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Medicines in Care - Prompting vs Administration

Prompting Vs Administration of medicines.....administer AND to prompt the administration
of  medicines?
A topic close to many of our hearts if we are
in the business of caring for people who takeTherefore, if you are prompting medication
or use any form of medication. It's a mineyou are actually administering it, there is
field isn't it? If you or your care staffno difference in the eyes of the law. The
were administering medicines to your servicesame checks need to be in place, the same
users - you would want to ensure that theyrecord keeping needs to be completed, the
were fully trained and competent to do sosame level of knowledge is required to fully
wouldn't  you?  Me  too.support the client - even if you only prompt
from a monitored dosage system. The monitored
Supporting people in taking their medicationdosage system must be prepared by the
is all a bit scary. What if you get it wrong?pharmacy or a dispensing doctor for you to
The results could be disastrous and thereforelegally prompt or administer from it and
many agencies prefer to think they are actingwhilst they have a responsibility to ensure
on the safe side by not getting involved inthat it leaves the pharmacy with the correct
medicines  administration  at  all.medication inside, you still have the
responsibility to ensure that the right
As a result care organisations are still notperson gets the right dose of the right
training their carers in this vitallymedicines by the right route at the right
important area of care. Why? Because they aretime.
under the mis perception that because they
only prompt the administration of medicines,So - if you are supporting service users who
and do not (in their eyes) administer it,use medication you must ensure that you give
they therefore do not need to go to theyour care workers the best possible training,
trouble  or  expense  of training their team.relevant to your sector of care, that meets
CSCI and Skills for Care requirements in
BUT - did you know that in the eyes of theorder to safe guard your clients, your care
law Administration means to both personallyworkers and your business.



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