Course Work

There are many incidents and emergencies that can occur in a health and social care setting regardless of how careful an organisation is and how many precautions they take.The health care setting I will be talking about is a hospital, and the priorities and responses that should take place when dealing with incidents and emergencies within it. Priorities are steps that need to be taken in the case of an emergency or incident that are considered more important over other plan of actions. A response is what action is taken after the emergency or incident in order to prevent it from recurring or minimising the risk and likelihood of it happening again. I will be discussing the three most important priorities and the response that follows in the case of a possible emergency or incident in a hospital.
An emergency can be defined as a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action. There are many examples of emergencies that can take place in a hospital setting, some include the following. Fire; spillage of chemicals;
As been spoken in the risks assessment that there are many risks that can occur in a residential home. I mentioned that one of the hazards could have been the patients escaping the care home.
It is a huge hazard if one of the doors was left unlock or open and none of the careers were watching over the patients. Patients could leave the building and be heading to the main road. A lot can happen on a main road which can do a lot of harm.
If there was a scenario where one of the patients went missing and the careers noticed the door was open. They would have to call the search team to help look for the patient and will fill a report form. It would be unlikely for the patient to come back due to the dementia and not realising or knowing where they are going. They should inform the family that their relative has exited the building and to ensure the, that there is a search team already looking for the patient and ensure them