CU2641 UNDERTAKE AGREED PRESSURE AREA CARE Understand the anatomy and physiology of the skin in relation to pressure area care 1.1 Describe the anatomy and physiology of the skin in relation to skin breakdown and the development of pressure sores Skin is the largest organ of the body and can be damaged easily. Pressure sores can happen when there is a constant deficiency of blood to the tissues over an area. The most commonly affected areas include ankles‚ sacrum area‚ buttocks‚ hip and
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RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY THIS IS COVERED BY THE HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK ACT 1974 (HASAWA) THIS ACT IS LIKE AN UMBRELLA THAT IS UPDATED AND THE LEGISLATIONS AROUND IT CONSIST: * MANUAL HANDLING OPERATIONS REGULATIONS 1992 (AMENDED 2002) * CONTROL OF SUBSTANCES HAZARDOUS TO HEALTH REGULATIONS 2002 (COSHH) * REPORTING OF INJURIES‚ DISEASES AND DANGEROUS OCCURRANCES REGULATIONS 1995 (RIDDOR) (AMENDED 2008) * HEALTH AND SAFETY FIRST AID REGULATIONS 1981 * MANAGMENT OF HEALTH AND SAFETY
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Principles of Health and Social Care Practice Introduction This unit develops understanding of the values and principles that underpin the practice of all those who work in health and social care. The essay consider theories and policies that underpin health and social care practice and explore formal and informal mechanisms required to promote good practice by individuals in the workforce‚ including strategies that can influence the performance of others. The first part of this essay will consider
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Unit 540 Lead positive behavioural support | Positive behaviour support (PBS) is an approach to providing services to individuals who exhibit challenging behaviour. Since the early 1990s‚ PBS has received increasing attention from the behaviour-analytic community. Some behaviour analysts have embraced this approach‚ but others have voiced questions and concerns. Over the past dozen
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Funding Health Care Services Recommend How Ambulatory Services Should Be Funded There are many businesses like ambulance services that are private. Their fees are collected by the person that is using the service to be transported to the doctor or the use of their insurance they use to assist with their services. The community also provides some of the services and they are supported by taxes. In some cases‚ this is very rare. The hospital provides some of the ambulance services which are paid
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Role of Communication in a Health Care Objective of Communication The aim of communication involves the study and use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual and community decisions that enhance health. The importance of communication in health care is increasingly recognized as a necessary element of efforts to improve personal and public health. Health communication can contribute to all aspects of disease prevention and health promotion and is relevant in a number
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Unit 324 Supporting individual with specific communication needs 1.1 Explain the importance of meeting an individual’s communication needs. Answer People communicate because they need to let others know what they want and feel‚ as well as to find things out and get answers to their question and to pass on information and give direction. Communication is a basic human right. Without communication the individual is unable to realise or exercise their rights. Under the human rights act
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1. How Health and Safety legislation is implemented in the workplace ( Learning Outcome 1) 2. The ways in which health and safety requirements impact on customers and the work of practitioners‚ staff‚ visitors and clients in the health and social care workplace (Learning Outcome 2) 3. The monitoring and review of health and safety policies in the health and social care workplace (Learning Outcome 3)
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Communication of Electronic Medical Records HCS/490 February 115th 2013 Lillian Preston Communication of Electronic Medical Records Communication in the health care industry is important‚ and to the patients as well. Patients want to see and understand his or her progress when dealing with health care providers. Health care today’s patients want to remain more involved with any paperwork that has been signed or want to know what information is on his or her medical records. Patients or
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UNIT 4: DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE LIFE STAGES P2 – Describe the potential influences of five life factors on the development of individuals. The development of individuals can be affected by a number of life factors which include genetic‚ biological‚ environmental‚ socio economic and lifestyle factors. All these life factors have a large variety of influences which will affect individuals and how they develop through the life stages. The first life factor is the genetics of an individual
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