Residential Age Care facilities education Resources

Part 1: Why is it Important to clean your hands?

This video covers the following areas:

• Why we must perform hand hygiene?
• The importance of hand hygiene
• Health risks of associated with poor hand hygiene

Part 2: What is Hand Hygiene?

This video covers the following areas:

• The two methods of hand hygiene
• Appropriate times to use alcohol based versus soap based products

Part 3: When do we need to clean our hands?

This video covers the following areas:

• 5 moments of hand hygiene

Part 1: Infections and how they are spread

This video covers the following areas:

• What is an infection?
• Who is at risk from an infection and why?
• How infections spread
• Definition of an infection Outbreak for gastroenteritis and influenza

Part 2: How to stop the spread of gastroenteritis and influenza

This video covers the following areas:

• Why the elderly are at increased risk
• Best practices to prevent germ spreading (Standard Precautions)
• Additional precautions for gastroenteritis and influenza
• Effective hand hygiene
• Personal Protective Equipment (donning and Doffing)
• Environmental cleaning

Part 3: Gastroenteritis and influenza in an aged care residential facility

This video covers the following areas:

• Identifying an outbreak of gastroenteritis or influenza
• Outbreak management plan
• Outbreak kit contents and use
• Infection control measures
• Managing an outbreak in a facility
• Collecting and storing specimens
• Documentation
• Staff awareness of infection signs and symptoms

Part 1: What is wound care?

This video covers the following areas:

• Principles of wound care
• What is a wound
• Types of wounds: Acute and Chronic

Part 2: How does the body heal?

This video covers the following areas:

• Phases of wound healing
• Principles of improved wound healing
• Intrinsic and extrinsic wound healing factors
• Types of wounds and their management

Part 3: Acute and Chronic Wounds

This video covers the following areas:

• Skin tears
• Prevention through education, moisturising and exercises
• Appropriate cleaning of wounds
• Ulcers – causes, types and treatment
• Diabetic foot – types and management
• Pressure ulcer care

Part 4: General rules of wound management

This video covers the following areas:

• Cleaning a wound
• Aseptic technique
• Assessment of the wound

Part 5: Wound dressings

This video covers the following areas:

• History of wound dressings
• Classification of dressing: Interactive and passive dressings
• Appropriate usage of different dressing types on wounds
• When to change dressings
• Managing complex wounds