Understand own role in assisting in the administration of medication
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions: Statutory guidance for governing bodies of maintained school and proprietors of academies in England’ from the Department for Education
- 'Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions: templates’ from Department for Education.
- 'Supporting children with medical needs in schools’ on the Child Law Advice website
- 'Individual healthcare plans explained for parents’ on the School Run website.
- 'Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions: UNISON branch advice on the statutory guidance’ from the UNISON the public service union
- 'Preventing and controlling infections’ from the UK Health Security Agency.
- Find and read your learning organisation’s policies and procedures for the management of the administration of medication.
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Bedfordshire NHS has produced ‘A Questions and Answers Guide to the Administration of medicines in schools and colleges (including over the counter (OTC) medicines, salbutamol and adrenaline auto injectors)
- The Department of Health and Social Care has produced ‘Guidance to the use of emergency salbutamol inhalers in schools’ that covers what to do in the event of an asthma attack.
- The Department of Health and Social Care has produced ‘Guidance on the use of adrenaline auto-injectors (AAIs) in schools’ which covers the use of Epipens.
- This article from React First looks at the law relating to ‘Who can administer an adrenaline auto-injector (Epipen®) to a casualty in an emergency?’
- Think And Challenge
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