Unit 33 - Supporting Use of Medication in Social Care Setting
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Unit 33 - Supporting Use of Medication in Social Care Setting
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Unit 33 - Supporting Use of Medicationin Social Care Setting
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1P1. Current policies and legislations governing medication in social care settings..............1LO 2.................................................................................................................................................2P2. Roles and responsibilities of social care settings............................................................2LO 3.................................................................................................................................................2P3. way information of medication can be accessed.............................................................2P4. Medication administering routes......................................................................................3P5. Different forms of medication..........................................................................................3P6. Equipment that assist in administration of medication...................................................4LO 4.................................................................................................................................................4P7. Data that must be recorded for use of medications.........................................................4LO 5.................................................................................................................................................4P8. Safe storage of various medications.................................................................................4P9. Way to dispose of un-used or unwanted medications safely...........................................5CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
INTRODUCTIONThe health care services play a significant role in execution of various operations insociety. This will help in betterment of people and help m to gain a better productivity and well-being. For report, NHS is been taken as organisation of context (Punekar., Shukla and Müllerova2014.). The report will cover policies and legislation in medication, roles and responsibility ofsupport staff is been taken into consideration and various routes of accessing medication is beendone along with its various forms (Franken and et.al., 2015). Different equipment are beendiscussed to provide medication. The data recording measures and safe storage of medication arediscussed with disposal of unused medications as well.LO 1P1. Current policies and legislations governing medication in social care settingsVarious legal measures and legislations are used by social care setting to gain a betteridea about medication. Some major acts and policies are as follows:Medicines Act 1968: It involves proper guidelines to manufacture effective medicinesfor human use. Also, proper handling and supplying of medications are explained in thisact. Health Act 2006: Health Act 2006 will help in better handling of various operationsthat will help in significant measures that will help firm to avoid any sort of effectiveconditions like smoking, etc. that can affect health and well-being of individuals insociety (Seibert And et.al., 2014). Controlled Drugs Regulations 2013: This act helps in better handling of variousmeasures which will help in significant control over certain drugs that can be harmful forhuman consumption. It will prevent manufacturing and selling of prohibited drugs inexcess or without licence. Misuse of Drugs Act 2001: This legal method will look after avoidance of illegalmisuse of medication by social care services. This will prevent any sort of overuse andwastage of vital drugs.Besides this, The care quality commission (CQC) will look after better handling ODFvarious operations that will help in significant maintaining of quality standards of medicationsand drugs at social care setting.1
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