Course

Welcome to Neonatal Injectable Medication Administration Course!

General Objective

The aim of this course is to improve your understanding and capacity to apply the main mechanisms that enhance the safe and effective administration of injectable medication in neonatal care. 

Duration of the course 5 hours

Target Audience

This course is especially targeting nurses, as primarily responsible for safe medication administration. The course is mainly oriented to nurses providing care to sick neonatal patients, either in the Neonatal Unit, the Paediatric ward or in the Maternity department.

Other health care staff involved in the medication use process (prescribers such as clinicians, clinical officers…) may also benefit, but are not specifically targeted in this course.

Methodology

Online course - Self-learning

Certification

Participants will be awarded with a badge and a certificate upon completion of all the modules of the course and passed with a 80% minimum score the final assessment. 

Module 1. Medication Safety in Neonatal Care

Module 2. Neonatal Injectable Medication Handbook: how to use it

Module 3. Methods of administration 

Module 4. Calculating Medications and Flow Rates

Module 5. Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) considerations

Module 6. Final Assessment