Course Title: Follow safe work practices for direct client care

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2021

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: Rosemarie Russell

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 7478

Course Contact Email: rosemarie.russell@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Norma Salvador

Educator

norma.salvador@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

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 person, 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, insprections and consultative activities

4.3 Contribute to the development and implementations 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 fatigure, 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.


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:

Online Lectures – introduce you to the key concepts within the course

Online activities in canvas

Practical Tasks – Face to face lab practical assessments

 


Teaching Schedule

      Week

         Topic

Learning activities

Assessment task

Week 1

Part A: Creating a safe workplace

Part B: Legal requirements

Sourcing activity

 

Week 2

Emergencies in workplace and safety

Managing stress and fatigue

 

 

Self -directed learning

Hazard risk assessment

 

Hazard pro game

Safe manual handling

Lifting machines

Reporting a hazard

 

Week 3

Practical lab 1

Risk and hazard management in clinical lab setting

 

 

Week 4

Practical lab 2

Simulated workplace emergency and WHS meeting

 

Assessment task 2

Practical assessment task - Case study

Week 5

Practical lab 3

Manual Handling techniques practice

Practical lab 3 Assessment

Sling hoist transfer

 

 

Assessment task 1

Knowledge assessment (written assessment)

Assessment task 3

Practical assessment task – Sling hoist transfer

Week 6

Practical lab 3

Resit

 

Assessment task 3

 Resit


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts


References


Other Resources

Computer, Canvas access, Collaborate Ultra, Library resources


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 assessment tasks to demonstrate competence.


Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task 1 Knowledge assessment

This assessment task allows you to demonstrate your knowledge on participating in safe work practices to ensure their own health and safety, and that of others in work environments that involve caring directly for clients.

 

Assessment Task 2

This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate your ability to conduct and document workplace risk assessments and participate in a work health and safety meetings.

 

Assessment Task 3 

This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate your ability to safely transfer a patient using a lifting hoist.


Assessment Matrix

Other Information

You must be competent in all elements to successfully complete the course.

You are permitted to have a maximum of 2 resubmissions for this course. However each individual assessment may only be resubmitted once.

All resubmissions must be completed and submitted no more than 7 days after your work has been assessed.

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