Course Code: REL-PAC-0-WHAS
Hours: 1
Type: Online Course
Content Expiration Date: 12/31/2024
Learning Objectives:
Explain the workplace safety risks faced by healthcare employees
Recognize general safe practices related to slips, trips, and falls; ergonomics, back and lifting safety, and noise and stress
Identify common devices to assist caregivers in moving, lifting, and transferring clients and when and how they should be used
Describe the risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens, methods for minimizing that risk, and what to do in the event of exposure
Practice standard precautions, including proper hand and respiratory hygiene, proper use of personal protective equipment, and handling and disposal of sharps, hazardous waste, and contaminated food trays
Recognize hazards stemming from the work environment, including hazardous chemicals, fire, electrical shock, and radiation exposure
Explain how to read and use chemical Safety Data Sheets to properly store, use, and dispose of hazardous chemicals as well as how to respond in the case of a spill or employee exposure
Identify workplace violence and work to prevent incidences of violence in their workplace
Outline:
I. Introduction
A. Incidence of workplace injury
B. General tips
II. General Safe Practices
A. Avoiding Slips, Trips, and Falls
B. Workplace Ergonomics
C. Back and Lifting Safety
1. Lifting techniques
2. Reporting injuries
3. Lifting Aids/Devices
D. Learning engagement: multiple choice questions
E. Effects of Noise
F. Effects of Stress
III. Exposure to Infection
A. Risk
B. Learning engagement: multiple choice question
C. Bloodborne Pathogens
1. What to do if Exposure Occurs
2. Cleaning Spills of Blood/Other Potentially Infectious Materials (OPIM)
i. Spill kits
ii. Personal protective equipment
iii. Solid surface spills
iv. Carpet surface spills
v. Blood wet and dry
D. Standard Precautions
1. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
i. Importance and Types of PPE
a. Tips for using PPE
ii. Maintenance and construction specific PPE
a. Safety glasses
b. Footwear
c. Rubber gloves
d. Hard Hats
iii. PPE use and chemicals
iv. Containing chemicals
v. Wasting hazardous chemicals
vi. Learning engagement: fill in the blank and multiple choice
IV. Environmental Hazards
A. Electrical
B. Lockout/Tagout
C. Fire
1. RACE
2. PASS
D. Hazardous Chemicals
1. General Chemical Safety
2. Chemical Hazard Categories
3. Safety Data Sheets and Labels
4. Engineering controls
i. Administrative
ii. Elimination
iii. Substitution
5. Managing a chemical exposure
i. Communicate the hazard
ii. Control the spill
iii. Contain the hazard
iv. Clean up the spill
v. Use of safety data sheets
vi. Poison control
vii. Learning engagement: multiple choice questions
V. Workplace Violence
A. Prevention
1. Worker education
2. Identify workplace hazards
3. Substitution controls
4. Engineering controls
5. Administrative control
Instructor: Eric Chalfant, PhD
Dr. Eric Chalfant is a professional researcher and author with a PhD in religious studies from Duke University. He honed his research skills as a nationally-ranked collegiate policy debater and debate coach at Whitman College. In addition to his work for OnCourse Learning, Eric has contributed to Duke University's National Congregation Study and has edited and published scholarly works for Oxford University Press.
Instructor: Holly Carlson, MS, RN, CCRN
Holly Carlson, MS, RN, CCRN, was a subject matter expert for Relias. She has 25 years of healthcare experience in both acute and post-acute healthcare environments. Her experience includes leadership and management across the healthcare spectrum. She has owned and operated an assisted living business. Carlson's clinical practice includes acute care, long-term acute care, home health and hospice. Carlson has served for over a decade in various board positions for State Nursing Associations, including president. She has been a nurse planner for multiple continuing education events and has experience as a leader in the design and implementation of an ANCC-CNE accredited approver unit for a multi-state nursing consortium. Carlson is certified as Critical Care Registered Nurse.
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Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.