17 Styles Scenario Happy Home Care Is A Non Profit Organisation Providing The Highest Quality Of Care And Support For Pe 1 (181.02 KiB) Viewed 38 times
17 Styles SCENARIO Happy Home Care is a non-profit organisation providing the highest quality of care and support for people with disability, seniors and their carers living in its community. Happy Home Care has accommodation houses and can provide support to client living in their own homes in local communities. Most of these communities are in remote towns and people from these communities go distances when they need to access health services. You are newly appointed as a team leader in Happy Home Care and have been assigned to monitor support workers sent to local communities. You have had a case of a support worker inflicted with tuberculosis. Different diseases and illnesses pester remote areas all year round. This is partly due to their lack of access to health services. Although the outbreaks are affected by the seasons, you want your support workers well-equipped and protected all the time. You would not want to risk having another support worker be infected again. You saw a need to write a policy on risk management of infection control for support workers in health service delivery in remote areas. You sought new and relevant information to support this. One of the new support workers, Eliza, reports that two clients in the community where she is assigned were diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB). Some other clients in that community catch illnesses but are unable see health specialists. The community where she works also have homeless animals around. Eliza is still under training. New support workers are placed in communities requiring health service delivery. Before Eliza and the other workers can return to the community, they must undergo training regarding infectious diseases. To address this, you are to write a new policy for risk management of infection control for support workers in health service delivery in remote areas. 17
This task requires you to develop a WHS policy and procedure relevant to the case study which must be communicated to the organisation. In the template provided, write a policy that must be included in the staff handbook regarding the situation. Your policy must specifically cover the following: a. Roles and responsibilities of different workers on infection control. b. Procedures for ongoing hazard identification and risk assessment. c. Risk controls and measures to be implemented (must be specific to the scenario). d. Reporting and documentation procedures, including a policy in protecting client information. e. Consequences if the policy has been breached. To guide you in drafting the policy, research on relevant and current legislation, practice standards, or source documentation (e.g. workplace handbooks, policies and procedures similar to this incident), and include any legal information in the template. Here are some samples of infection control policies you can refer to for guidance: MHCC infection control policy University of Sydney Infection Control Procedures Department of Education and Child Development (SA) Infection Control Procedure Guidance: For the purpose this assessment, use the current date.
Happy Home Care Risk Management of Infection Control for Community Workers in Health Service Delivery in Remote Areas Policy: Policy Policy Developer: Version no. 1 Date: 1st july, 2022 Policy context Indicate the specific pieces of legislation and ethical considerations relevant to your policy. Make sure that all legal and ethical requirements cited here are current. Add additional text fields as necessary. Legal/ethical consideration 1 Legal/ethical consideration 2 Purpose: State the purpose of the policy. You may state the desired outcome/s for this policy, the reasons for creating this policy and the advantages it may bring to the organisation.
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Procedures: Guidance: Include legal information as necessary and who is responsible for what and when. Next Review Date:
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