Care Certificate
Course Content
- Introduction to the Care Certificate Course
- Standard 1 - Understand Your Role
- Standard 2 - Your Personal Development
- Your Personal Development Standard Introduction
- Your personal development in working in the care sector
- Developing your knowledge, skills and understanding
- Learning and development
- Importance of Feedback
- Supervision, appraisal and objectives
- The Care Certificate and continuing your Learning
- The Use Of Digital Skills
- Standard 3 - Duty of Care
- Introduction to the Duty of Care Standard
- Addressing dilemmas within your duty of care
- Duty of care
- Recognising and handling comments, complaints and incidents
- Managing conflict and difficult situations
- How to deal with comments and complaints
- Supporting independence
- Incidents, Errors and Near Misses
- What is Duty of Candour?
- Why is Duty of Candour Important?
- Standard 4 - Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Human Rights
- Introduction to the standard on Equality and Diversity
- About equality and diversity
- The purpose of the Equality Act 2010
- Types of discrimination
- Protected characteristics
- Explaining equal opportunities
- Diversity
- Inclusion
- Prejudice
- Diversity and discrimination
- What to do if you suffer from discrimination
- The Code of Conduct
- Reducing the Likelihood of Discrimination in Care
- Information, advice and support
- Standard 5 - Working in a Person Centred Way
- Introduction to working in a person-centred way
- Working in partnership with others
- Record keeping in care
- The Care Plan
- The importance of finding out the history, preferences, wishes and needs of the individual
- Minimising environmental factors that may cause discomfort or distress
- Person centred values in practice
- Supporting individuals to minimise pain or discomfort
- Communication and Person Centred Care
- Working to promote person centred values
- Supporting individuals to plan for their future wellbeing and fulfilment, including end-of-life care
- Encouraging Person Centred Care
- Mental health conditions
- Understanding the Mental Capacity Act
- How Mental Capacity is Assessed
- What is mental capacity
- Importance of significant relationships when working in a person-centred way
- Standard 6 - Communication
- Introduction to the Communication Standard
- Effective communication in the work setting
- Language and other needs in communication
- Verbal and non-verbal communication skills
- Communication
- Identifying A Complaint
- Dealing with aggression
- Defusing potentially dangerous situations
- Recognising danger signs
- Confidentiality in Care
- How Behaviour may be Communication
- Assistive technologies and digital communications
- Standard 7 - Privacy and Dignity
- Standard 8 - Fluids and Nutrition
- Introduction to the Fluids and Nutrition Standard
- Food Safety for High-Risk Groups
- Cross-contamination direct and indirect
- Preventing cross-contamination
- Understanding and Addressing Malnutrition in Care
- Food, Nutrition and a Balanced Diet
- Hydration In the Elderly
- Hydration In the Elderly
- Fluids and Hydration
- Meeting the Nutritional Needs of Older Adults
- Understanding Malnutrition: Undernutrition and Overnutrition
- Diets for people with dementia
- Standard 9 - Awareness of Mental Health and Dementia
- Introduction to the Awareness of mental health and dementia standard
- What is Dementia?
- Classifications of Dementia
- Early diagnosis of Dementia and reporting
- Understanding the Risk Factors for Dementia
- Helping people with Dementia
- Practical Tips for Supporting a Person with Dementia
- Looking After Yourself When Caring for Someone with Dementia
- Diet, meals and Dementia
- A Healthy Body
- Communication and Dementia
- The safeguarding vulnerable groups act 2006
- The Human Rights Act 1998
- Discriminatory Abuse and the Equality Act
- Finding Support When Caring for Someone with Dementia
- Mental Health definition and terminology
- Types of mental ill health
- Early signs and symptoms of mental ill health
- Who can be affected and what are the common triggers
- Offering support
- Supporting someone back to work
- How important is confidentiality
- What is signposting
- Signposting examples
- Standard 10 - Safeguarding Adults
- Adult Safeguarding Standard Introduction
- What is SOVA?
- CQC or Care Quality Commission
- Protection from Harassment Act 1997
- The Sexual Offences Act 2003
- The Mental Capacity Act 2005
- The Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards principles
- Facts And Information About Abuse
- Who Is A Vulnerable Adult?
- Vulnerable adults and the risk of harm
- Abuse and its Indicators
- Physical Abuse
- Psychological Abuse
- Sexual Abuse
- Financial Abuse
- Neglect Self Neglect and The Act Of Omission
- Organisational abuse and Discriminatory Abuse
- Consent
- Disclosure
- The importance of individualised person-centred care to ensure an individuals safety
- Responding to suspected or disclosed abuse
- Managing risk and Multi-agency safeguarding of adults
- Reporting abuse
- Whistleblowing
- How to Whistleblow
- Serious case reviews and sources of advice and information
- Restrictive Practice
- Unconscious Bias
- Standard 11 - Safeguarding Children
- Child Protection standard introduction
- Legislation relating to Safeguarding Children
- The Acts and Safeguarding Children
- Serious Organised Crime and police Act 2005
- What is Child Abuse?
