Support workers inHappy Home Care are also sent to local communities toprovide home care and support to older persons living in their ownhomes. Most of these communities are in remote towns and peoplefrom these communities go distances when they need to access healthservices.
One of the new support workers, Eliza, reports that two clientsin the community where she is assigned were diagnosed withtuberculosis (TB). Some other clients in that community catchillnesses but are unable see health specialists. The communitywhere she works have also homeless animals around.
Eliza is still undertraining and the manager of Happy Home Care suggests that newsupport workers be placed in communities requiring health servicedelivery. Before Eliza and other workers can return to thecommunity, they must undergo training regarding infectiousdiseases.
To address this, your supervisor has assigned you write a newpolicy for risk management for support workers in health servicedelivery in remote areas.
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Task 2 This task requires you to develop aWHS policies and procedures relevant to Case Study 3: Eliza whichmust be communicated to the organisation.
In the template provided, write apolicy that must be included in the staff handbook regarding thesituation. Your policy must specifically cover the following:
Guidance:Infection control relevant to Case Study 3 – Eliza, includesadditional precautions (Transmission-based precautions areadditional precautions, and are to be used in addition to StandardPrecautions to prevent infection transmission).
To guide you in drafting the policy,research on relevant and current legislation, practice standards,or source documentation (e.g. workplace handbooks, policies andprocedures similar to this incident), and include any legalinformation in the template.
Specifically, your policy mustcontain the following:
Guidance: Forthe purpose of this assessment, use the current date
Guidance:Include legal information to support the procedures you aredeveloping.
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