The medication administration process is made up of five stages, ordering or prescribing, the second is transcribing and verifying of the medication, the third is to dispense and deliver the medication. The fourth and fifth steps are administering the medication and monitoring and reporting. Find out more in Safe Handling and Administration of Medication.

Alison’s Safe Handling and Administration of Medication course is comprised of two modules and includes 1.5-3 hours of learning.

The Safe Handling and Administration of Medication course outcomes include being able to distinguish between the policies and protcols involved in medicine administration, the importance of medication safety, and being able to state the standard operating procedures of the safe and secure handling of medication.

Alison’s Safe Handling and Administration of Medication course explores the safety procedures used in medicine management to provide you with these important medical safety skills. We explain how to handle hazardous drugs and prevent prescription errors. We also describe how the Covid-19 pandemic affected the use of medicine.