Summerfield Pharmacy is committed to collaborating with adult living facilities (ALFs) and long term care residences in order to improve and optimize care of their respective residents. The goal of this collaboration is to produce a competency-based training that provides non-licensed staff with the basic knowledge, skill and guidance needed to ensure safe and effective medication administration and performance of noncomplex tasks.
Objectives:
The objectives of this training are to rain non-licensed personnel in:
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Methods of delivering medication
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Safely and accurately administering medication to ensure the safety of those individuals in your care
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Understanding intended effects of medications, as well as, the potential for adverse side effects
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Recognizing and differentiating side effects
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Properly reporting adverse side effects
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Following instructions given in response to adverse side effects
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Demonstrating competency
Goals:
The three goals that will be met in this training are:
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Introduce learners to concepts related to administering medications and the performance of approved noncomplex tasks.
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Provide learners with experiences in administering approved medications.
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Provide consistency of basic medication administration and performance of approved noncomplex tasks by unlicensed personnel.
Evaluation:
The learner is required to pass the test following each training module with 80% accuracy. A certificate will be provided upon successful completion of the course.
