Handling Information in Health and Social Care Settings

This module is aimed at people working in wide range of settings, encompassing health services and adult social care. It provides learners with the knowledge and skills required to implement and promote good practice in recording, storing and accessing information.

On completion, learners with an increased understanding of the requirements for handling information in health and social care settings and understand how to support others to handle information correctly.

On completion of this course learners will:

• Understand requirements for handling information in health and social care settings
• Be able to implement good practice in handling information
• Be able to support others to handle information

The content of this course has been mapped to the underpinning knowledge within the following units on the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF):

Promote good practice in handling information in health and social care settings

This unit is a mandatory unit within the following qualifications:
Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care (Adults) for England

Handle information in health and social care settings

This unit is a mandatory unit within the following qualifications:
Level 2 Diploma in Health and Social Care (Adults) for England

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Lesson Plan

Areas covered include:

• Welcome and Learning Objectives
• Introduction
• Information Handling Requirements
• Good Practice for Handling Information

Accreditation

The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

Certification

On completion of this course you will be able to download a Virtual College certificate.

Duration

Approximately 1 and a half hours. With approximately 40 interactive screens, it is estimated that this module will take approximately 1 and half hours to complete (depending on learning speed). As an e-learning module you can complete this training in convenient stages. The system will record your progress throughout.

Target Audience

This module is targeted primarily at those working within health, social care settings, including professional care and support workers and practitioners.

Entry Requirements

There are no specific entry requirements for this course.

How it Works

What

This is an online course, all the training will be taken through your browser window. There will be no face-to-face sessions with instructors nor will you receive any training material through the post. If you wish you may print out any page of the training material and may also print the notes you took during the training.

You can also revisit the training material at any time, even after you have completed the course.

How

The material for this course has been broken down into several smaller lessons, each lesson dealing with a specific area of the overall subject.

The lesson consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk you through the lesson material at a pace that suits you. Pages may also include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help you keep in touch and interested in the material.

Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be PAUSED and RESUMED at any stage. When all lessons in the course have been completed our system will realise and automatically record that you have successfully completed the course

When

The course is self-paced so you decide how fast or slow the training goes. You can complete the course in stages revisiting the training at any time.

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