Medicine in Care Homes Course

Training Pack

Overview

The Medicines in Care Homes training pack has been designed to assist pharmacists in providing training on the management of medication to care staff working in residential care settings. The provision of training to care staff is a requirement of the National Quality Standards for Residential Care Settings for Older People in Ireland published by HIQA. The training can be used as an introduction to medicines for new care staff or as a refresher for existing staff . Each pack contains one pharmacist’s manual and six training workbooks for care staff.

Cost

Medicines in Care Homes Packs The cost is €95 for IPU members and €155 for non-members (Each pack contains one pharmacist’s manual and six training workbooks for care home staff.)

Additional Training Workbooks for care home staff (contains 6 training workbooks) The cost is €60 for IPU members and €90 for non-members.

How to Enrol and Pay

1. Go to www.ipu.ie.
2. In the top menu, click on “IPU Professional Academy” and then select Training Courses.
3. If you want to browse first, just click View Course to read the details.
4. From the Training Courses page, you can add courses to a shopping cart by hovering over the course you want and clicking Add to Cart. You will be able to increase the quantity at the Checkout point. You can continue adding other courses to the cart, or when you are done, click View basket on the last course you added, or, if you are viewing a course, click on the basket icon in the right-hand corner and click View Basket.
5. From here, you can increase the quantity but make sure to click Update Basket if you do so.
6. Please, make sure you click on the green button ”Members Login” and log on if you are a member, so the system will show the member price.
7. Click Proceed to Checkout when you are happy with your booking (s) and enter your billing and pharmacist details.
8. You can then scroll down to enter the student details. For example, if you are intending on booking one student on one course and then two students on to a different course, you will see three student bookings appear in the Checkout, since you are booking three slots. The name of the course (s) you have selected will appear at the top of each slot so you can enter the details of the appropriate student to the selected course. You would then repeat the same for the next two student slots.
9. After entering all the required information, enter your card details and click Place Order to pay for all of the bookings in one go. This eLearning course is available to purchase 24/7 and is placed on the IPU Professional Academy Learning Management System (LMS).