Specific Medication Areas

A range of education and assessment programs designed by Pathways utilising specific topics relevant to the Care Worker in residential aged care .

More than taking a tablet

This training session is specifically designed to emphasise to the personal care staff that their role in medication administration is more than just providing tablets to residents. The workshop explores their role in relation to different medication forms as well ...
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Medication Administration – Communication and Understanding

While medications contribute significantly to the health and well-being of an individual, they also have a potential to cause harm if not stored, checked, and administered safely. This training session explores the required safe practices related to each of these ...
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Ensuring Safe Medication Administration

Focusing on the importance of safe medication administration and ensuring that organisation policy and procedures are adhered to, this training explores ways to achieve the quality use of medicines with residential aged care. It reviews the role and responsibility of ...
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Making Risky Business Safe

While medications contribute significantly to the health and well-being of an individual, they also have a potential to cause harm if not stored, checked, and administered safely. This training session explores the required safe practices related to each of these ...
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Medicine Administration that Ticks all the Boxes

The Medicine Administration that Ticks all the Boxes training workshop is designed as a medicine update for care workers (PCAs/AINs), working within residential aged care, aligned to their responsibilities and areas of practice so as to ensure that medicines are ...
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Testimonials

Pathways provides a broad range of face to face Mandatory Education topics for residential aged care staff which include the following;

Elder Abuse and Mandatory Reporting

This workshop is designed to assist staff in understanding of the meaning of elder abuse, the relevance and application that this has to the residential aged care environment and the individual staff members’ role and responsibility. It provides staff with ...
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Infection Control

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Mandatory Education

Medication audit tools are used to review and identify areas for improvement within the operational medication system within the aged care facility. They are an integral part of the quality system within the home and serve to ensure that medication systems are not only safe but adhere to required legislative and regulatory requirements, professional guidelines and reflect evidence based practice. Below are two audit tools available for your use within your aged care home. Audit Tool (1) – … Read more

Medication Audit Tools and Resources

Competency is an observable measure that demonstrates not only the ability to perform a skill to a required standard of practice but involves the consistent and committed application of knowledge to ensure repeated procedures are similarly to this expected level. In competency assessment appropriate evidence is collected upon which professional judgements are made that reflect the meeting of required standards of practice and knowledge levels. It is the assessor’s responsibility to collect thi… Read more

Medication Competency Assessment System