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Unit 33 : Supporting Use of Medication in Social Care Setting (Doc)

   

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Unit 33 -SUPPORTINGUSE OF MEDICATIONIN SOCIAL CARESETTING
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1P1 Policy and legislation that governs medication in social care settings.............................1TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2P2 Roles and responsibilities of people who are involved in supporting the use of medication.................................................................................................................................................2TASK 3............................................................................................................................................2P3 Ways of accessing medical information of person............................................................2P4 The routes by which medication can be administered......................................................3P5 Different forms in which medication can be presented.....................................................3P6 Evaluation of how equipment can assist in the administration of medication..................3TASK 4............................................................................................................................................4P7 The data which must be recorded use of medication for individuals in social care settings.4TASK 5............................................................................................................................................4P8 The safe storage of different medications.........................................................................4P9 Analyse the ways by which dispose of un-used or unwanted medications safely............4CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTIONMedical care setting and social care centre helps in maintaining safe and healthyenvironment for service users and health practitioners. The report will outline various tools andequipment which assist in providing appropriate and accurate medication. Further, it will analysevarious regulation and mandatory record keeping which helps in preserving safety andpreventing hazardous incidents. Thus, the report evaluates roles and responsibilities of variousindividual in social care centre such as nurse, support care staff workers etc. TASK 1P1 Policy and legislationthat governs medication in social care settings.Compliance of regulation and governmental legislation is mandatory for social caresetting as it helps in making medication and care services safe and effective. The majorlegislation imposed by government to govern medication is as follows:The Medicines Act 1968: This act is enforced by government to ensure proper use ofmedicines. Like to keep a check over the medicines of human and veterinary use. This actcategorises the use of medicines with the help of prescription. In this, health care centreand pharmacist are bound the sell medicine only after checking prescription. Providingdrugs without referring prescription is punishable offense for which the person can be lifeimprisoned for life.The Misuse of Drugs Act 2001: This is enforced by UK government to control the supplyof drugs because some medicines are used of care centres and many people for illegalpurpose. It is focused on misuse and therefore it aims at administering records,monitoring supply, safe custody, use of drugs and disposal.The Health Act 2006: This government regulation is focused on protecting theenvironment of social care centre (Smith, Schmidt and Saitz, 2010). According to this, itis the responsibility of management to ensure that premises of care centre are safe. This isregulated to control smoking at public places and to protect the interest of patients andemployees working at care centre.TASK 2P2 Roles andresponsibilities of people who are involved in supporting the use of medication.Every individual in social care centre is responsible for different functions and havespecific responsibility to fulfil which are as follows:1
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