Explain Possible Priorities and Responses When Dealing with Two Particular Incidents or Emergencies in a Health and Social Care Setting.
Laura Dawson.
Explain possible priorities and responses when dealing with two particular incidents or emergencies in a health and social care setting.
In health and social care there are a lot of procedures and precautions put into place so that accidents don’t occur, but no matter how careful organisations are with these kind of incidents there is no way really of preventing them. In health and social care a lot of risk assessments are taken to make sure the place is safe but obviously there is still a few things that are unstable or accidents like this wouldn’t occur. The staff’s duty then is to work out what happened and how to minimise the risk of it happening again. An emergency is often unexpected, not planned, dangerous and sometimes life threatening. Some incidents that can occur include: fire’s, flood’s, exposure to infection, exposure to chemicals, intruders, aggressive and dangerous encounters and abuse – I will be talking about 2 of these, the concerns about them and justify them.
Fire.
Fire can be a very dangerous occurrence and is very unpredictable; this is why it may cause panic in the area. The first step in when a fire is happening is too let everyone in the building know what is going on, this is simply done by raising the fire alarm for everyone to hear, and then for one person to ring emergency services. Although it may cause panic it must be done to start evacuating the building, but you must not leave the building because you are not to prioritise yourself better than service users, your duty of care is to look after the service users therefore you must help people who are less able than you for example, disabled, small children, restricted mobility, hearing/visual impairments and the elderly. Removing the service users from the care home or wherever you are could be a difficult task because many may be restricted from mobility. The first people to take out in the act of a fire is people that can walk and don’t have mobility issues
Explain possible priorities and responses when dealing with two particular incidents or emergencies in a health and social care setting.
In health and social care there are a lot of procedures and precautions put into place so that accidents don’t occur, but no matter how careful organisations are with these kind of incidents there is no way really of preventing them. In health and social care a lot of risk assessments are taken to make sure the place is safe but obviously there is still a few things that are unstable or accidents like this wouldn’t occur. The staff’s duty then is to work out what happened and how to minimise the risk of it happening again. An emergency is often unexpected, not planned, dangerous and sometimes life threatening. Some incidents that can occur include: fire’s, flood’s, exposure to infection, exposure to chemicals, intruders, aggressive and dangerous encounters and abuse – I will be talking about 2 of these, the concerns about them and justify them.
Fire.
Fire can be a very dangerous occurrence and is very unpredictable; this is why it may cause panic in the area. The first step in when a fire is happening is too let everyone in the building know what is going on, this is simply done by raising the fire alarm for everyone to hear, and then for one person to ring emergency services. Although it may cause panic it must be done to start evacuating the building, but you must not leave the building because you are not to prioritise yourself better than service users, your duty of care is to look after the service users therefore you must help people who are less able than you for example, disabled, small children, restricted mobility, hearing/visual impairments and the elderly. Removing the service users from the care home or wherever you are could be a difficult task because many may be restricted from mobility. The first people to take out in the act of a fire is people that can walk and don’t have mobility issues