- Emotional abuse
- Physical abuse
- Sexual abuse
- Other types of child abuse
- Every Child Matters
- The rights of a child
- Neglect and the act of omission
- Radicalisation
- Working with others
- Key supporting information
- What children want from Professionals
- Protecting yourself against allegations
- Reporting child abuse
- Scottish Legislation in Care
- The Key Role of KCSIE in Child Protection in the UK
- Standard 12 - Basic Life Support
- Introduction to Basic Life Support standard
- Fears of First Aid
- Asking permission and consent to help
- Calling the Emergency Services
- Chain of Survival
- DRcABCDE approach
- Initial Assessment and Recovery Position
- Using gloves
- Adult CPR Introduction
- Adult CPR
- CPR Hand Over
- Compressions Only CPR
- Child CPR
- Infant CPR
- Drowning
- AED Introduction
- Types of AED Units
- Adult Choking
- Choking in children
- Infant Choking
- Standard 13 - Health and Safety
- Introduction to the Health and Safety standard
- Health and safety tasks that should only be carried out after special training
- Importance of Health and Safety
- What causes accidents?
- When an Accident Happens
- Responding to Accidents and Sudden Illness
- Health and Safety Law
- Manual handling Employee and Employer responsibility
- Workplace and personal Safety
- The Accident Triangle
- Why prevention is important and what can be done
- The 5 stages of the Risk Assessment
- What is a hazard
- Personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Working Securely and Preventing Crime
- Handling Hazardous Substances in Care
- COSHH Regulations
- Employee Duties Under COSHH
- The Fire Triangle
- Calling the Fire Service
- Evacuating in an Emergency
- Care Home Evacuation
- Good Housekeeping
- Electrical Hazards
- Managing stress
- Medication and healthcare activities and tasks
- Why Manual Handling is Important
- Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
- How and Why We Lift Correctly
- Before we start moving and assisting people
- LOLER and PUWER Regulations
- Other Relevant Acts
- Ability Test
- Assisted standing from a bed or seat
- Assisted Sit to Stand
- Fall Prevention
- Assisting Fallen Person
- Walking Frames
- Wheelchairs
- Awareness in the workplace
- Wellbeing and resilience
- Wellness action plan
- Standard 14 - Handling Information
- Handling information standard Introduction
- Handling information in health and social care
- GDPR Compliance
- Data Subject and Personal Data under GDPR
- The Information Commissioner's Office
- The Freedom of Information Act 2000
- Who holds personal information
- Public authorities and Freedom Of Information
- Record Keeping, Management and Responsibilities
- Raising Concerns about Information
- Privacy Principles under GDPR
- Does GDPR apply to me
- The right to be informed
- Lawful, Fairness and Transparency
- Purpose limitation
- Data minimisation
- Data accuracy
- Storage limitation
- Data Security
- Accountability
- Standard 15 - Infection Prevention and Control
- Introduction to Infection Control Standard
- What are Blood Borne Pathogens?
- Infection Control Legislation
- Who is at risk?
- Types of Infections
- Skin Diseases
- The Chain of infection
- First Aid and Infection Control
- Contaminated objects
- Contaminated Linen
- Cross Infection
- How to Reduce Your Risk
- Surface Cleaning
- Hazardous products and sharps disposal
- Hand hygiene policy
- Using gloves
- Hand Washing
- Disposable Aprons
- Waterless hand gels
- Protecting Vulnerable People
- Standard 16 - Awareness of Learning Disability and Autism
- Introduction to Awareness of Learning Disasbility and Autism
- Facts about disabilities
- Definition of Disabilities
- Legislation
- Invisible Disability
- Visual Impairment
- Hearing Impairment
- Learning disabilities
- Physical Disability
- Speech or language Impairment/disorders
- ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)
- Disability Awareness overview
- The Social Model of Disability
- Learning Disabilities
- What is Autism?
- History of autism
- Is Autism is a disability?
