Course Overview

This course has been developed to provide Registered Nurses and Enrolled Nurses and midwives with an understanding of best practice for safe medication management, medication administration and medication calculation. It does not contain information regarding IV therapy.

This Safe Medication Management course is designed to provide relevant health professionals with training in safe administration of medication.

The safe administration of medication is a crucial skill and key professional development in healthcare. Administering medication is an obviously important task. The goal of this course is to provide suitably qualified nurses and midwives with an understanding of best practice for safe medication management, medication administration and medication calculation. 

Improve Patient Safety by Eliminating Medication Errors.

All nurses and midwives need to be familiar with the current standards of practice for their level of registration. Unfortunately, the reality is that medication administration is a task with a known high rate of error. While there are numerous contributing factors, the responsibility lies with nurses and midwives to make sure medication administration is safe.

Learning Outcomes

The Safe Medication Management courses have been designed to give Registered Nurses, Enrolled Nurses and midwives an understanding of best practice for safe medication management, medication administration and medication calculation. 

Course completion will give the learner:  

• an understanding of their responsibility to safely administer medication and reduce the risk of a medication or adverse drug event occurring 
• the ability to identify key risk points in the medication administration process, as well as implement strategies to reduce these risks, and 
• accurately calculate drug and medication dosages – including tablets, mixtures and solutions. 

The corresponding course, Safe Medication Management Including IV Therapy, also provides training on calculating intravenous fluid volumes and rates. 

Target Audience

The course is designed for qualified nurses and midwives whose scope of practice does not include the administration of intravenous (IV) therapy.