Care Certificate
Course Content
- Introduction to the Care Certificate Course
- Standard 1 - Understand Your Role
- Standard 2 - Your Personal Development
- Standard 3 - Duty of Care
- Introduction to the Duty of Care Standard
- Addressing dilemmas within your duty of care
- Duty of care
- Recognising and handling comments, complaints and incidents
- Managing conflict and difficult situations
- How to deal with comments and complaints
- Supporting independence
- Incidents, Errors and Near Misses
- Standard 4 - Equality and Diversity
- Introduction to the standard on Equality and Diversity
- About equality and diversity
- The purpose of the Equality Act 2010
- Types of discrimination
- Protected characteristics
- Explaining equal opportunities
- Diversity
- Inclusion
- Prejudice
- Diversity and discrimination
- What to do if you suffer from discrimination
- The Code of Conduct
- Reducing the Likelihood of Discrimination in Care
- Information, advice and support
- Standard 5 - Working in a Person Centred Way
- Introduction to working in a person-centred way
- Working in partnership with others
- Record keeping in care
- The Care Plan
- The importance of finding out the history, preferences, wishes and needs of the individual
- Minimising environmental factors that may cause discomfort or distress
- Person centred values in practice
- Supporting individuals to minimise pain or discomfort
- Communication and Person Centred Care
- Working to promote person centred values
- Supporting individuals to plan for their future wellbeing and fulfilment, including end-of-life care
- Encouraging Person Centred Care
- Standard 6 - Communication
- Introduction to the Communication Standard
- Effective communication in the work setting
- Language and other needs in communication
- Verbal and non-verbal communication skills
- Communication
- Identifying A Complaint
- Dealing with aggression
- Defusing potentially dangerous situations
- Recognising danger signs
- Confidentiality in Care
- Standard 7 - Privacy and Dignity
- Standard 8 - Fluids and Nutrition
- Introduction to the Fluids and Nutrition Standard
- High risk groups of people for food safety
- Cross-contamination direct and indirect
- Preventing cross-contamination
- The importance of nutrition
- Guidelines for a healthy diet
- Hydration In the Elderly
- Hydration In the Elderly
- Fluids and Hydration
- Nutrition and the elderly
- Malnutrition
- Diets for people with dementia
- Standard 9 - Awareness of mental health, dementia and learning disabilities
- Introduction to standard on mental health, dementia and learning disabilities
- What is Dementia?
- Classifications of Dementia
- Early diagnosis of Dementia and reporting
- Risk factors affecting the chance of developing dementia
- Helping people with Dementia
- Things that can help people with Dementia
- Things that help the carer
- Diet, meals and Dementia
- A Healthy Body
- The Social Model of Disability
- Communication and Dementia
- The safeguarding vulnerable groups act 2006
- The Human Rights Act 1998
- Discriminatory Abuse and the Equality Act
- Mental health conditions
- MCA Assessment Criteria
- MCA Assessment
- What is mental capacity
- Where to get help
- Learning Disabilities
- Standard 10 - Safeguarding Adults
- Adult Safeguarding Standard Introduction
- What is SOVA?
- CQC or Care Quality Commission
- Protection from Harassment Act 1997
- The Sexual Offences Act 2003
- The Mental Capacity Act 2005
- The Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards principles
- Facts And Information About Abuse
- Who Is A Vulnerable Adult?
- Vulnerable adults and the risk of harm
- Abuse and its Indicators
- Physical Abuse
- Psychological Abuse
- Sexual Abuse
- Financial Abuse
- Neglect Self Neglect and The Act Of Omission
- Organisational abuse and Discriminatory Abuse
- Consent
- Disclosure
- The importance of individualised person-centred care to ensure an individuals safety
- Responding to suspected or disclosed abuse
- Managing risk and Multi-agency safeguarding of adults
- Reporting abuse
- Whistleblowing
- How to Whistleblow
- Serious case reviews and sources of advice and information
- Standard 11 - Safeguarding Children
- Child Protection standard introduction
- Legislation relating to Safeguarding Children
- The Acts and Safeguarding Children
- Serious Organised Crime and police Act 2005
- What is Child Abuse?
