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Question

You must understand the safety considerations when working as an Enrolled Nurse in a home-based environment.

1. Identify two rights and two responsibilities of workers when working in a home-based environment.

2. Identify two rights and two responsibilities of clients when the care provision is organized in a home-based environment.

3. Identify three high-risk client groups susceptible to fire injury and fatalities in a home-based environment. Provide an example of the contributing behaviors for each high-risk group.

4. Describe the ideal locations for placing smoke alarms in a home-based environment.

5. Who should you liaise with to install a main powered smoke alarm?

6. Identify and describe three key smoke alarm maintenance routines you must follow to provide effective protection.

7. Identify two risks to personal safety when working in a home-based environment and describe the strategies you should implement to minimize identified risks.

8. Identify two common sources of infection in a home-based environment and describe means to minimize the transfer of infectious diseases.

9. What are the risks associated with showering or bathing a person in their own home? (Hint: common physical injuries and causative factors).

10. Describe three practices you could implement to minimize injury to self and clients in relation to the above-identified physical injuries.