- Facts about Autism
- Autism studies
- Autism - explaining the condition
- What causes Autism
- Diagnosing autism
- Treating autism
- Triad of Impairment
- Sensory Sensitivities and sensory processing
- Common autistic behaviours
- Behaviour that challenges
- Routines
- The stigma of Autism
- Summary and what's next
Types of AED Units
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Now, there are lots of different types of AEDs. This is just some units here. There are a lot more than this and there is more and more new units coming on the market every single month. There is something different happening with units. No matter what brand AED unit you have, they all work pretty much the same. They have an on-off button and they have a shock button. And that is the basic life of dealing with these. Now, the only version really would be is what type they are. So there is three sort of core types and there is an extra features. So we are going to have a look at what some of these are. So the first one is, is it automatic or is it semi-automatic? The majority of AED units out there are semi-automatic. And semi-automatic means that you put the AED on, it analyses the heart, it says shock advised and you must push the shock button yourself. It will not deliver the shock unless you push the button. Now, people like this because it gives you time to make sure that no one else is touching the patient and you can hit the button and shock delivered and it just carries on. Now the automatic ones will work slightly different and say shock advised and it will say shocking in three, two, one, and it will automatically deliver the shock. We have seen just at ProTrainings is just a slight increase in the number of fully automatic AEDs we are selling compared with what we used to. I do not know if that is a general trend, but some of the problems have been with AED units is that people have been scared to push the button. So if it is an automatic one, it does it automatically for them. They do not need to think the shock has been delivered themselves. Remember, an AED will not deliver a shock unless the shock is required. You push the button, if it says no shock advice, it will not deliver the shock. Other changes or differences between the AED units, are a lot of AED units now are coming with a lot more technology built before them. So you know, it is things it might be in how they are built. The IP rating, you know, the iPad range, for example, has IP ratings that go very high if you want to use them in very wet environments like the marine environment, there is a unit for that. So it is really how well they are used in different environments, whether it is moisture or dust. So when you are selecting an AED unit, think about where you are going to be using it and what you need if it is going to be inside in an office, you know, behind a reception area and it is very, very secure. No one is going to knock it, it is not going to get dropped, it is not going to have dust, it is not going to have moisture. Then your decision could be slightly different with them. The other thing that AED units can do is CPR help. Now, CPR help is a system where the AED would tell you what to do. Now, this has got some advantages because you have never used an AED unit, it will tell you what to do. However, the current guidelines are all saying that you must call emergency services and they will help you. So the EMS will telling you on the phone, on speakerphone, exactly what you need to do with the unit. Even if you do not have help, it will tell you to stand clear. It will tell you when it is shocking, when shock advised, and it will tell you continue CPR and it will give you probably a metronome to keep in pace, that you get the right compression rate. The CPR help will tell you if you are not pushing a deep enough or if you are pushing too slow or too fast. Now, the downside of some of the CPR help is if you are trained, you know what you are doing and you are already putting the pants on and it is telling you at that point to call for help, for example, so you can get much further ahead of it. So whether you need that or not. I have got 180 unit with it. One without a choice, I would not have it because I just do not need it. So it is there. Some units do offer it, but, you know, I feel that every AED unit tells you all you need to know with the EMS help, it is all there. The other feature that AED is coming more of is its connectivity. So an AED unit may well have a 4G SIM card in it. So the idea is the AED unit can tell you when it is got a problem or when it is been activated. Some have GPS in them as well. So you will know that where the unit exactly is, because you would log the information that the pads need changing or the batteries need changing or there is a fault with the unit. All these types of things can be checked and you can get simple alerts or go on an app or a dashboard and see the sort of status of your unit. So, yeah, there is lots and lots of different types of AED on the market. There is a wide range of prices with them. Not necessary, the most expensive one is the best one. You know, they are very, very similar in how they work. But other things you can look at could be the cost of running the unit, how long before you are going to need to change the pads and the battery, because these are ongoing costs you are going to have. Some units have a shorter battery and pad life than other units. So you might find that you might pay a little bit more for an AED unit, but its life is a lot more. Or in fact, some of them, even the lower priced units have some very, very good pad life on them. So if you need help on that, you can always contact us. We can give you help on choosing AED units and what we think is best for your environment. Generally speaking, have a look at an AED unit, open it up, check to see what it does. If in doubt, check the manufacturer's instructions or websites or in the download of this course, we put some information on different brands of AED units as well and links to different websites. But if in doubt you need any help, contact us.
Diverse Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) and Their Advanced Capabilities
Overview of AED Types
Despite numerous brands, AEDs can be broadly categorized into three main types, each with unique functionalities.
Semi-Automatic AEDs
Example: These AEDs require a manual shock delivery, indicated by a flashing button.
Automatic AEDs
Example: These AEDs automatically deliver a shock after a countdown, eliminating the need for a manual button press.
CPR-Assist AEDs
Example: These AEDs offer real-time feedback on CPR quality, aiding in effective resuscitation.
Gateway Unit: Enhancing AED Functionality
A unique addition to AEDs is the gateway unit, which enhances the unit's functionality with Wi-Fi connectivity.
Benefits of Gateway Units
- Allows remote monitoring of AED status.
- Provides alerts for pad replacement and unit checks.
- Facilitates easy data transfer and management.
Choosing the Right AED
Selecting an AED depends on your specific needs. Consider whether automatic or manual shock delivery is preferable and if CPR feedback would be beneficial.
Conclusion
Understanding the different types of AEDs and their advanced features is crucial for effective emergency response and saving lives.