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Residential, Home and Community Aged Care Workbook
- 3rd Edition - July 15, 2022
- Authors: Carla Unicomb, Wendy Bell
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 4 3 8 0 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 8 9 2 7 - 7
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The Residential, Home and Community Aged Care Workbook is a companion resource to Long-Term Caring: Residential, Home and Community Aged Care by Scott and Webb. Together, they form a comprehensive teaching and learning package for the Certificate III Individual Support.
The Workbook covers core competencies and select elective competencies in a way that is easy to understand and follow. Students will learn to work effectively in aged care, follow safe work practices, support independence and wellbeing, and deal with specific issues such as infection control, abuse, dementia and palliative care
The Residential, Home and Community Aged Care Workbook is a companion resource to Long-Term Caring: Residential, Home and Community Aged Care by Scott and Webb. Together, they form a comprehensive teaching and learning package for the Certificate III Individual Support.
The Workbook covers core competencies and select elective competencies in a way that is easy to understand and follow. Students will learn to work effectively in aged care, follow safe work practices, support independence and wellbeing, and deal with specific issues such as infection control, abuse, dementia and palliative care
- Complete learning and teaching package: reference text, student workbook and comprehensive instructors’ resource pack
- Each chapter mapped to the Certificate III Individual Support
- Covers theory, written assessments and practical assessments – students can transfer theory to practice
- Up to date with latest care sector developments and terminology
- Written by professionals with many years of aged care experience
- Assessment mapping tool
- Written assessment with model answers
- Practical assessment with model answers
- Model answers to workbook activities
- PowerPoint slides
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- How to use this workbook
- About the Authors
- Contributor
- List of Illustrations
- 1. CHCAGE013: Work effectively in aged care
- Introduction
- 1. Structure and profile of the aged care sector
- 2. Best practice service delivery model
- 3. Aged care facilities
- 4. Other services: The multidisciplinary team
- 5. Duty of care
- 6. Informed consent
- 7. Attitudes to ageing
- 8. Attitudes and stereotypes
- 9. Social devaluation
- 10. Common challenges associated with ageing
- 11. Health needs
- 12. The nursing process
- 13. Observations
- 14. Person-centred support
- 15. Elder abuse
- 16. Restrictive practices
- 17. Monitoring restrictive practices
- 18. Human rights
- 19. Care recipients’ rights to make personal choices
- 20. The medical record
- 21. Reporting and recording
- 22. Privacy and confidentiality
- 23. Use of digital technology
- 24. Preventing falls
- 25. Risk management
- 2. HLTWHS002: Follow safe work practices for direct client care
- Introduction
- 1. Safety
- 2. Legislation
- 3. Due diligence
- 4. ‘Reasonably practicable’
- 5. Home hazard assessment
- 6. Preventing falls
- 7. Preventing poisoning
- 8. Preventing burns
- 9. Preventing suffocation
- 10. Preventing equipment-related accidents
- 11. Handling hazardous substances
- 12. Safety data sheets (SDS)
- 13. Fire safety
- 14. Evacuation
- 15. Workplace violence
- 16. Risk management
- 17. Manual handling and body mechanics
- 18. Back care
- 19. Infection prevention and control
- 20. Infection
- 21. Hand hygiene
- 22. Environmental control and contaminated waste
- 23. Spills management
- 24. Linen and laundry services
- 25. Personal health
- 26. Focusing on community care
- 27. Contributing to safe work practices in the workplace
- 28. Reflecting on your own safe work practices
- 29. Quality of life
- 3. CHCLEG001: Work legally and ethically
- Introduction
- 1. The law and the aged care sector
- 2. Negligence
- 3. Defamation
- 4. Assault and battery
- 5. Restrictive practices
- 6. Documentation and restrictive practices
- 7. Monitoring restrictive practices
- 8. Informed consent
- 9. Do not resuscitate
- 10. Duty of care
- 11. Vicarious liability
- 12. Abuse
- 13. Elder abuse
- 14. Confidentiality
- 15. Bullying and harassment
- 16. Sexual harassment
- 17. Ethics and the aged care sector
- 18. Guardianship and enduring power of attorney
- 19. Residents’ rights and responsibilities
- 20. Residents’ rights to make personal choices
- 21. Privacy and confidentiality
- 22. Disputes and grievances
- 23. Advance health directives
- 4. CHCDIV001: Work with diverse people
- Introduction
- 1. History of multiculturalism in Australia
- 2. Culture, race and ethnicity
- 3. Cultural awareness and cultural sensitivity
- 4. Cultural safety and the carer
- 5. Attitudes to ageing
- 6. Addressing the older person
- 7. Touching
- 8. Family attitudes
- 9. Language
- 10. Dress
- 11. Diet
- 12. Religion
- 13. Services available for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD)
- 14. Aboriginal and torres strait Islander culture
- 5. CHCCOM005: Communicate and work in health or community services
- Introduction
- 1. Communicating effectively with clients
- 2. Verbal communication
- 3. Written communication
- 4. Non-verbal communication
- 5. Communication methods
- 6. Communication barriers
- 7. Caring for the person
- 8. Needs
- 9. Culture and religion
- 10. Effects of illness and disability on communication
- 11. Residents and clients
- 12. Communication and changed behaviours
- 13. Family and friends
- 14. Documentation and continuous improvement
- 6a. CHCCCS041: Recognise healthy body systems
- Introduction
- 1. Cells, tissues and organs
- 2. Integumentary system
- 3. Musculoskeletal system
- 4. Nervous system
- 5. Circulatory system
- 6. Respiratory system
- 7. Digestive system
- 8. Urinary system
- 9. Reproductive system
- 10. Endocrine system
- 11. Immune system
- 6b. CHCCCS041: Recognise healthy body systems: health assessment
- Introduction
- 1. Physical examination
- 2. Vital signs
- 3. Where do you report vital signs?
