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BASIC FIRE SAFETY AWARENESS FOR CARE HOMES
Basic Fire Safety Awareness for Care Homes Course
Current legislation, The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, applies to all workplaces, including Care Homes regardless of the number of employees and requires employers to provide adequate training in fire aw ..
INFECTION CONTROL
Infection prevention and control measures aim to ensure the protection of those who might be vulnerable to acquiring an infection. Ok, but why is this important?
Well every year at least 300,000 people develop a Health Care Associated Infection. This has a huge impact ..
SAFE HANDLING OF MEDICINES
This Introduction to the Safe Handling of Medicines E-Learning course will start by explaining the key terminology used when handling medicines. The Online Introduction to the Safe Handling of Medicines Course then goes into detail about the roles of the people involved, some ..
DEMENTIA AWARENESS
Dementia is used to describe the symptoms that occur when the brain is affected by specific diseases and conditions. Dementia is a chronic progressive problem of cognition – which is failure of the brain’s functions. IT affects people at different stages of life, i ..
MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS
People often equate the words mental health with mental illness and there are many definitions of what mental health actually is. Mental health issues can happen to anyone despite social background, intelligence, sex or other factors.
This Online Mental Health Awarenes ..
MENTAL CAPACITY ACT & DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY SAFEGUARDS
This Online Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation Of Liberty Safeguards course describes in detail the many facets and procedures of the Mental Capacity Act. This includes who the act affects, when it applies, how to assess capacity and the procedures that can be put in place in ..
NUTRITION & HYDRATION
If you are part of a team responsible for people’s nutrition and hydration, it’s important that you understand the terms that are being used, the nutritional requirements of the service users and the possible consequences of getting it wrong.
This Online Nu ..
DUTY OF CARE
A duty of care is the requirement that all health and social care professionals, and organisations providing health and care services, must put the interests of service users first.
Working in the health and social care sector involves working with lots of different pe ..
PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNICATION
When working in the adult social care sector, communicating is essential to develop your understanding of a service user’s needs, so you can provide them with the support they require.
If the information exchanged is inaccurate or misleading, mistakes can be made ..
END OF LIFE CARE
End of life care should be several things, compassionate, cost-effective, holistic and effective. There are usually a number of people involved in the care of people at the end of their life and it can be a difficult process to be part of.
This Online End of Life Care ..