Home visit guidelines
Do you know your guidelines to minimise risks and to ensure your safety whilst preparing for and undertaking home visits?
What You'll Learn
This PracticeLab quiz helps you revisit the essential concepts that guide safe, quality practice. Answer the questions, read the explanations, and build confidence in the knowledge you bring to your role.
Pre-Visit Planning and Risk Assessment
Learn how to conduct thorough risk assessments before home visits, including reviewing client histories, identifying potential hazards, planning safe entry and exit strategies, and ensuring appropriate preparation for cultural considerations and communication needs.
Personal Safety and Managing Dangerous Situations
Understand strategies for maintaining personal safety during home visits, recognising warning signs of violence or aggressive behaviour, managing confrontations, dealing with dogs and animals, and knowing when to postpone or terminate a visit.
Emergency Response in Home Visit Situations
Learn appropriate responses to emergency situations encountered during home visits, including protocols for finding injured or deceased persons, managing medical emergencies, handling situations where household access is blocked, and knowing when to contact emergency services.
Cultural Safety
Explore cultural considerations for respectful home visits in New Zealand including Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles, tikanga Māori practices, Pacific and multicultural protocols.
Post-Visit Documentation
Essential post-visit reporting and incident documentation requirements.
