As a student you should:
- make sure that you take all appropriate steps to limit the risk of harm to service users, carers and others.
- not do anything that you think will put someone in danger or at unacceptable risk.
- follow your education provider’s or practice placement provider’s policy on managing risk.
- be aware that you may put your service users or yourself at risk if your performance or judgement is affected by your physical or mental health.
- seek appropriate support and adapt your study or stop studying if your performance or judgement is affected by your physical or mental health and could put service users, yourself or others at risk.
- get advice from a doctor, or other appropriate professional, if you are worried about your physical or mental health.
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What the standard says:
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Identify and minimise risk6.1 You must take all reasonable steps to reduce the risk of harm to service users, carers and colleagues, as far as possible.
6.2 You must not do anything, or allow someone else to do anything, which could put the health or safety of a service user, carer or colleague at unacceptable risk.
Manage your health
6.3 You must take responsibility for assessing whether changes to your physical and/or mental health will detrimentally impact your ability to practise safely and effectively. If you are unsure about your ability to do so, ask an appropriate health and care professional to make an assessment on your behalf.
6.4 You must adjust your practice if your physical and/or mental health will detrimentally impact your ability to practise safely and effectively. These adjustments must promote safe and effective practice. Where it is not possible to make these adjustments within your scope of practice, you must stop practising.