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Assist With Medication Course

What will I learn?

Improve your skills with our Helping Out with Medicines Course, made for people who work with older folks. Become good at teaching and talking to patients, focusing on building trust and properly teaching older patients about how to use their medicines. Learn the basics of how medicines work, understanding what they do, how they're grouped, and how they interact with each other. Learn how to give medicines safely, including when to give them, how much to give, and how to give them. Look into how medicines affect older people, dealing with changes that come with age and when people are taking many medicines at once. Make sure you're following the best ways to write things down and keep medicines safe, stopping mistakes from happening and dealing with any bad side effects.

Apoia's Unique Offerings

Online courses with lifetime access
Certificate aligned with educational standards
Printable PDF summaries
24/7 online support
Select and organise the chapters you wish to study
Set your own course workload
Instant feedback on practical activities
Study at your convenience, no internet required

Develop your skills

Enhance your practical skills listed below

Build trust: Make strong relationships with patients by talking to them well.

Educate patients: Teach older patients how to use their medicines safely and stick to their treatment.

Understand pharmacology: Get to know how medicines work, how they're grouped, and how they interact.

Administer medication: Become an expert in when to give medicines, how to work out the right amount, and how to give them.

Ensure safety: Stop mistakes from happening 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 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 similar to the examples below

This is a free course aimed at personal and professional development. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but provides practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.