plan.
Understand pharmacology: Learn how drugs work, how they are classified, and how they interact with each other.
Administer medication: Master the timing, dosage calculations, and methods of administering medications.
Ensure safety: Prevent mistakes and manage negative reactions by following best practices.
Suggested summary
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours
Before starting, you can change the chapters and workload.
- Choose which chapter to start with
- Add or remove chapters
- Increase or decrease the course workload
Examples of chapters you can add
You will be able to generate more chapters like the examples below
This is a free course focused on personal and professional development. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but it offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.