This instructor-led course covers basic safety tips for both consumers and providers, and how to prevent and handle injuries that happen at home.
Description
It is critical that you work to ensure that you and your consumer remain safe and free from injury. In this course, you will learn how to appropriately respond to emergency situations in the home and provide basic first aid to your consumer. You will also learn about risks related to choking, and how to identify if your consumer is choking and respond appropriately.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify the most common injuries in homecare
- List ways to promote safety and handle non-medical emergencies
- Understand how to prevent fire, burns, and scalds
- Describe basic first aid strategies and how to apply them to a variety of injuries
- List the signs and symptoms of choking
- Describe how to appropriately respond if your consumer is choking
This is course # 2037 in IHSS Career Pathways. It is part of the General Health & Safety Pathway, which is a general pathway.
Please note: Each class can only be taken once. Registrations for additional sessions of the same course are not eligible for payment of training time or incentives and may be deleted. If you wish to change your registration to a different time or date, please cancel your reservation in the User Portal after registering for the new session. If you need help, please contact CareerPathwaysInfo@HomebridgeCA.org.