- Emotional abuse
- Physical abuse
- Sexual abuse
- Other types of child abuse
- Every Child Matters
- The rights of a child
- Neglect and the act of omission
- Radicalisation
- Working with others
- Key supporting information
- What children want from Professionals
- Protecting yourself against allegations
- Reporting child abuse
- Scottish Legislation in Care
- The Key Role of KCSIE in Child Protection in the UK
- Standard 12 - Basic Life Support
- Introduction to Basic Life Support standard
- Fears of First Aid
- Asking permission and consent to help
- Calling the Emergency Services
- Chain of Survival
- DR ABC and the ABCD'S
- Initial Assessment and Recovery Position
- Using gloves
- Adult CPR Introduction
- Adult CPR
- CPR Hand Over
- Compressions Only CPR
- Child CPR
- Child CPR Breakdown
- Infant CPR
- Drowning
- AED Introduction
- Types of AED Units
- Adult Choking
- Choking in children
- Infant Choking
- Standard 13 - Health and Safety
- Introduction to the Health and Safety standard
- Health and safety tasks that should only be carried out after special training
- Importance of Health and Safety
- What causes accidents?
- When an Accident Happens
- Accidents and sudden illness
- Health and Safety Law
- Manual handling Employee and Employer responsibility
- Workplace and personal Safety
- The Accident Triangle
- Why prevention is important and what can be done
- The 5 stages of the Risk Assessment
- What is a hazard
- Personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Working safely and securely
- Hazardous substances in your workplace
- COSHH Regulations
- Employee Duties Under COSHH
- The Fire Triangle
- Calling the Fire Service
- Evacuating in an Emergency
- Care Home Evacuation
- Good Housekeeping
- Electrical Hazards
- Managing stress
- Medication and healthcare activities and tasks
- Why Manual Handling is Important
- Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
- How and Why We Lift Correctly
- Before we start moving and assisting people
- LOLER and PUWER Regulations
- Other Relevant Acts
- Ability Test
- Assisted standing from a bed or seat
- Assisted Sit to Stand
- Fall Prevention
- Assisting Fallen Person
- Walking Frames
- Wheelchairs
- Standard 14 - Handling Information
- Handling information standard Introduction
- Handling information in health and social care
- GDPR Compliance
- Data Subject and Personal Data under GDPR
- The Information Commissioner's Office
- The Freedom of Information Act 2000
- Who holds personal information
- Public authorities and Freedom Of Information
- Record Keeping, Management and Responsibilities
- Reporting concerns
- Privacy Principles under GDPR
- Does GDPR apply to me
- The right to be informed
- Lawful, Fairness and Transparency
- Purpose limitation
- Data minimisation
- Data accuracy
- Storage limitation
- Data Security
- Accountability
- Standard 15 - Infection Prevention and Control
- Introduction to Infection Control
- What are Blood Borne Pathogens?
- Infection Control Legislation
- Who is at risk?
- Types of Infections
- Skin Diseases
- The Chain of infection
- First Aid and Infection Control
- Contaminated objects
- Contaminated Linen
- Cross Infection
- Example of indirect cross contamination
- How to Reduce Your Risk
- Surface Cleaning
- Hazardous products and sharps disposal
- Hand hygiene policy
- Using gloves
- Hand Washing
- Disposable Aprons
- Waterless hand gels
- Protecting Vulnerable People
- Summary and what's next
Hazardous products and sharps disposal
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What we are going to do now is look at hazardous waste disposal. Now, mainly in this section, we are going to be looking at sharps disposal. Now, sharps are a particular hazard because if you are looking at something like a hypodermic needle, it's got a core inside which can hold blood and bodily fluids. So it's really important we dispose of them carefully, because what we don't want to be doing is leaving anything lying around, so it can get... Spike someone else. And then that would effectively be injecting someone else's blood into someone. Now, when you are disposing of stuff, you need to be really, really careful because first off, if you are having sharps, you cannot put them into plastic bags or bin bags or anything like that, even if they are hazardous waste bags. Because they are just going to go straight through the side. So sharps we would always dispose of off in a solid plastic container because this container can then be disposed of, depending on what type of hazardous waste is in here they are usually disposed of by incineration.Now, plastic bags are good for other things, and they come in different colours and designs, depending on what the product is you are going to be disposing of. So if it's dressings or tissues and things like that, it will be different maybe from other types of waste. What we have done in the download area of the course is added a chart that tells you all of the different colours, what they are used for and what sort of waste goes inside them. So we look now just back on the sharps. So this is just a typical sharps box here. What you got here is there is a line, which is the maximum fill length. You don't