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Promote Positive Behaviour of Medication in Social Care Sectors

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Promote Positive Behaviour of Medication in Social Care Sectors

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PROMOTE POSITIVEBEHAVIOUR OFMEDICATION IN SOCIALCARE SECTORS
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3P1 Current legislation and policies regarding handling of medication.......................................3P2 Roles and responsibilities of the person involved in supporting the use of medication........3P3 Way to access information about an individual's medication................................................4P4 Routes to administer the medication......................................................................................4P5 Different forms to present the medication.............................................................................4P6 Assistance provided by the equipment while administering the medication.........................5P7 Data to be recorded about the use of medication for the individuals.....................................5P8 Safe storage of different medications....................................................................................5P9 Procedures to dispose-off unused or unwanted medications safely.......................................6CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTIONHealth is an important aspect for every human being. To help the people in needregarding health many social care sectors are emerging out. Proper medication is required to healthe individual. The National Health Service of United Kingdom is taken into consideration tohave a view over the impact of positive behaviour of medication in social care sector and topromote the same.P1 Current legislation and policies regarding handling of medicationTo heal the patient, it is important to aid them with appropriate medication. For this,various rules and regulations are framed by the government. Some of them are given below:The Controlled Drugs Regulations 2013: To use and manage the drugs in a controlledway, this is introduced by the government. For modern social sectors, this is of utmostimportant and hence, NHS has also implemented this policy.The Misuse of Drugs Act 2001: This came into existence to have a lawful and controlleddrug supply. It includes all the factors which help to prevent the drug misuse, likeprescribing, record keeping, proper disposal, etc.Many other regulations are also there (Sin and et.al., 2015). For example, Medicines Act 1968,the Health Act 2006, etc. All these help to support the positive behaviour of medication in socialcare setting.P2 Roles and responsibilities of the person involved in supporting the use of medicationTo assist in the medication, the practitioners, support workers, nurses and pharmacistsplay a vital role. They have several responsibilities upon them to treat the patients in a betterway. Some of them are listed below:They have to understand the rules and regulations for proper medication.They have to assist the patients or the relatives while opening the bottles of medicineslike, in removing lids if they are not able to do so.They have to take proper care of the patients by asking them at regular interval about theintake of drugs (Sahay and et.al., 2015).They have to give them remedial measures if a particular medicine is not suiting them.They must have the proper knowledge of side-effects and contra indications.Workers should be familiar with the complete history of the patients.They should know the techniques to administer the medication.
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