Unit 33: Report on Supporting Medication Use in Social Care Settings

This report, focusing on Unit 33 - Supporting Use of Medication in Social Care Setting, provides a comprehensive overview of medication management within healthcare settings. The report begins by examining current policies and legislations, including the Medicines Act 1968, Health Act 2006, Controlled Drugs Regulations 2013, and the Misuse of Drugs Act 2001, and the role of CQC. It then details the roles and responsibilities of social care staff, such as care workers, registered managers, nurses, and pharmacists. The report also explores various methods for accessing medication information, including Medication Administration Record sheets (MAR), care plans, and medical records. Furthermore, it discusses different medication administration routes (inhalation, topical installation, and ingestion), medication forms (liquid, solid, brand, and generic), and equipment used in medication administration (spacer devices, oral syringes, and nebulizers). Data recording, safe storage practices (COSHH, locked storage, heat regulation, and original packaging), and safe disposal methods for unused or unwanted medications are also examined. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of effective medication management and the critical role of healthcare professionals in ensuring patient safety and well-being.

Unit 33 - Supporting Use of Medication
in Social Care Setting

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P1. Current policies and legislations governing medication in social care settings..............1
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................2
P2. Roles and responsibilities of social care settings............................................................2
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................2
P3. way information of medication can be accessed.............................................................2
P4. Medication administering routes......................................................................................3
P5. Different forms of medication..........................................................................................3
P6. Equipment that assist in administration of medication...................................................4
LO 4.................................................................................................................................................4
P7. Data that must be recorded for use of medications.........................................................4
LO 5.................................................................................................................................................4
P8. Safe storage of various medications.................................................................................4
P9. Way to dispose of un-used or unwanted medications safely...........................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The health care services play a significant role in execution of various operations in
society. 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 Müllerova
2014.). The report will cover policies and legislation in medication, roles and responsibility of
support staff is been taken into consideration and various routes of accessing medication is been
done along with its various forms (Franken and et.al., 2015). Different equipment are been
discussed to provide medication. The data recording measures and safe storage of medication are
discussed with disposal of unused medications as well.
LO 1
P1. Current policies and legislations governing medication in social care settings
Various legal measures and legislations are used by social care setting to gain a better
idea about medication. Some major acts and policies are as follows:
 Medicines Act 1968: It involves proper guidelines to manufacture effective medicines
for human use. Also, proper handling and supplying of medications are explained in this
act.
 Health Act 2006: Health Act 2006 will help in better handling of various operations
that will help in significant measures that will help firm to avoid any sort of effective
conditions like smoking, etc. that can affect health and well-being of individuals in
society (Seibert And et.al., 2014).
 Controlled Drugs Regulations 2013: This act helps in better handling of various
measures which will help in significant control over certain drugs that can be harmful for
human consumption. It will prevent manufacturing and selling of prohibited drugs in
excess or without licence.
 Misuse of Drugs Act 2001: This legal method will look after avoidance of illegal
misuse of medication by social care services. This will prevent any sort of overuse and
wastage of vital drugs.
Besides this, The care quality commission (CQC) will look after better handling ODF
various operations that will help in significant maintaining of quality standards of medications
and drugs at social care setting.
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LO 2
P2. Roles and responsibilities of social care settings
The social care setting’s employees will play a significant role in operations of company
and betterment of patients and clients of NHS. various employees will play various roles such
as:
 Care workers: This will involve better handling of different operations which will help
in better handling of different medications to patients depending on disease and needs
of person or client (Stubbs, and et.al., 2014).
 Registered manager: He will look after purchasing, supplying and distribution of
medicines in social and health care setting.
 Nurse: nurses will help in providing proper medication to patient and will see through
effective handling of various health measures in company.
 Pharmacist: pharmacist will look after proper providing and helping of various
medications and or medical tool kits to a social care settings (Härkänen and et,.al., 2015).
