Reference no: EM132977213
Assessment task - Professional Practice Assessment
Professional Practice Assessment Task 1:
When working as an enrolled nurse in a health and community care setting, you are required to follow organisational infection prevention and control procedures, including implementing standard and transmission-based precautions and responding to infection risks.
As part of this unit assessment, you must perform the following skills in accordance with the organisational infection prevention and control procedures:
» Use of alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR)
» Hand washing
» Care of hands (maintaining finger nails, attending to skin care needs, jewellery and watches)
» Appropriate use of PPE such as disposable gloves, masks, gowns etcetera
» Appropriate handling and disposal of soiled linen
» Enforcing clean and contaminated zones
» Limitation of contamination
» Surface cleaning (e.g. cleaning a client's immediate environment such as overbed table, bed side table etcetera
» Handle and clean client equipment
Ensure that you access the workplace policies and procedures, accurately interpret them, comply with these procedures and appropriately use workplace resources available, e.g. hand washing facilities, PPE, waste receptacles etcetera.
A range of these skills will be co-assessed with your routine clinical practice or tasks relating to other units of competency where infection prevention and control are recommended.
The Host Facilitator or EQUALS' Clinical Facilitator will observe your performance and complete the task log and observation checklist (provided in the logbook) and assessment outcome sections based on your infection prevention and control knowledge and skills. The task log summarises infection prevention activities that you have to undertake. The observation checklist includes overall observable behaviours related to infection prevention and control activities. The Host Facilitator or EQUALS' Clinical Facilitator will observe your performance over a duration of a shift or when undertaking a range of nursing care activities for a client to evaluate your infection prevention and control skills.