Health Diploma Level 3 Underpinning Knowledge Workbook
Health Diploma Level 3
Underpinning Knowledge Workbook
Unit 007 – The Principles of Infection Prevention and Control
Unit 008 – Causes and Spread of Infection
Unit 031 - Cleaning, Decontamination and Waste Management
Unit 304 – Promote and Implement Health and Safety in Health and Social Care
Candidate Name:…………………………………… Evidence Number:.……..
Registration no:………………………..........
Date to be submitted to Personal Tutor for Marking:………………………..
Guidance
These units are aimed at those working in a wide range of settings. It provides the learner with the knowledge and skills required to promote and implement health and safety in their work setting. It introduces the learner to national and local policies in relation to infection control, the correct way to maintain a clean environment, the procedures to follow to decontaminate an area and waste management. The units also covers risk assessment in relation to the prevention and control of infections, personal protective equipment, personal hygiene, understanding the causes of infection, differences between infection, colonisation, pathogenic and non pathogenic organisms. The learner will understand the methods of transmission, conditions needed for organisms to grow, the ways infection enter the body and the key factors that may lead to infection occurring.
You may also be required to show competence while being observed by your named assessor/Expert Witness in order to complete all the assessment criteria for this unit. See below for details;
|Tutor: |Underpinning Knowledge covered via this workbook; |
| |AC’s: |
| |unit 007 AC’s 3.2, 4.1,2,3,4, 5.2,3,6,7,8, 6.1,3,4,5,6.
Underpinning Knowledge Workbook
Unit 007 – The Principles of Infection Prevention and Control
Unit 008 – Causes and Spread of Infection
Unit 031 - Cleaning, Decontamination and Waste Management
Unit 304 – Promote and Implement Health and Safety in Health and Social Care
Candidate Name:…………………………………… Evidence Number:.……..
Registration no:………………………..........
Date to be submitted to Personal Tutor for Marking:………………………..
Guidance
These units are aimed at those working in a wide range of settings. It provides the learner with the knowledge and skills required to promote and implement health and safety in their work setting. It introduces the learner to national and local policies in relation to infection control, the correct way to maintain a clean environment, the procedures to follow to decontaminate an area and waste management. The units also covers risk assessment in relation to the prevention and control of infections, personal protective equipment, personal hygiene, understanding the causes of infection, differences between infection, colonisation, pathogenic and non pathogenic organisms. The learner will understand the methods of transmission, conditions needed for organisms to grow, the ways infection enter the body and the key factors that may lead to infection occurring.
You may also be required to show competence while being observed by your named assessor/Expert Witness in order to complete all the assessment criteria for this unit. See below for details;
|Tutor: |Underpinning Knowledge covered via this workbook; |
| |AC’s: |
| |unit 007 AC’s 3.2, 4.1,2,3,4, 5.2,3,6,7,8, 6.1,3,4,5,6.