Course Title: Follow safe work practices for direct client care
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2019
Course Code: OHTH5910C
Course Title: Follow safe work practices for direct client care
School: 174T School of VE Engineering, Health & Science
Campus: City Campus
Program: C4367 - Certificate IV in Allied Health Assistance
Course Contact: Veemita Kaul
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4662
Course Contact Email: veemita.kaul@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Jade Cusworth
jade.cusworth@rmit.edu.au
Nominal Hours: 25
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None
Course Description
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required for a worker to participate in safe work practices to ensure their own health and safety, and that of others in work environments that involve caring directly for clients. It has a focus on maintaining safety of the worker, the people being supported and other community members.
This unit applies to all workers who require knowledge of workplace health and safety (WHS) to carry out their own work, in both centre-based and home-based service provision.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
HLTWHS002 Follow safe work practices for direct client care |
Element: |
1. Follow safe work practices for direct client care |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Follow workplace policies and procedures for safe work practices 1.2 Identify existing and potential hazards in the workplace, report them to designated persons, and record them according to workplace procedures 1.3 Identify any client-related risk factors or behaviours of concern, report them to designated persons, and record them according to workplace procedures 1.4 Follow workplace policies and procedures to minimise risk 1.5 Identify and report incidents and injuries to designated persons according to workplace procedures |
Element: |
2. Follow safe work practices for manual handling |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Follow manual handling procedures and work instructions for minimising manual handling risk 2.2 Identify manual handling hazards and report in line with workplace procedures 2.3 Apply control measures for minimising manual handling risk |
Element: |
3. Follow safe work practices for infection control |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Follow standard precautions as part of own work routine to prevent the spread of infection 3.2 Recognise situations when additional infection control procedures are required 3.3 Apply additional precautions when standard precautions alone may not be sufficient to prevent transmission of infection 3.4 Identify risks of infection and report them according to workplace procedures |
Element: |
4. Contribute to safe work practices in the workplace |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1 Raise WHS issues with designated persons according to organisational procedures 4.2 Participate in workplace safety meetings, inspections and consultative activities 4.3 Contribute to the development and implementation of safe workplace policies and procedures in own work area |
Element: |
5. Reflect on own safe work practices |
Performance Criteria: |
5.1 Identify ways to maintain currency of safe work practices in regards to workplace systems, equipment and processes in own work role 5.2 Reflect on own levels of stress and fatigue, and report to designated persons according to workplace procedures 5.3 Participate in workplace debriefing to address individual needs |
Learning Outcomes
The critical learning for this course takes place in clinical placement within the health sector and within simulations at RMIT clinics.
You will be instructed in skills through demonstration, modelling and roleplay. Skills development is supported by lectures on theory
At the completion of the curse, the students should be able to
- Follow safe work practices for direct client care
- Follow safe work practices for manual handling
- Follow safe work practices for infection control
- Contribute to safe work practices in the workplace
- Reflect on own safe work practices
Details of Learning Activities
A combination of activities will support students learning in this course.
• Face-to-face &/or online lectures to cover theoretical and practical concepts for each topic in the course
• Students will learn to apply their skills and knowledge to work integrated learning (WIL) in the student & clinical practice environment, during simulations and classroom based learning
• Work experience &/or placements observation of performance in the workplace will be a valuable part of your learning experience
• Tutorial activities (individually and in teams) to discuss, debate, critique and consolidate your ideas and extend your understanding around key concepts within specific topics
• Utilise and develop critical research and cognitive skills to find credible sources of health information
• Self-directed study time (eg. readings or activities around theory) to enhance and strengthen your knowledge and understanding of theoretical concepts
• To further facilitate learning students are strongly encouraged to use a range of communication tools between themselves and their course instructor as well as between themselves and fellow students by using the online learning platform
Teaching Schedule
Session |
Topic |
Activities & Assessments |
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1 |
Topic 1-Follow safe work practices for infection control |
Introduction to SWP Principles, Hand washing, Fire drill , Incident reports
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2 |
Topic 2- Follow Safe work practices (SWP) for direct client care |
. Begin risk assessment |
3 |
Topic 3- Follow safe work practices for manual handling |
Start workplace inspection checklist |
4 |
Topic 4- Contribute to safe work practices in the workplace, Meetings and reporting
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Continue completing your assessments Hand washing, Fire drill , Incident reports |
5 |
Topic 5- Reflect on own safe work practices |
Continue completing your assessments Hand washing, Fire drill , Incident reports |
6 |
Review Course Work |
Continue completing your assessments Hand washing, Fire drill , Incident reports
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Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
All resources are available through the Canvas LMS
Overview of Assessment
Assessment task 1 - Online: Hand hygiene certificate submission
Assessment Task 2 - Simulated workplace risk assessment assignment
Assessment task 3 - Online knowledge quiz
You will be provided with an assessment overview for the course and a descriptor for each assessment task in Canvas.
Feedback is provided on each assessment.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment Tasks:(AT) |
Name |
Due Date |
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WHS002 AT1 |
Online module: Handwashing Certificate |
To be advised in Canvas LMS
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WHS002 AT2 |
Workplace inspection and Incident report |
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WHS002 AT3 |
Online Quiz- Follow Safe work practices |
In order to gain competency in this course, students must complete ALL pieces of assessment AND receive S (Satisfactory) grades for all assessments.
Assessment details can be found in Canvas
Assessment Matrix
AT1 -A short online handwashing course will be provided for students to complete with an online certificate provided on successful completion
AT2- A simulated workplace inspection and incident report
AT3 - A knowledge quiz will be provided in Canvas and is a self paced workbook to be completed in and out of the classroom.
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