LO 3
P3. way information of medication can be accessed
The medication information is vital and important for better handling of various
operations at social care setting can be accessed using various operations and documents that
help in better gaining of various services and handling of different operations. Some major
sources of information are as follows:
 Medication Administration Record sheet (MAR): This will record better growth in
health condition of individual. This will also help in better management of different
operations of company.
 Care plan: It will involve effective planning that will involve better handling of
different operations to provide better care to patient.
 Medical records: These records will help in better handling of various information that
helps in better management of various diseases and measures for its treatments followed
at social care setting (Corrigan, Wilson and Hampton, 2015).
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P4. Medication administering routes
Medication can be administered to following routes that are discussed as below:
 Inhalation: Inhalation medication is used for taking medication that can directly affect
respiration and lungs (Stubbs and et..al., 2014). To improve respiratory system and lungs
people an individual take this medication.
 Topical installation: It is a type of medicine that is applied on skin or drops through
installation.
 Ingestion (Oral): Ingestion is known as oral form of medication in which substance is
taken from mouth. People who suffer from mild disease, ache or chronic pain consume
this type of medicine (Vallerand, Sanoski and Deglin, 2016.).
P5. Different forms of medication
In order to provide a proper care to patient, re are various types of medication used by
service's provider that are as follows: Liquid: There are most of medication which are in liquid form. It can be fluid directly
such as syrups. Brand and Generic Name: re are many medicines which are manufactured under brand
and y are costly which can only be afforded by high status people (Punekar, Shukla and
Müllerova, 2014). However, it is dependent on service provider that which type of
medication it prescribed to patient (Thomson and Chatterjee, 2016). Solid: There are most of medication which are of solid state such as tablets, capsules,
etc.
 Topical: Topical are basically massaged cream which are provided for specific area of
body such as nose, eyes, etc (Kaminsky, Bostwick and Guthrie, 2015).
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P6. Equipment that assist in administration of medication
While providing health care treatment to health care seekers, professionals use numerous
equipment. se equipment aid in reducing manual efforts and improve treatment. Spacer Devices: The devices are used specifically for treatment of asthma. These devices
helps in improving treatment of asthma. It is used to enhance ease of administering
aerosolised medication from metered dose inhaler. Oral Syringes: Oral syringes are used by health care professionals in order to measure
amount of liquid medicine which will be given to patient.
 Nebulisers: In medicine, a nebulizer is a drug delivery device used to administer
medication in form of a mist inhaled into lungs (Mira And et.al., 2015).
LO 4
P7. Data that must be recorded for use of medications
data that must be used for medication is described as below: MAR sheets: Medical Administration Record Sheets are used by health care
professionals in which y document essential information regarding medicines used for
treatment of patient.
 Care Records: Care records are prepared by nurses where y record type of treatment and
amount of medicine given to patient (Burgess., 2016).
LO 5
P8. Safe storage of various medications
Various measures are taken by social care settings to provide better supply and safe
storage of various medications in order to avoid ir misuse and wastage in social care settings.
This will help in proper utilisation of medication that is available in company. This will help in
better handling of various operation at health care (Moore, Fraser, Törrönen and Tinghög,
2015). Some storage measures that are been taken in consideration are:
 COSHH: It stands for 'Control of Substances Hazardous to Health'. This helps in
prevention of hazardous medicines and chemicals like poisons to fall in wrong hands or
get misused.
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 Locked: Certain medicines that are vital or harmful are been locked under lockers at
social care settings to prevent ir misuse and ft.
 Heat regulated: Some medications are temperature sensitive and thus, are needed to be
taken into effective handling of various storage process of medications at social care
home.
 Original packaging: The institution will look after medications which are packed and
not tempered or damaged (Leyens, Reumann, Malats and Brand, 2017).
P9. Way to dispose of un-used or unwanted medications safely
Disposal of un-used or unwanted medications is very important to prevent any serious
happening. It is done under following rules and measures:
 Hazardous waste regulations: This will look after proper disposal of hazardous waste
and medicines which will be produced at social care setting.
 Local guidance and regulation: This will help in better handling of various operations
as per local rules and regulations (Kolind Holm, Duff, and Frank, 2016).
CONCLUSION
Thus, from the report the better management of the various operations that are been taken
at the Social care setting in regard of medication is been taken into effective consideration.
Various legal and general measures are been taken into consideration that will help in the
significant rise in the efficiency of the clinical staff. Also, the various measures of handling of
the drugs and medicines will help in better disposing of unused and unwanted medications.
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