Unit 33 : Supporting Use of Medication in Social Care Setting
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Unit 33 -Supporting use of medication in social care setting
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3P 1 Present Policies as well as regulation related to the usage of medication in social caresetting..........................................................................................................................................3TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4P2 Functions and responsibilities of those people who are involved in the supporting theusage of medication in social care setting...................................................................................4TASK 3............................................................................................................................................4P3 Administration of medicines in health and social care setting..............................................4P4 Methods by which medicines can be Administered..............................................................5P5 Different Formats medicines can be presented......................................................................6P 6 different equipment used for medication administration ....................................................6TASK 4............................................................................................................................................6P7 significance of accurate recording of information in Health and social care setting.............6TASK 5............................................................................................................................................7P 8 Identifying storage errors......................................................................................................7P 9 Identifying the need of control in health and social care setting..........................................7CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................71
INTRODUCTIONMedicines plays important role in health care setting. It helps persons in improvinghealth. Medical practitioner should be very careful when prescribing the medicines to patients.As this activity involves a lot of risk to patient health. Medical staff should be aware about theimp[act of the medicines and required to provide complete details about the usage of medicinesto patients. As this activity will help in preventing medical errors.The objectives of this project is to support medical team in health and social care settingin developing about supporting use of medication .It also emphasizes on the several legislationsrelated to health care practices.TASK 1P 1 Present Policies as well as regulation related to the usage of medication in social care setting.There are several legislations which are formed by government in order to regulate aswell as govern the use of medicine in health and social care setting. Few acts related to healthand special care setting restrict the usage of special medicines which have adverse effect on thehuman health. Overconsumption of such kind of medicines can lead event to patient death. Somenorms related to usage of medicine in health and social care setting are:Medicine Act 1968- This legislation are applicable to sales , supply , licensing as well asmanufacturing of medicines. Medicine act provides the method of disposing medicine. It alsostates the medicines can only be prescribed to patient by practitioner or expert or by qualifiedperson such as a doctor. According to this act , medical practitioner are required to undergovarious types of training after which an individual can prescribed medicine to patient.Misuse Drug Act 1971 -This legislation has been developed by legal authoring for controllingusage of possibly harmful drug. These legislations provide the method or way of preserving aswell as using the medicines. It provides the appropriate guidance which precise the specific timeperiod up to which particular drug can be consumed after which medicine get expired.Health Act-This law provides several monitoring preparation for controlling the utilisation ofsome special kind of medication.Misuse of Drugs Safe Custody Regulations 2007-This law or regulation is related to handling,storing as well as documenting controlled medicine (Henderson and Henderson, PrimeWellness,2015)2
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