This unit is one of the Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care Optional Units and has the following learning outcomes and assessment criteria:
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- 1 Understand policy and procedures for the supply and exchange of injecting equipment
- 1.1 Describe organisational policies and procedures for supply and exchange of injecting equipment
- 1.2 Explain policy guidelines and legislation for needle exchange with children, young people and individuals with learning difficulties
- 1.3 Identify the potential benefits of brief interventions with substance users
- 1.4 Describe the range of behaviours that can be expected from substance users, and how to deal with these
- 1.5 Describe how to recognise and deal with immediate risk of danger to individuals who have used substance
- 1.6 Describe the potential blood borne viruses
- 1.7 Explain what to do in the event of a needle stick injury occurring
- 1.8 Describe the range of substance misuse services available in the locality
- 1.9 Explain legal and organisational procedures and requirements regarding the recording, storage and passing on of information relating to individuals and work undertaken with them
- 2 Be able to conduct initial assessment of substance users and provide relevant advice
- 2.1 Establish whether the individual is injecting and the frequency of injecting
- 2.2 Conduct a health assessment with the individual (e.g. noting skin conditions, abscesses, injecting sites)
- 2.3 Provide relevant and timely advice e.g. 2.3 A safe or safer injecting techniques and sites 2.3 B harm minimisation 2.3 C primary health 2.3 D safer sex
- 2.4 Provide advice and resources for safe storage and disposal of injecting equipment
- 2.5 Refer individuals to other services according to identified need
- 2.6 Liaise with providers of other services in line with policies and protocol
- 3 Be able to supply and exchange injecting equipment
- 3.1 Demonstrate that: 3.1 A adequate stocks of injecting equipment are maintained 3.1 B injecting equipment is stored safely and securely
- 3.2 Dispense injecting equipment to individuals in line with the assessment of their needs
- 3.3 Demonstrate safe handling of dispensed and returned injecting equipment
- 3.4 Carry out the exchange process discreetly to maintain confidentiality
- 3.5 Describe how to deal with any spillages and discarded needles and syringes using the appropriate materials
- 3.6 Maintain records of: 3.6 A injecting equipment supply and exchange in line with organisational procedures 3.6 B the needle exchange service
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