I work in a nursing home for the dementia of the elderly and I understand that their upbringing and background was very different to how mine was, some of the service users have a very different view on life with their beliefs but I take into account that everyone has their own way of living and thinking for example sadly one of the services users past away last year and her close friend who also lives in the home wanted me to accompany her to her funeral in a church, even though I don’t believe in god I still took the time on my day off to take her and pay my respect and sang the songs throughout the lovely service, religion may affect people in different ways as we are taught differently and brought up in different ways by doing this it made me happy that I made a service user happy that she could attend.it is important that I remember that my personal preferences are different to others and that I can’t and will not try to change that, for example iv recently had a conversation with an elderly woman that I look after about cleanliness, she explained to me that when she was my age she only had a bath once a week and that was only on a Sunday, I explained to her my beliefs in how I have a bath daily and sometimes twice a day as that is how I was brought up, I asked her if she still would like to have a bath on a Sunday but she replied with she doesn’t really mind what day she has her bath but sometimes would like two.…
2.1) Explain the actions to take if there are suspicions that an individual is being abused.…
Physical abuse is a deliberate use of physical force that results in bodily injury pain or impairments. Sgns of physical abuse can be burns and scalds, marks on the skin consistent with being slapped, scratched, bitten or pinched.Sexual abuse is direct or indirect involvementin sexual activity without valid consent. Signs of sexual abuse could be sexual transmitted disease,unexplained crying and distress or anxiety and fear of physical touch. Emotional/psycholoigical abuse is any action by another that damages an individuals mental wellbeing, signs of this is attention seeking behaviour,depression,low self-esteem and lack of self confidence. Financial abuse is theft or misuse of an individuals money or personal possessions to the advantage of another person, signs of this abuse could be no food in the house, missing money,chequebook, bank card, credit card or possessions. Institutional abuse this is the mistreatment or abuse of an individual by a regime or people within an institution, signs of this abuse could be rigid routines,lack of choice offered,culturaland religious needs not being met. Self neglect this is where and individual fails to adequetley care for themselves and meetb theirown basic needs. Signs of self neglect is neglecting personal hygiene, not eating, over eating, self harm. Neglect by others this is the deliberate or unintentional failure to meet an individuals basic needs for personal care, food, warmth, rest, medical care, social stimulation, cultural or religious needs. Signs of this is denial of access to health or social care, failure in the 'duty of care ',witholding medication.…
Question 1.1 &1.2 –Identify the signs and/or symptoms associated with each type of abuse and define these types of abuses…
1.1 Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role…
The federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) is a security measure to preserve the confidentiality of medical records and standardized electronic data interchange (EDI) among providers, insurers, and government agencies.…
This refers to the psychological or emotional exploitation of the relationship between a care worker/person and a service user.…
SIGNS OR SYMPTOMS - unusual sexual behaviour, blood or marks on underclothes, recurrent genital/urinary infections, loss of confidence, lack of interest in appearance, sleeping problems, feeling depressed, frequent complaints of abdominal pain,…
Sexual abuse refers to any action that pressures or coerced someone to participate in a sexual act that the individual does not want a part in. Sexual a use also refers to any behaviour that impacts on an individual 's ability to control their sexual activity or the circumstances in which sexual activity occurs.…
Institutional abuse involves failure of an organisation to provide appropriate and professional individual services to vulnerable people. It can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes and behaviour that amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness, and stereotyping and rigid systems.…
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a federal law that defines the reasons protected health information (PHI) can be released. HIPAA created important rules and regulations safeguarding the confidentiality of protected health information (PHI) and published updated guidelines in 2003 to include electronically collected, maintained, used, or transmitted PHI. Any confidentiality violation could result in fines, termination, and possible imprisonment (Green, Bowie, 2010). In most cases, the covered entity is required to obtain an individual’s authorization prior to disclosing any health information to a third party. In most circumstances, the patient or a legal representative of the patient controls the disclosure of PHI to any third party. If there is a signed consent, the covered entity may release the PHI to anyone the patient wants without violating HIPAA regulation. If the patient is not present or is incapacitated, PHI may need to be disclosed to another person if it is found to be in the best interest of the patient (State of Idaho, 2000).…
Physical: Physical abuse is deliberate physical force that may result in bodily injury, pain, or impairment. Both old and young people can be physically abused.…
The use and disclosure of healthcare information have become some of the most heavily regulated areas of health care. There are some laws that concerning privacy of healthcare information like The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act(HIPAA). It mandated that health and human services issue regulations for the privacy of individually identifiable health information. Also it maintains the individuals past, present or future mental health or condition. It also many other things like Protected health information, notice of privacy practices, patient authorization, changes to records and tracking of disclosures. Additionally, ethical health research and privacy protection both provides valuable protection to society. Protecting individual’s…
The Health Information Portability Accountability Act was enacted to prevent patient’s private health information from being disclosed without authorization. The Health Information Portability Accountability Act has different sections which define what covered entities are, and explain what minimum necessity is in relation to patient’s private health information. This paper also discusses what the penalties may be for different types of private health information breaches under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act.…
Medical information is always confidential. This is because if it was released it would violate HIPPA and put the patient in danger of identity theft, fraud, or physical harm. If a medical record was to be modified it should only be done by a medical personal. If it wasn’t put in by someone authorized this can cause harm to a patent, especially if it was written (by someone not authorized) in the record that they no longer need certain medications. Medical information is always available to medical personal and to the patient (if they ask for it). If this information was not available it can cause all sort of issues.…