Home Carer Scout Interest Badge
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Badge requirements
- Have passed the Home Carer Scoutcraft Badge and be prepared to demonstrate any of those requirements. OR Complete all the requirements for the Home Carer Scoutcraft Badge.
- Know the contact precautions to be taken when caring for an infectious disease including TB, MDR, XDR and infectious hepatitis in the home.
- Have knowledge of special diets and their preparation for sick people.
- Demonstrate and understand why:
- How to safely lift a person in the bed on your own and reason for good lifting technique.
- How to safely transfer a person from the bed to a chair.
- Explain the dynamics involved in good lifting techniques for you as the lifter and for the patient.
- Position a patient to prevent bedsores.
- Have knowledge on how to identify a specific illness e.g. TB, Hepatitis, etc.
- Know the precautions to be taken when caring for someone with this illness.
- Discuss cross infection and know how to prevent others in the home from being infected by this illness.
- Have knowledge of the special dietary requirements and the specific preparation and storage of foods for people who are:
- People who are HIV positive.
- People with diarrhoea.
- People with Diabetes.
- Elderly with Heart Failure.
- Babies.
- Have a knowledge of the dangers of dehydration:
- Demonstrate the correct preparation of Oral Rehydration Solution (not the packet but from scratch) and when it should be used.
- Explain how to identify dehydration in babies and young children and what to do while seeking medical treatment.
- Knowledge of normal range of temperature, pulse, and respiration.
- Visit a local home nurse / clinic and find out the kind of patients they nurse. Be prepared to discuss this with the examiner.
- Complete the remaining Friend requirement 8 not covered in the Scoutcraft Badge.
Requirements in PDF
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