Assist Clients with Medication Course Online (Awareness Training)

• 6 rights of medication administration
• The order of the rights

• Authority to proceed
• What is authority to proceed?
• Other aspects of an authority to proceed
  • Legal requirements
  • Your legal requirements
  • State and territory legislation and regulations
  • The role of care workers and their supervisors
  • If in doubt, ask
  • Duty of care
  • Client assessment
  • What does a client assessment evaluate?
  • Other elements of a client's assessment
  • Chock documentation
  • Identify the authority to proceed
  • Applying the 6 Rs to documentation
  • Reviewing the assistance you may need to provide
  • Other assistance you may need to provide
  • Assessment
  • Assessment: Authority to proceed

• Preparing the client for assistance
• Communication
• Assess the environment
• Check the client's identity
  • Is this the client?
• Behavioural, physical or cognitive changes
• Chocking a client's response
  • Observing changes in the client
• Explaining the process
• Supervising self-administration
• Infection control
• Consent
• Assessment
• Assessment: Preparing the client for assistance

• Administration of medication
• What you need to know
• Personal hygiene procedures
• PPE
  • Applying the '6 rights' when administering medication
• Abbreviations
• Abbreviations for time and frequency
• Abbreviations for the right route
• Abbreviations for typos of medication
  • Identify the abbreviations
• Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
• Assemble equipment
• Required equipment
• Obtain required assistance
• Supervise administration
• Record administration
• Storage of medication
• Keep medication in its original bottle or container
  • Identify safe storage practices for medication
• Cleaning
• Other stops in cleaning the work environment
• Handling waste
  • Safe cleaning practices
• Assessment
• Assessment: Administration of medication

• Oral medication
• Oral medication packaging
• Reasons for packaging
• Typos of packaging
• Wafers and liquids
• Administering oral medication
• Procedure for crushing a tablet
• Not all medication can be altered
• Identifying altered release characteristics
  • Identify the potential consequences of crushing medication
• Splitting or dividing tablets
• Dose Administration Aid (DAA)
• DAAs and changes to medication
• Avoid touching medication
  • Administering a DAA
• Preparing liquid medication
• Dissolving powder medication in water
• Assessment
• Assessment: Oral medication

• Methods of administration
• Different ways of administering medication
• Eye drops
• After the drop is instilled
• Ear drops
• Nose drops
• Inhalants
• Assisting a client to use a motored dose inhalant
• Spacer
• Administering medications through a spacer
• Assisting a client to use a dry powder inhaler
• Nebuliser
• Assisting a client to use a nebulizer
• Keeping the nebuliser in place
  • Inhalants
• Assisting a client to apply ointments, lotions and creams
• Applying an ointment, lotion or cream
• Completing the application of an ointment, lotion or cream
  • Applying a cream
• Transdermal medication
• Transdermal patches
• Heat packs
• Suppositories and pessaries
• Care worker restrictions
• Assessment
• Assessment: Methods of administration

• Handling contingencies
• Typos of contingencies
• Incomplete ingestion
• Reducing the occurrence of incomplete ingestion
• Reporting incomplete ingestion
  • Managing incomplete ingestion
• Contaminated or out-of-date medication
• Life threatening symptoms
• Other changes
• Monitoring changes and allergic reactions
  • Identify life-threatening symptoms
• The causes of physical or behaviour changes
• Observation
• Information hotline
  • The consequence of the incorrect use of medication
• Incorrect administration
• Absence of medication
• Overmedication
• Overmedicating a cream or lotion
• Medication errors
• Reporting medication errors
• Recording inconsistencies
  • Handling medication errors
• Assessment: Handling contingencies

• Summary
• What we've covered
• Completing the course

This course is specifically designed for care and support workers who assist clients in aged care, home, and community settings with their medication needs.

No, to complete this awareness course there are no prior qualifications required.

In this course, you will learn how to ensure you have the authority to assist a client with medication, prepare clients for assistance based on their individual needs, administer various types of medications, understand medication classifications, handle contingencies, complete documentation, and implement hygiene and duty of care procedures.

On completing this course you will receive a certificate of completion which is widely accepted by industry. Check with you workplace if you do need a nationally recognised outcome. If so you will need to successfully complete a practical assessment with a Registered Training Organisation that can issue the relevant unit of competency within their scope of registration.

Yes, this course is available online, allowing you to study at your own pace and convenience.

The course has a run time of approximately 130 minutes.

It is recommended to refresh your training every 2 years to stay updated and maintain your knowledge and skills.

Yes, a Certificate of Completion will be issued to you upon successfully finishing the course. To be deemed as understanding the content, you are required to achieve an 80% pass mark.

Yes, this course covers how to support clients with self-medication in addition to the distribution and administration of prescribed and over-the-counter medication.

Absolutely, this course is designed to provide you with the necessary understanding and skills to assist clients with their medication needs in aged care, home, and community settings.