This instructor-led course covers strategies for preventing risk in the home and administering first aid when your consumer is injured or choking.
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 prevent risk, appropriately respond to emergency situations in the home and provide basic first aid to your consumer.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Observe and document key information about safety in the home environment
- Describe steps caregivers can take to assist the consumer in making the home safer
- Observe safety hazards outside the home and describe steps caregivers can take to assist the consumer with being safe outside the home.
- Define "first aid"
- Explain what first aid procedures caregivers are allowed to do
- Describe how to know if your consumer is choking and why it occurs
This is course # 2059 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.
