Do you need to learn about administering medications for your work role? Are you looking to advance your skills as a health professional?
HLTHPS007 Administer and monitor medications is an accredited and robust unit of competency that will teach you how to safely administer medications to people in a healthcare environment. This may be in a range of settings under delegation from a health professional in accordance with legislation and the organisations’ medication and delegation policies and practice.
With an Adept Training course qualification, a new career in healthcare could be yours. Job prospects include Pathology Collector, Phlebotomist, Specimen Collection Officer, Practice Assistant and many more.
Face-to-face education with a supportive and dedicated trainer at our Western Sydney college. Choose from short courses to comprehensive, accredited qualifications in healthcare.
Flexible delivery with self-paced learning is available. Some units are undertaken via distance mode so you can do the work in your own time at your own pace.
The course is designed as an online self-paced course with theory and practical components which must be completed. When you enrol you will be sent a log in to the online learning which is designed to take you through the knowledge requirements of the course in a logical, step by step sequence. This may be completed at your own pace, within 12 months, during this time you will have the support of our trainer.
Demonstration of medications being administered to people is a mandatory part of the course and forms part of the assessment for this unit. Students must demonstrate required skills under the supervision of Registered Nurse, Endorsed Enrolled Nurse or Aboriginal Healthcare Practitioner and a qualified assessor.
This may be done in one of two ways; either in the workplace under the supervision of Registered Nurse, Endorsed Enrolled Nurse or Aboriginal Healthcare Practitioner (Video,Facetime or Zoom evidence is required to be sent to our assessor) or students may attend a one day face to face workshop where assessment will be conducted.
This course requires you to have a good understanding of written, verbal and spoken English and maths (known as language, literacy and numeracy ‘LLN’). All students who enrol in a course are required to undertake Adept Training’s LLN assessment.
| Enrolments open | Theory | Observation of Practical Skills Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Now open | Online with trainer support | Either in college or via Zoom |
| Date | Day | Session Time |
|---|---|---|
| 23rd November 2026 | Monday | Practical assessment at Harris Park from 10.00am |
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Course fee - $850.00
HLTHPS007 Administer and monitor medications
The course is designed as an online self-paced course with theory and practical components which must be completed.
This course requires you to have a good understanding of written, verbal and spoken English and maths (known as language, literacy and numeracy 'LLN'). All students who enrol in a course are required to undertake Adept Training's LLN assessment.
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Adept Training is informative, non-judgemental, unbiased and very pleasant to all. The information is easily displayed and the assignments have step-by-step positive feedback and ways of learning.
The best choice of training, helped a lot and I learnt everything expected. Kate was a lovely, great trainer and I always enjoyed my classes. I would recommend others to Adept Traning - a great amount of opportunities and classes to learn from.
Adept Traning is a friendly and welcoming college. I was nervous about changing my career but the teacher and other classmates were very helpful. The learning materials were easy to follow and the assessments were not too complex. Adept Training is a great course provider for all things health.
Adept Training is a great college for studying. The theory and practicals are well balanced, and the teachers and trainers were all nice and professional, helping any student when needed. The blood collection training was great and a fun experience. Would definitely recommend Adept Training to others.
I attended the Drug and Alcohol Training course with Adept and thoroughly recommend this course to all. The course was very interesting and provided the technical knowledge that I need to undertake testing in my workplace. The trainer is extremely knowledgeable and shared her experiences in the field.
I completed my Certificate III in Pathology Collection in 2016 and was granted a position with Australian Clinical Labs soon after. I am so glad that I did my certificate with Adept Training. I gained so much from my classes especially the practical lessons.
I have secured employment after having completed my Pathology Collection and Drugs & Alcohol Collection course with Adept Training last year. As luck would have it I have also received numerous job offers from pathology centres in direct response to the letters of introduction and resume's I delivered to all my local centres and clinics.
I chose Adept Training because Pathology is a course that really piqued my interest and my friends really enjoyed studying at Adept Training. The trainers were helpful and very clear with what they were teaching.
I wasn't sure that I would be able to complete this course, but the trainer Kate made the whole experience possible. I never thought that I would be able to perform venepuncture and now I can. Thank you Kate.
I knew a lot of people who had done the course and spoke highly of it. Our trainer was extremely supportive.
