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CHCOHS312A
Follow safety procedures
for direct care work
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Definition - Infection Control
Infection control is the prevention of the
spread of micro-organisms from client to
client, client to employee and employee to
client
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Mode of Transmission
• Airborne Droplets
• Throat and Nose Discharge
• Faecal - oral
• Skin Contact
• Blood / Body Fluids
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Methods of Transmission
• Blood, body fluids,
secretions, excretions
• Animals
• Insects
• Eating and drinking items
• Personal care items
• Direct contact
• Dressings
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Causes of Infection
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Viruses
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Fungi
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Bacteria
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Protozoa
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Metazoa
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Cross Infection
transmission of infection from one person to another
• Working without washing hands
• Wearing contaminated clothing / rings or jewellry
• Poor cleaning routines
• Poor food handling routines
• Poor laundering routines
• Poor management of waste routines
• Sharing personal items
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Staff Health and Hygiene
• Adhere to policies and
procedures
• Immunisation
• Jewellry
• Nails
• General health
• Hair
• Skin Integrity
• Uniforms
• Hand washing
• Gloves
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Standard Precautions
• When dealing with blood/ body fluids, use standard
precautions
• Standard precautions treat all clients the same way
regardless of infection status
• Non- discriminatory
• Everyone is a potential reservoir of infection
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Standard Precaution Work Practices
- Personal Hygiene practices/ Hand washing
– Use of PPE
– Safe handling of sharps and clinical waste
– Correct cleaning, laundering, disinfecting and sterilisation
procedures
– Correct food handling
– Safe use of cleaning agents and spills management
– Design and maintenance of facilities and amenities
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Additional Precautions
• Apply to infectious diseases transmitted by airborne or
droplet transmission of respiratory secretions eg such as
TB, chickenpox, measles, rubella, pertussis and influenza
• Isolate client
• Rare infectious diseases and outbreaks are reported to
Public Health Unit of Area Health Service
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Infection Risk Management
Think - identify and assess
Talk - assess the risk
Do – practices and strategies
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Remove the infection hazard
Substitute the infection hazard
Isolate the hazard
Design for safety eg lever taps
Change work methods
• Review
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Exposure to infection
• Report all exposures
• Body fluid contamination
• Sharps injury
• Eye Splash
• Degrees of exposure
• Follow workplace policies and procedures when exposure
to potential reservoir of infection has occurred
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