Hand washing is important to remove dirt and most transient organisms (Class notes, 2012). Hand washing is one of the main ways to stop the spread of viruses and everyone working in a care facility should carry out this process. Staff should wash their hands at the start of every shift, before and after attending to each client and after they have used the toilet. Posters should be placed above sinks and at their desks reminding them to wash their hands, also around the corridors and in toilets so patients and visitors are aware of it. Hand washing in a care environment is vitally important due to the amount of sick and vulnerable patients that care staff looks after on a day to day basis.
By ensuring that our own health and hygiene not pose a risk to service users and colleague. Effective hand washing is carried out when working with service users, giving personal care, handling/preparing food. Finally we have to ensure that we use protective clothing provided when needed and appropriate. 1.2Explain employers’ responsibilities in relation to the prevention and control infection Employers must have written policies describing the measures they take to prevent and control infection in order to uphold the law. Employers should have accessible (easily located, understandable, straight forward and manageable) infection prevention and control procedures that ensure a safe environment and safe working practices.
Keep up to date on your training. All ways wash your hands before attending a service user before and after, and wear the protective aprons and gloves that are supplied by your work. 1.2 Explain how duty of care contributes to the Safeguarding or protection of individuals In my work role you have a duty of care to raise any concerns you may have about any aspect of your work. These can range from poor working conditions, poor equipment, poor practice by other staff and raising concerns about potential abuse cases and situations of neglect. It is my duty of care to safeguard individuals from harm.
The Term 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. 1.2 Describe how the duty of care affects ownwork role. The duty of care you have in your work role is to keep yourself safe and your resident safe. Keep up to date on your training.
Gareth Butroid NVQL2HSC Unit 58 Support Individual To Meet Personal Care Needs Explain how to report concerns about the safety and hygiene of equipment or facilities used for personal care. (2.3) Facilities and equipment used for personal care should be in good working order, safe and clean. We all have a responsibility under health and safety law to ensure the safety of all the people using the premises, be observant by not putting anyone at risk of danger or harm. Equipment should be checked regularly, and all electrical equipment needs to be tested and confirmed to be safe. Become familiar with correct working of equipment, that way you will recognise when things are not right.
We need to be clean and hygienic at all times aswell as promoting good hygiene to the individuals we support. As an employee we all have adequate training on the awareness of infection and prevention control and there are workplace procedures such as temperature checks, cleaning schedules, risk assessments and Health and Safety policies that we must all adhere to for the protection of everyone in the workplace. We are regularly required to do refresher courses on these and have to read and sign that we regularly read our workplace policies that are in place. It is also required that we report any changes to any individual’s health conditions that we support. We must assist in keeping all areas and equipment clean, tidy and free from infection hazards and if we have soiled clothing for
In my work role I also have a responsibility to provide a duty of care to all patients receiving care. This is `The legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care, using your services or exposed to your activities`. (Collins 2015) I am required to work to an excellent standard and quality of care, adhering to my organisations policies in my everyday practice. The trust value that I meet are; `We put our patients at the centre of everything we do’ `We focus on our people’ `We involve our people in making decisions’ and `We deliver excellence’ (Trust values booklet.) I am expected to ensure that all patients are treated fairly and with dignity and respect, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and diagnosis, and always act in the best interests of the individual whilst allowing them to be as independent as possible.
A cleaning schedule should be written this should specify the staff responsible for cleaning, the frequency of cleaning and methods used and the expected outcomes. The work environment must be visibly clean, free from dust and soilage and acceptable to service users, their visitors and other staff. Increased, thorough cleaning should be done where an outbreak of infection has occurred, where the pathogen concerned survives in the environment – In these situations the use of recommended detergents and cleaning chemicals stated in the Infection Control Policy must be used. All healthcare workers need to be trained and aware of their individual responsibility for keeping themselves hygienically clean and for maintaining a safe and clean environment for service users and staff. Equipment in the clinical environment must be decontaminated appropriately after each use and before moving onto another service user.
Employees' should make sure they are wearing the correct PPE and make sure they are washing their hands probably. Also it is important for all employees' to attend training. 1.2 Explain employers responsibilities in relation to the prevention and control of infection. Employers responsibilities is to provide the correct PPE. Also to make sure their employees attend training and supply the training.
We have a duty to follow all risk assessments for each service user, attend all mandatory training and to report any unsafe practises that i see. 1.2 The duty of care contributes to the safe guarding of individuals, in ways such as risk assessments carrying them out on a daily basis. for a carer we assess things all the time to prevent anything from happening. We having manual handling training also to prevent any harm towards our clients and also to show the carers the proper way in which to handle different clients. Policies and procedures are in place, so this prevents any unnecessary conflict in the adult care sector.