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Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Health and Social Care

Infection control practices and personal hygiene

HSC304 · Health, Safety and Wellbeing in Health and Social Care Settings — Week 6 of 16

CourseHSC304
Week6 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Infection control practices and personal hygiene

  1. Standard infection prevention precautions
  2. Recommended hand-washing technique
  3. Bare-below-the-elbows and uniform standards
  4. Managing personal illness and infection risks
  5. Proper Hand Washing Techniques
  6. Environmental Hygiene: Best Practices to Use When Cleaning and Disinfecting Patient Rooms

What you will be able to do

  • 2.3 Explain own role in reducing the spread of infection.
  • 2.4 Describe the recommended method for hand-washing.
  • 2.5 Explain how to ensure that own health and hygiene do not pose a risk to an individual or to others at work.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain own role in reducing the spread of infection.

Study materials

Videos

  • Proper Hand Washing Techniques · YouTube · Wagley Agency · 3 min · for registered students
  • Environmental Hygiene: Best Practices to Use When Cleaning and Disinfecting Patient Rooms · YouTube · Oregon Patient Safety Commission (OPSC) · 9 min · for registered students
  • Hand Hygiene Australia - 5 Moments For Hand Hygiene · YouTube · handhygieneaustralia · 5 min · for registered students
  • Episode 21: Do We Really Have to Talk About Hand Hygiene? Again? Yes! · YouTube · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) · 6 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Infection prevention and control: resource for adult social care (UKHSA/DHSC) · Reading · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Health and safety legislation and workplace policies
  • Week 2: Workplace responsibilities and mandatory training requireme…
  • Week 3: Principles of safe moving and handling
  • Week 4: Safe handling of hazardous substances
  • Week 5: The chain of infection and transmission pathways
  • Week 6: Infection control practices and personal hygiene
  • Week 7: Safeguarding definitions and primary abuse types
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Further categories of abuse and vulnerability factors
  • Week 10: Responding to concerns, suspicions, and disclosures
  • Week 11: Multi-agency safeguarding frameworks
  • Week 12: Applying Health, Safety and Wellbeing in Health and Social …
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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