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Level 4 Diploma in Health and Social Care Management

Evaluating communication systems and practices

HSC403 · Communication in the Caring Professions — Week 5 of 16

CourseHSC403
Week5 of 16
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This week’s topics

Evaluating communication systems and practices

  1. Electronic health records versus paper-based records
  2. Handover procedures in residential and community care
  3. Audit tools for communication efficacy
  4. Benchmarking against care quality standards
  5. Residential Care Worker - Using Technology to support Person Centred Care
  6. About the Care Quality Commission and what we do

What you will be able to do

  • 2.1 Evaluate communication systems and practices used in different settings.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: evaluate communication systems and practices used in different settings.

Study materials

Videos

  • Residential Care Worker - Using Technology to support Person Centred Care · YouTube · Digitising Social Care · 3 min · for registered students
  • About the Care Quality Commission and what we do · YouTube · Care Quality Commission · 3 min · for registered students
  • How to give a SBAR Handover | Clinical Skills Series · YouTube · Nurse Zara · 8 min · for registered students
  • About us: Who we are and what we do · YouTube · Care Quality Commission · 5 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • CQC: Assessment framework (quality statements) · Reading · Other, guidance · for registered students
  • Health and social care integration: joining up care for people, places and populations (2022) · Reading · GOV.UK, report · for registered students
  • People's experience in adult social care services (NICE guideline NG86, 2018) · Reading · Nice, guidance · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Methods of communication in care environments
  • Week 2: Overcoming barriers to communication
  • Week 3: Interpersonal communication techniques
  • Week 4: Impact of communication failure in care management
  • Week 5: Evaluating communication systems and practices
  • Week 6: Enhancing organisational communication systems
  • Week 7: Communication systems in multi-agency working
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Comparative analysis of collaborative communication tools
  • Week 10: Optimising partnership communication systems
  • Week 11: Information governance and ethical practice
  • Week 12: Applying Communication in the Caring Professions in practic…
  • 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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