I entered the building and used the alcohol hand gel and rubbed into my hands thoroughly and this again is to prevent cross infection and stops staff and visitors bringing in germs and infections into the home which can cause service users to be ill and also staff. I went into to the office and staff member were sitting ready to complete a handover. A handover is essential when working in Health and Social Care as it prepares the staff taking over the shift to be well informed of the service users and any changing needs that may have happened since their last shift. During the handover the phone rang and I got up to answer it and left the handover, a lot of staff had been off with a sickness bug and this made me feel anxious as I knew we would be short staffed. I did not hear the remaining part of the handover but wasn’t to concerned about this as I had missed handovers before to attend to the service users.
I carry out health and safety checks, which also make sure the clients, are using the properties correctly and cleanliness is recorded. Fire checks are recorded and evacuations are timed. My responsibilities include boundaries with the clients and responsible behaviour. Provide a professional service to clients and be respectful to their needs. We have team planning and processing meetings, client reviews and process regularly.
Introduction to Personal development in Health, Social Care or Children’s and Young People’s Setting : 1. : A Care Assistant provides help and support to people with limited mobility or other care needs. This covers a wide variety of patients from people with physical disabilities to children with learning disabilities to elder people. This support might be completely health related or could also include social work like helping people writing letters or organizing their budgets. It may require to help clients with daily personal care like washing, feeding themselves, lifting and moving patients, using the toilet or helping families dealing with new responsibilities. Care Assistants might work in a Residential and Nursing homes and communities.
Also it’s the manager’s job to ensure that the staff have a regular check of wearing the right uniform and log it if they are not. This ensures safety in the care home of the care worker but most importantly the elderly. Hazard 2: To reduce the risks to users in an indoor space, the cleaning staff needs to make sure that whenever water is spilt on the floor, they need to have a wet floor sign to make the users know that they need to avoid walking on the wet floor. Where the carer is holding the hot drink, she needs to ensure that she has a trolley that fits all the food and drinks together, to avoid any accidents. It is also the manager’s job, to have a person, who is well-trained to know about these hazards, so it can be avoided in the future.
Introduction to duty of care in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings 1 Understand the implications of duty of care 1.1 Define the term ‘duty of care’ The responsibility to care for someone who is not able to care for themselves and requires assistance and to protect there health and safety and to avoid careless injury. 1.2 Describe how the duty of care affects own work role The duty of care you have in your job is to keep yourself safe and your service user safe. Keep up to date on your training. Always wash your hands before attending a service user before and after, and wear the protective aprons and gloves that are supplied by your work. 2 Understand support available for addressing dilemmas that may arise about duty of care 2.1 Describe dilemmas that may arise between the duty of care and an individual’s rights Important medication needs to be taken and there is a risk they can become ill if they don’t take them.
In the hospital ward scenario where there was a patient suffering from dementia, my first recommendation was that cleaners should be trained regularly on how to clean dirty cups properly and should be ensured the consequences for the patients if this was not done properly. I recommended this because if cleaners are trained regularly and reminded on how to clean cutlery properly, and were ensured that this should be done as regular as possible. This recommendation could be referred to the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) because this act includes safe training for the employees, in this case the cleaners. It includes high standards of hygiene which fits into this recommendation because the training involves ensuring how to clean dirty cups properly. (www.legislations.gov.uk, Accessed 04/10/13).
For example when assisting a service user to have a bath, shower or to use the toilet you must always wear the PPE (personal protective equipment) provided when removing any soiled clothing you must dispose of it in the correct way using the sluice bags that are provided and the sluice bags should be tided shut thus preventing any infection among other service users clothes. Any PPE used should be disposed of in the room you have used and before leaving that room employees must ensure they wash their hands using the correct hand washing method displayed. Another responsibility employees have is to prepare and maintain environment before and after patient care making sure all PPE is worn if there are any bodily fluids in the room i.e. on the floor sink etc this spiliage should be cleaned up immediately using the appropriate disinfectant cleaning products to prevent any infection spreading such as MRSA, C Diff and the norovirus. Q: 1.2 Explain employers’ respsonsibilitys in relation to the prevention and control of infection.
Roles and Responsibilities of Personnel In a health and social care setting each member of staff has a specific role when dealing with service users and the prevention and control of infections. Care workers such as nurses have a responsibility to keep the risk of infection to a minimum in a health and social care setting. They must consider themselves, their colleagues, their patients and visitors while on duty. Care workers must maintain a good personal hygiene at all times and wash hands thoroughly before and after contact with the patients that they are treating. They must also wash hands after using the toilet and before handling food.
You will also be accountable for the quality of work and maintaining an up to date knowledge and skills for the profession in wish to work in. The duty of care comes in with my job as a care support worker in the form of caring for people, with multiple mental difficulties as some have learning difficulties and poor personal living skills (day to day life). Where I work we have different levels of care we have people on rehab programmes helping them to gain different life skills such as cooking, cleaning and personal care (baths/showers, cleaning teeth etc) we have one individual who lives in the bungalow attached to the home and we support him with his day to day life making sure he has taken his medication that he needs it is my job as carer to call him for his medication and see that he comes to the medication room and if he requires a doset box with his medication in for a weekend with his family it is also my duty of care to him to explain when the tablets must be taken and the importance of them and to fill out the paperwork explaining what
Unit ICO1 The principles of infection prevention and control Assessment Criteria Outcome 1 Understand roles and responsibilities in the prevention and control of infections The learner can: 1. explain employees’ roles and responsibilities in relation to the prevention and control of Infection They have to always be aware of and report changes in the health conditions of the individuals that they support. They also have a responsibility to assist with keeping work areas, and equipment clean, tidy and free from infection hazards. [ They are also encouraged to maintain good personal hygiene for themselves as well as their service users. For example, helping service users bathe, use the toilet and change remove and dispose of any soiled clothing. Another responsibility they hold is preparing and maintaining environment before and after episodes of patient care.