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| Certified Nursing AssistantHighly skilled career professional with more than 8 years practical experience in home health care, assisted living, and primary care environments.Superb knowledge and understanding of the challenging behaviors that may occur as a result of a client diagnosed with a developmental disability, physical delay dementia, and dementia-related illnesses.Computer skilled, managing heavy daily client volume including telephone triage, appointment scheduling, and client referral. Proficient in all documentation/record maintenance/paperwork to ensure accuracy and client confidentiality.All areas of major and minor procedures performed in assisted living environments.…
Common sense in the workplace has been replaced by litigation. Human resource departments now have many rules and regulations that need to be followed or the company can face stiff fines and penalties. Some of these regulations that have been established by the United States, such as the Department of Labor, the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Americans with Disabilities Act from 1990, and the Department of Homeland Security will be discussed in this paper in relation to how they have an effect on all human resource departments of all types of organizations.…
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Promote good practice in handling information in health and social care settings HSC 038 3 2 16 J/601/9470…
The core competencies needed for health care professionals, especially patient centered care, is an important part of health care. Even though there are any obstacles to patient centered care, there are ways to overcome these obstacles. Health care coordination is an important part of interprofessional collaboration which relates to patient center care. “The benefit of patient-centered care improves patient satisfaction and when the feeling of your healthcare needs are being met, and your concerns are being heard often makes patients happier with the care they receive” (Brown,…
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The main areas of the brain that are affected by dementia in terms of causing difficulties…
Aging is the length of time during which a being or thing has existed length of life (Webster dictionary). Growing old and becoming an elderly person can be challenging but, yet it can be very rewarding, it can bring a lot of good and bad. Aging has its rewards, but it presents the challenges of all stages of life. Growing old consist of gradual, ongoing changes in the body, changes such as shrinking in height in which the elderly tends to get shorter as he or she age. Elderly people tends to have less appetite which causes them to lose weight, and a decline in strength and vitality, which can sometimes make them feels very weak at times and needs either a cane or a walker or even someone to help assist them in walking.…
In nursing homes or in home health care services, elder abuse and neglect is prevalent because it is difficult to recognize. Reports of elder abuse are on the rise and nurses can prevent elder abuse from happening. They are mandated to report to Adult Protective Services and usually frontline staff who will see signs of abuse. Elder abuse is any knowing, intentional, or negligent act by by a caregiver or any other person that causes harm or a serious risk of harm to a vulnerable adult. Neglect is the failure to provide for one’s self the goods or services, including medical services, which are necessary to avoid physical or emotional harm or pain or the failure of a caretaker to provide such goods or services. (Hamp, 2001) The elderly face…
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