want to be going over that because you want to make sure that you can get everything in there. And also with these sharps boxes, never be tempted to push down into them or shake them to try and get more stuff in them.Once it gets to that line, they need to be sealed off and you need to get a new one. There is a label on the front, which you can identify where the sharps bin is. So for example, if it's in a hospital setting, you might write the hospital and the ward on there. Also, the date that it was started and the date that it's finished. So you have got a maximum, a period of time there. So depending on the policies of where you are working, it may well be that all sharps bins are sealed off over a set length of time. So it's important to know when the bin was started. So all that data goes on there. And you can have a little initial or a person's name followed by the data which actually sealed up. Other things on here, information about the particular box, what it actually has inside it, what's allowed to be inside it.Now the designs of all these boxes are quite different. There are much larger ones and there are big ones and more like large buckets depending on what you are doing. So if you are doing work with a lot of needles, maybe taking blood, you are going to need larger containers than you would do if it's just occasional use. So this type of thing is a typical smaller unit, same with this one here. There are just different designs. If you are trying to dispose of syringes with needles attached to them, and you cannot remove the needle, you are going to need something a lot longer, which is where you have this type of box to put them in. In the tops, you have the hole where the product goes straight into. And also if you do need to uncap a needle, this is what this side is here.It's a very safe way of removing a needle. So it just drops into the box itself. To seal them, close the lid over and then just click it shut. And then obviously mark on it to say, it's being used. This type here is slightly different. This is really for a single-use type thing. If you got a complete syringe, you put it in there and it also works quite well for putting auto-injectors and things like that in. Because with an auto-injector, you still got a needle in it, although it's covered once it's been used, it is still potentially a risk. You could put one of those in here to dispose of that, close it off, and it works in the same way.Other ones here are just slightly different, with this in the lid, you have got a piece of plastic that just goes down when you actually put the item in and it closes off. It's just weighted, so it's always closed and it's only open when you pop it in to put the sharp in there. These are sort of some of the range, there are lots of different shapes and sizes. So if you are getting sharps boxes, always make sure that you are getting one's fit for purpose. They have got the right volume to hold in there. Are you holding complete syringes and needles or are you just getting disposing of the needles? But these box is built so good for any other application. So for example, glass vials or anything that is a potentially hazardous substance as a sharp, or if you are using dressings, things like that, you typically use the bags. And again, all of these things would be colour-coded.
Comprehensive Guide to Hazardous Waste and Sharps Disposal
This guide covers the essential aspects of safely disposing of hazardous waste, particularly focusing on the disposal of sharps in healthcare and other settings.
Overview of Hazardous Waste Disposal
Understanding the importance of proper disposal techniques for hazardous materials.
Sharps Disposal Protocols
Special precautions for disposing of sharps:
- Recognising the danger posed by items like hypodermic needles.
- Emphasising the need for careful disposal to prevent injury and infection.
Appropriate Disposal Containers
Choosing the right containers for different types of hazardous waste:
- Using solid plastic containers for sharps to prevent punctures.
- Understanding the varied requirements for different waste types, like tissues and dressings.
Understanding Sharps Bins
Details on using sharps disposal bins:
- Identifying the maximum fill line and adhering to it.
- Avoiding pressing down or shaking the contents to fit more in.
Labelling and Sealing Sharps Bins
Properly marking sharps bins for identification and safety:
- Labelling with location, start and finish dates, and responsible personnel.
- Sealing bins once they reach the fill line and marking them as used.
Variations in Sharps Bins
Understanding different types of sharps bins and their purposes:
- Selecting bins based on the volume and type of sharps being disposed of.
- Features of different bins like single-use designs and syringe accommodation.
Safe Disposal Practices
Key points for ensuring safety during disposal:
- Choosing bins that fit the disposal needs, whether for needles or complete syringes.
- Adhering to colour-coding systems for different types of waste.
By following these guidelines, you can ensure that hazardous waste and sharps are disposed of safely and effectively, minimising the risk of injury and contamination.