Identify and understand the differences between the three levels of administration: Prompting medication; Assisting with administration or Administering medication.

1. Welcome to UKHCA’s
Medication
Levels of Administration Webcast
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2. Prompting medication
Care workers prompt by:
 Reminding the person to take their medication
 Asking whether they have remembered to take their
medication
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3. Assisting with medication
Assistance is at the request of the service user
ie. the person is in full control of their medication but just
can’t manipulate the packets or bottles
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4. Assisting with medication
Care workers assist by:
 Opening bottles and packets
 Shaking bottles
 Removing lids
 Popping pills out of packets
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5. Administering medication
The person lacks the ability or capacity to manage
their own medication safely
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6. Administering medication
The care worker administers by:
Checking the medication requirements against the
medication administration record (MAR), prepares
and gives these medications to the service user
This might include:
 Removing medication from bottles and packets or
from a sealed compliance aid;
 Pouring out a dosage of medicine:
and giving them to the service user to take
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7. Administering medication
 This might also include:
 Applying creams and lotions
 Instilling eye, ear and nose drops
 Giving invasive medication eg. injections, oxygen,
suppositories or giving medication via a PEG
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8. Just to recap
 Prompting medication – asking or reminding the
person
 Assisting with medication – helping to manipulate
containers
 Administering medication – checking first what is
needed on the MAR, then preparing and giving this
medication
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10. Thank you for viewing this webcast
To remind you of our additional medication resources:
 Medication Training Programme available from
http://www.ukhca.co.uk/productdesc.aspx?ID=2
 Medication train the trainer workshop – next workshop
due on Tuesday 20th March in London - for further
details please go to www.ukhca.co.uk/conferences.aspx
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