Term Archives

  1. Module 6: Moving and Handling

    The realities of applying care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment to moving and handling can be challenging. The manual handling, work equipment, and lifting operations and equipment required.
  2. Module 5: Accidents and Illness Part 2

    There are three main fall classifications: accidental, when someone is on a window ledge, leaning outside, if the ledge or railing is too short, it acts as a fulcrum to help them descend. Falls are rising owing to cognitive impairment.
  3. Module 4: Accidents and Illness Part 1

    We classified the various mishaps and events that might pose a threat in care settings in modules four and five. This topic suggests establishing rigorous risk assessments to reduce hazards. These evaluations should identify all potential dangers and apply strategies to reduce accident risk.
  4. Module 3: Systems

    This webinar will discuss the mechanisms needed to provide best care for all stakeholders. Our conversation will begin with care planning. A care plan is a comprehensive plan created with the resident to meet their health and social needs.
  5. Module 2: Employee Responsibilities

    Care workers have several tasks and responsibilities, which this subject will cover. Let's examine employer duties first. The employer has legal duties. These duties should fall to employers, managers, or line managers. The size of an organization matters.
  6. Module 1: Introduction

    Module one covers laws, rules, and procedures, as well as the many tasks of key care workers. However, fundamental notions must be addressed first. Throughout this course, "resident" has been used to refer to care recipients.
  7. Brief Description of Health and Safety in Care Setting

    The course titled "Health and Safety in a Care Setting" is a comprehensive training program that prioritizes the safety and well-being of persons in a care setting.
  8. Module 7: The Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool

    This module covers the malnutrition universal screening tool also known as MUST. MUST is a five step screening tool to identify adults who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. It also contains an overview of how to develop a care plan and why we use a screening tool?
  9. Module 6: Malnutrition and Over nutrition

    This module covers the subjects of malnutrition and over nutrition. Malnutrition is defined as a state of nutrition in which a lack of protein energy and nutrients causes measurable adverse effects on tissue and or body form, composition, function or clinical outcome.
  10. Module 5: Through-life nutrition

    This module covers through life nutrition. The nutrition we need at various stages of our lives starting with food for young children right through to nutrition for the elderly. We will start with food for young children.