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Dear Training Programs,
A new Fundamentals of Caregiving (FOC) “revision history” document is now available on our curriculum download page linked below.
https://www.dshs.wa.gov/altsa/training/dshs-curriculum-and-materials-available.
DSHS released the Fundamentals of Caregiving, 3rd Edition in December 2021. Small but important revisions were made in August of 2023 and again in October 2024 and this new revision history document lists all the changes.
The revision date is located on the back cover of the FOC textbook. The current edition is “Rev. 10/24”. If your book has an older revision date, please use the revision history document. The list below includes all of the changes made between the August 2023 version and the current October 2024 version.
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Page 126 under “Exposure to Blood-Borne Diseases”: Removed guidance to use hydrogen peroxide if exposed to blood or body fluids following updated guidance from the CDC.
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Page 421 under “(CDC) guidelines … for donning and removing PPE”: New link to CDC guidance: https://www.cdc.gov/infection-control/media/pdfs/strive-ppe101-508.pdf
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Throughout: Minor corrections to typos and wording.
The revision history document is available in the same thirteen languages as the Fundamentals of Caregiving. In addition, we have added higher-resolution versions of the textbook for better readability.
Please reach out to our training development team at TCDUTrngDev4@dshs.wa.gov if you have any questions, concerns, or feedback.
If you are the coordinator for your training program, please forward this email to your program’s instructors.
Thank you for supporting Washington’s caregivers!
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