You Me and Medicines
Safe and Effective Medicines Management Update
Up to 35 delegates
The Course Aim
To update participants in a variety of medicines management issues to improve
Learning outcomes
By the end of the
- The role of the law in relation to medicines management
- Accountability in relation to medicines management & the role of the NMC / own regulatory body
- The need for approved processes & protocols in the
work place relating to medicines management - What defines a legal prescription and who can prescribe
- The parameters of Patient Group Directions
- The need for informed consent and empowering patients relating to their medicines
- Recent medicines management issues
Course content
- Introduction to the Medicines Act 1968 and the Misuse of Drugs Act 1972
- Accountability, NMC, regulatory body and Codes / Standards of Practice
- Accountability relating to Medicines Management in the workplace eg the role of Foundation Trusts
- Who can prescribe
- Patient Group Directions
- Administering medicines – consent
- Checks before administering medicines
- Allergies
- Medicines in an emergency
- How to obtain information about medicines
Trainer
Our trainer Marion Russell BSc (Hons) RN Cert Ed (FE) Cert Health Promotion has been involved in medicines management training since 2003 in the acute, mental health and primary care setting. This includes running medicines management updates for groups of registered nurses, including
Marion has been involved in the writing and monitoring the development of patient group directions and supporting nurses in
She was a member of the steering group working with the NMC on the development of the Standards for Medicines Management which was launched in February 2008.
Marion was the initiator and founder member of the Nurses Working In Pharmacy Network Group set up to support nurses who work in
She is a member of the Association for Prescribing and in November 2018 was
Since her retirement from the NHS in November