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Dec 22, 2024
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DSP 1020 - Safety
Clock Hours: 11
Delivery Mode
on-ground
Course Description:
This course includes basic nursing skills required to provide safe, competent personal care for individuals. Emphasis is place on safety/emergencies and discusses some of the accidents that may occur in a facility and how to prevent them.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Identify common accidents in facilities and ways to prevent them
- Explain the Safety Data Sheet (SDS)
- Describe safety guidelines for sharps and biohazard containers
- Explain the principles of body mechanics and apply them to daily activities
- Define two types of restraints and discuss problems associated with restraints
- Discuss restraint alternatives
- Identify what must be done if a restraint is ordered
- List safety guidelines for oxygen use
- Identify safety guidelines for intravenous (IV) lines
- Discuss fire safety and explain the RACE and PASS acronyms
- List general safety steps for working in a healthcare facility
- Define important words in this chapter
- Demonstrate how to respond to medical emergencies
- Demonstrate knowledge of first aid procedures
- Explain the nursing assistant’s role on a code team
- Describe guidelines for responding to disasters
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