Social care worker: Ensuring own health and safety, adhering to policies and procedures of organisation and legislation, co-operating with colleagues and supervisors,correct use of…
‘As social care worker, you must be accountable for the quality of your work and take responsibility for maintaining and improving your skills knowledge ‘.…
One of the main responsibilities is recognising the limits to your (my)own ability and to ensure that you are always working within these limits. Another reason is that you must understand and apply the relevant legislation and agreed ways of working in your (my) work place setting. A social care worker must be up to date on all health safety training that is relevant to the working role and cooperate with other social care workers on health and safety issues. Social care workers should wear PPE when handling with care-related tasks.…
Black slavery in the South created a bond among white Southerners and cast them in a common mold. Slavery was also the source of the South 's large agricultural wealth, which led to white people controlling a large black minority. Slavery also caused white Southerners to realize what might happen to them should they not protect their own personal liberties, which ironically included the liberty to enslave African Americans. Because slavery was so embedded in Southern life and customs, white leadership reacted to attacks on slavery after 1830 with an ever more defiant defense of the institution, which reinforced a growing sense among white Southerners that their values eventually divided them from their fellow citizens in the Union. The South of 1860 was uniformly committed to a single cash crop, cotton. During its reign, however, regional differences emerged between the Lower South, where the linkage between cotton and slavery as strong, and the Upper South, where slavery was relatively less important and the economy more diversified. Plantations were the leading economic institution in the Lower South. Planters were the most prestigious social group, and, though less than five percent of white families were in the planter class; they controlled more than forty percent of the slaves, cotton, and total agricultural wealth. Most had inherited or married into their wealth, but they could stay at the top of the South 's class structure only by continuing to profit from slave labor. Planters had the best land. The ownership of twenty or more slaves enabled planters to use a gang system to do both routine and specialized agricultural work, and also permitted a regimented pace of work that would have been impossible to impose in free agricultural workers. Teams of field hands were supervised by white overseers and black drivers, slaves selected for their management skills and agricultural knowledge.…
The NLN has such a large presents within the nursing community, but there are more specific and focused organization for specialty sections of nursing. Some of these organizations consist of American Association of Diabetes Educators, American Association of Spinal Cord Nurses, Respiratory Nursing Society, League of Intravenous Nurses, and Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses to only name just a few . Another nursing specialty group, founded in 1974, is the American Assembly for Men in Nursing (About Us). This group aims to encourage men of all ages and various diverse backgrounds to enter the field of nursing (About Us). The organization aims to strengthen and humanize health care with the adjunct of male nurses working along side the entire…
The importance of professional knowledge and practice with in the role of a social care worker is so that they can be kept up to date with all the changes. Within the health care profession all staff must be proactive and focused in their roles, with an ever changing of legislation and minimum standards, it is important that training and the ways of working are kept up to date.…
This introduction, which is also reproduced in the Code of Practice for Employers of Social Care Workers, is intended to help you understand what the codes are for and what they will mean to you as a social care worker, employer, service user or member of the public. The Code of Practice for Social Care Workers is a list of statements that describe the standards of professional conduct and practice required of social care workers as they go about their daily work. This is the first time that standards have been set in this way at national level, although many employers have similar standards in place at local level.…
1. How would you describe your role in your current position and your educational preparation for this role? “Being a Masters trained nurse allows me to obtain advanced level positions within the field of study I love. I have leadership and educational nursing experience gained through the MSN program coupled with my personal nursing experience within hospice. It is my job to hire nurses and ensure they are properly trained and set for success within our company. I also have the skills and knowledge needed to assess potential patients and determine whether they meet criteria. Once we’ve admitted the patient, I am responsible for placing that patient on a team that I fell best fits that patients individual needs.” 2. How would you explain the unique contributions you as a nurse bring to an interdisciplinary team?“I believe we all have something special to bring to the team, but if I were to focus on my skills and attributes, I would say I have the training and knowledge needed to assess and treat the clients we serve. Being the clinical director for this office allows me the ability to hire and supervise nursing staff that I feel have the skills needed to ensure our patients and families are cared for in the best possible manner.”…
Mcrae, S. (2008). 'Clothing workers let down by retailers ', Guardian, 1st February. [online] Available at http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2250384,00.html (Accessed 25/02/08)…
Aspects of personality characteristics and proposes 3 forms of motivation/needs in work situations (achievement, power, affiliation)…
This Power Point Presentation will present how evidence-based practice will influence trends in healthcare and the future of nursing, how the application of nursing theory will continue to influence professional nursing practice, the nurse’s current role is in research, as well as how new roles and opportunities will benefit nursing and healthcare in general.…
This essay will reflect on my personal and professional development during my first year on the nursing diploma programme. I will do this by discussing my experience with the five essential skills clusters which include care, compassion and communication, medicine management and nutrition and fluid management. I will relate the five skills by showing an understanding of a recognised model of reflection. Reflection, is a way of analysing past incidents to promote learning and improve safety, in the delivery of health care in practice. For the purposes of this essay I have chosen the Gibbs reflective cycle model (Gibbs, 1988, cited in O’Caroll & Park, 2007, p86), will be followed, as it gives an opportunity to produce a structured account of the discussion. Gibbs (1988) consists of six stages to complete one cycle which is able to improve my nursing practice continuously and learning from the experience for better practice in the future. The cycle starts with a description of the situation, next is to analysis of the feelings, third is an evaluation of the experience, fourth stage is an analysis to make sense of the experience, fifth stage is a conclusion of what else could I have done and final stage is an action plan to prepare if the situation arose again. In order to respect the patient’s and staff member’s confidentiality (Nursing Midwifery Council, (NMC), the code of standards of conduct, performance, and ethics for nurses and midwives, 2008), the precise location of this placement will not be named. Consent (NMC, 2008) has been obtained from patients mentioned within this essay, although in the interest of maintaining confidentiality (NMC, 2008) of the patients, therefore pseudonyms will be used.…
In this essay I will be discussing the difference in nursing practice regarding manual handling and how it has evolved over the years. Extensive amounts of thought, new equipment and procedures have gone into the present manual handling practices. Many injuries have occurred over the years due to lifting, twisting and bending the wrong way. There are constant improvements being made to assist workers with manual handling and avoid further injuries.…
“Too Good”, by Drake featuring Rihanna, focuses on confidence. Confidence is important because it helps individuals know their worth and how they should be treated both in a relationship and in general. The song is about a couple who try to treat each other the best they can, but neither feel like they are getting what they deserve from the relationship. Drake & Rihanna sang in the chorus, “I’m too good for you, I’m way too good for you.” (Graham & Fenty 17-18)…
The purpose of this discussion is to compare and contrast two theories that were used as the basis for articles in the readings for this week. The first article applies Virginia Henderson’s grand theory of Activities of Living to organ donation after brain death (Nicely & DeLario, 2011). The second article tests a theory of health promotion for preterm infants based on Myra Levine’s Conservation Model of Nursing (Mefford & Alligood, 2011). This student will give a brief overview of each article and then she will compare and contrast the two.…