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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Dysphagia: Swallowing Difficulties and Medicines
UEA (University of East Anglia)
This online course explored how best to administer medicines considering the formulation, prescribing law, patient adherence and individual needs.
6 weeks, 2 hours per week
Professor David Wright
Professor of Pharmacy Practice
UEA (University of East Anglia)
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe the swallowing process and different causes of swallowing problems.
- Describe the different types of medicines formulations and how these should be administered to patients.
- Describe how tablets and capsules are designed to ensure that drugs are appropriately distributed in the body.
- Describe special considerations which need to be taken into account when giving medicines to older people and children.
- Describe the special considerations which are required to administer medicines via enteral tubes.
- Describe the law relating to the selection and administration of medicines.
- Describe how best to administer medicines to patients with dysphagia.
Syllabus
- Definition and causes of dysphagia
- How to improve medicines administration for patients with dysphagia
- Supporting patients with dysphagia to take their medicines
- Different medicine formulations and the important considerations for patients with dysphagia
- Legal and ethical considerations when administering medicines to patients with dysphagia
- Standardising the approach to reviewing medicines in patients with dysphagia
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Issued on 22nd August 2020
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