TRAINING & EDUCATION


A Florence Nightingale Movement


Kelsey Hargreaves, Technical Specialist at the British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc), explains the importance of giving patients treatment and care in a clean environment and how employers can ensure people are effectively trained in how to do so.


Over the course of my career, I have had the pleasure of attending some great healthcare conferences, and last year I had the privilege of attending and speaking at the Infection Prevention Society Yearly Conference held in Liverpool.


Although I was kept busy presenting and speaking with exhibitors, I did get to participate and watch some talks. I was very happy to see that a lot of the information being shared was around the importance of helping care homes in their battle of infection prevention. A key topic was on what different industries could offer to help with new standards that need to be followed in a world where budgets get tighter, and resources can become scarce for environments outside of mainstream healthcare settings.


While at the conference, I spoke on creating a ‘Florence Nightingale Movement in Healthcare Cleaning’. As we all know, real care doesn’t just mean a comfortable bed and a nice meal; it means giving the patient treatment and care in a clean environment. The only way we are going to do that is if all of those who are responsible for the cleanliness of a facility are trained to clean safely, effectively, and in a standardised manner.


In the National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021, the 50 elements show us that clinical teams are recommended as the responsible group for the cleanliness of some of the elements. Doctors, nurses, HCAs are all trained in how to give excellent care to patients, but they are not, for the most part, trained in how to clean correctly or effectively.


Whether in healthcare or not, if anyone is asked to, or is expected to be responsible for the cleanliness of an element, it is imperative that they are effectively trained in how to do so. The only way we are going to reboot a Florence Nightingale movement is with a standardised approach.


HOW CAN YOU START?


Have you ever thought of joining thousands of other healthcare professionals and training with BICSc?


BICSc is the largest independent, professional, and educational body within the cleaning industry providing training and education, setting standards and procedures for cleaning. BICSc membership now stands at over 60,000 individual and corporate members in the UK and Internationally.


We are a membership organisation that strives to bring recognition of the vital role cleaning operatives play in everyone’s day-to-day life.


Whether you’re shopping, travelling, working, holidaying, or recuperating, every one of these scenarios has cleaning staff


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striving to ensure that the environment is not only clean but also safe.


Founded over 60 years ago, BICSc’s key objective is to promote the value and professionalism of the cleaning industry, providing training in the fundamental skills required to enhance a cleaning operative’s core role whilst keeping them safe and encouraging them to work in a more effective and efficient manner.


VIRTUAL TRAINING SUITE


In line with healthcare practice, at BICSc we offer healthcare- based units, which teach a candidate to clean in an effective, safe, and standardised manner:


● 14 BICSc Healthcare Base Units. ● 14 BICSc Healthcare Additional Units. ● 14 BICSc Healthcare Specialist Units.


In addition to these 42 Healthcare skills, we offer Cleanlogic qualifications, that are each certificated within BICSc standards, we even have courses which are written to help all in a healthcare environment understand the National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness. This training is not only applicable to the cleaning operative but should be utilised by all that have responsibility for the cleanliness of an area.


A free certificated taster of BICSc We even offer free courses in: ● Hand Hygiene. ● Understanding Chemical Hazard Pictograms. ● Understanding PPE. ● Robotic Cleaning.


These courses are certificated, anyone can do them – cleaning operatives, doctors, care assistants, nurses, or administrative assistants.


A clean environment is half of the care, lets create safer spaces in a standardised way. Be the change in care that you want to see.


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