Course Title: Follow safe work practices for direct client care
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 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: C5365 - Diploma of Nursing
Course Contact: Jaye Keating
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99254845
Course Contact Email: jaye.keating@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
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
There are no pre-requisites for this unit of competency
Course Description
This course 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 course 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.
This course includes a Work Integrated Learning experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/or community is integral to your experience.
This course includes clinical placement
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 in RMIT laboratories.
You will be instructed in skills through demonstration, modelling and role-play. Skills development is supported by lectures on theory.
On completion of this course you should be able to:
- Follow safe work practices for direct client care
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
- Follow safe work practices for manual handling
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
- Follow safe work practices for infection control
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
- Contribute to safe work practices in the workplace
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
- Reflect on own safe work practices
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
Details of Learning Activities
All learning activities you will undertake within the course are designed to provide you with the skills, knowledge and attitudes required to perform to the standard expected in the health industry.
Learning activities include:
Face to face delivery – introduce you to the key concepts within the course
Practical laboratories – provide an opportunity to practise your skills in a simulated work environment
Online Quizzes – provide you with formative feedback. placement – provides you with practical experience in a nursing workplace.
Clinical placement- provides you with the opportunity to practise your skills in the workplace.
Teaching Schedule
Date |
Lesson Topic |
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19/02/2019 |
Lesson 1 AT1 - safety symbols test online is available for students after session 1. |
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28/02/2019 |
Lesson 2 |
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05/03/2019 |
Lesson 3 - (second half of the session is AT2 Part A) |
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13/03/2019 |
LAB Session - Manual handling |
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21/03/2018 |
LAB Assessment - Manual Handling |
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Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Nursing Text books, Black board learning resourses, library.
Overview of Assessment
This assessment will incorporate a variety of methods including written, oral, practical tasks and activities.
You will be asked to personally demonstrate to your teacher/assessor the practical skills gained during this course to the relevant industry standards. Assessment activities will occur throughout this course and feedback will be provided at regular intervals
Students must pass each of the following assessment tasks to demonstrate competent.
Assessment tasks
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Assessment Tasks
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Assessment Code |
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AT1 |
Safety symbols online quiz |
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AT2 |
Workplace Emergency Policy and Management |
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3 |
AT3 |
Workplace Hazard Identification |
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4 |
AT4 |
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5 |
AT5 |
Clinical placement
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All the submissions are made online through CANVAS and feedback from your tutor will be provided.
Each assessment task will be graded satisfactory or not satisfactory. All assessment tasks must be graded satisfactory to be deemed Competent for this course.
Assessment Matrix
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Other Information
Please refer to the RMIT Student Page for extensive information about study support, assessments, extensions, appeals and a range of other matters: http://www1.rmit.edu.au/students
You must be competent in all elements to successfully complete the course
You are permitted to have a maximum of 2 resbumissions for this course, however each individual assessments may only be submitted once. Resubmissions are not automatic and will only be approved at the descretion of the programme coordinator after consultation with the teacher.
All resubmissions must be completed and submitted no more than 7 days after your work has been assessed.
Please note an opportunity to repeat clinical placement is not guaranteed and will be at the discretion of the Clinical Coordinator/Program Manager.
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