Know the work setting’s procedures for receiving, storing and administering medicines
Find and read your setting’s policies and procedures for the receiving, storing and administering medicines.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Find and read your setting’s policies and procedures for the receiving, storing and administering medicines.
- ‘Management of medication of children and childminding services’ from the Scottish Care Inspectorate
- Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage
- ‘Guide to the Children’s Homes Regulations including the quality standards’ from the Department for Education
- ‘Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions’ from the Department for Education
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Look at these information leaflets for parents and carers which provide useful guidance about administering particular medicines to children. These leaflets must not take the place of your own setting’s policies and procedures for administering medicines, but they do provide useful additional information about the medicines described.
- Look at this example policy and procedure for administering medication to children and young people at this childcare service in the London Borough of Hillingdon. Compare the policy to your own setting’s policy and procedure documents. Do you notice anything very different about them? Discuss your thoughts with your tutor.
- Click to read this Department of Health and Social Care guidance for schools in England on using emergency inhalers.
- Click to read this Department of Health and Social Care guidance for schools on creating a policy around the use of emergency auto-injectors (AAI).
- Think And Challenge
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