Beacon Career Training

This two-hour comprehensive course has been developed for the healthcare providers who help the patients self-administrate their medications. No doubt, the patients must be capable of taking their own medication, but some assistance or monitoring with self-administration of their own medication should also be there. The healthcare provider must go through this course before carrying out this highly sensitive medication responsibility.

Course Objective
• Identify laws related to assisting with medications
• Explain how to read prescriptions
• Abbreviations, and how to clarify an order, correct labels
• Describe the different routes
• Define the different forms of medications
• Six “Rights” of Medication Administration
• Identify the most common classes of medications
• Self-Administration of Non-prescription Medication
• Describe side effects
• Identify ways to store medication
• Medication Side Effects and Drug Interactions
• Misuse of Medications

CE Hours: 2


Once you have completed the registration process, you will be automatically logged in to your course and can begin immediately. You can also choose to log out and continue at another time. It's entirely up to you! Our online courses are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and you can start and stop as often as necessary to accommodate your schedule. The student will have 30 days to complete the course.