- 4. Body temperature
- 5. Pulse
- 6. Stethoscope
- 7. Respiration
- 8. Blood pressure
- 7a. CHCAGE007: Recognise and report risks of falls
- Introduction
- 1. Definition of a fall
- 2. Identify potential risk of falls
- 3. The ageing process in relation to falls
- 4. Factors contributing to the risk of falls
- 5. Impact of falls on the person and their carer
- 6. Assessing the person’s normal gait and posture
- 7. Medical causes of falls and recognising signs
- 8. Communicate to promote respect and empowerment
- 9. Legal and ethical – duty of care, dignity of risk, human rights
- 10. Privacy, confidentiality and disclosure
- 11. Work, health and safety
- 12. Organisational policies and procedures
- 13. Report risk of falls – documentation and storage
- 14. Risk management
- 7b. CHCCCS031: Provide individualised support
- Introduction
- 1. Assisting with hygiene
- 2. Assisting with bowel evacuation and management
- 3. Assisting with urinary elimination and management
- 4. Assisting with wound care
- 5. Assisting with identifying and managing pain
- 6. Assisting with feeding and drinking
- 7. Assisting with exercise and activity
- 8. CHCCCCS040: Support independence and wellbeing
- Introduction
- 1. Service delivery models and standards
- 2. Attitudes, stereotypes and myths associated with ageing
- 3. Legal and ethical requirements
- 4. Nutrition and hydration
- 5. Diet
- 6. Changes to nutrition and hydration due to ageing
- 7. The Australian guide to healthy eating
- 8. The Australian guide to healthy eating for vegetarians and vegans
- 9. Recreational activities
- 10. fitness
- 11. Body work
- 12. Complementary therapies
- 13. Comfort, rest and sleep
- 14. Promoting sleep
- 15. Good health
- 16. Spiritual, cultural and sexual needs of the person
- 9. CHCAGE011: Provide support to people living with dementia
- Introduction
- 1. The brain
- 2. Confusion
- 3. Delirium
- 4. Dementia
- 5. Alzheimer’s disease
- 6. Care of the person with dementia
- 10. CHCPAL003: Deliver care services using a palliative approach
- Introduction
- 1. Loss and grief
- 2. Attitudes to death and dying
- 3. Stages of grief
- 4. Culture, religion and death rites
- 5. Palliative care
- 6. Palliative care of the individual
- 7. Psychological, social and spiritual comfort
- 8. Signs of death
- 9. When death occurs
- 10. Care of the body after death
- 11. Ethical principles for palliative care
- 11. HLTHPS006: Assist clients with medication
- Introduction
- 1. What are medications?
- 2. Generic brands of medications
- 3. Effects of medication on older people
- 4. Polypharmacy
- 5. Medication assistance
- 6. Supporting clients with administration of medication
- 7. Self-administration of medication
- 8. Legislation
- 9. Delegation
- 10. Infection control
- 11. Maintaining a medication record
- 12. Medication incident reporting
- 13. Electronic medication management system (EMMS)
- 14. Storing medications
- 15. Routes of administration of medications
- 16. Types of medications
- 17. Observing for changes in a client’s condition after medication intake
- 18. Assisting clients with their medications: Procedure
- 12. CHCCCS036: Support relationships with carers and families
- Introduction
- 1. Carers
- 2. Context of caring in australia
- 3. Carer legislation and policy
- 4. Multidisciplinary teams
- 5. Work role boundaries for paid support workers
- 6. Including carers and family members as part of the support team
- 7. Carer support
- 8. The family caring for a loved one with dementia
- 9. Life cycle transitions and how this can have positive and negative impacts on the carer relationship with the person
- 10. Caregiver burden
- 11. Rights and roles of different people in the care relationship
- 12. Responsibilities of different people in the care relationship
- 13. Assessing and responding to changes in the care relationship
- 14. Strategies for working positively with families, carers and friends in residential aged care and community settings
- 15. Monitoring and promoting carer rights, health and wellbeing
- 16. Attitudes, stereotypes and myths associated with caring
- No. of pages: 250
- Language: English
- Edition: 3
- Published: July 15, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780729543804
- eBook ISBN: 9780729589277
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Carla Unicomb
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Training Beyond 2000WB
Wendy Bell
Affiliations and expertise
Principal Trainer, Training Beyond 2000