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Becoming a Domiciliary Care Support Worker

Becoming a Domiciliary Care Support Worker

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Becoming a Domiciliary Care Support Worker

This free online homecare training course explains how to safely support the infirm with their daily household tasks.

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In this free course, you will learn how to:

  • Recall who provides and receives domiciliary care support
  • List the core elements that are required to manage health and safety in the home
  • Describe the factors to consider when identifying individuals who are at particular risk
  • Outline how to carry out a RIDDOR report of an accident
  • Distinguish between people ‘infected’ or ‘colonised’ with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
  • Discuss how MRSA and blood-borne viruses are spread and how to practice good hand hygiene
  • Analyse how the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) work and how it is used
  • Outline the six simple physiological parameters that form the basis of the scoring system ‘NEWS’
  • Indicate how to perform CPR
  • Outline the seven Caldicott Principles
  • Summarise how to communicate effectively

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