The World Health Organization (2003)[1] defines palliative care as: “An approach that improves the quality of life of individuals and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness‚ through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems‚ physical‚ psychosocial and spiritual”. WHO (2003) further states that palliative care: • provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms;
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OBAMA CARE Obama Care and health care reform is the same thing. The official name for "Obama Care" is the Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act‚ a bill signed into law to reform the health care industry. Some aspects of Obama Care health care reform are already enacted. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law March 23‚ 2010. Over 100 million Americans have already benefited from the new health care law. The Obama Care insurance requires that all insurance
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The United States health care system can be somewhat complicated and often have some barriers or limitations to care. The continuum of care is one of the concepts that is applied to prevent the limitations within the system. Continuum of care is defined as: A range of services developed and organized to address the variety of needs individuals have as they age. This concept recognizes and considers the availability and extent of short-term and long-term care systems and services in
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and social care Unit number: 24 Level: 5 Credit value: 15 Guided learning hours: 60 Unit reference number: A/601/1639 UNIT AIM AND PURPOSE This unit will provide learners with an understanding of methods used to bring information about contemporary health and social care issues to the public‚ progressing to examining how these methods can influence public opinion. Learners will also have the opportunity to explore a contemporary health and social care issue of
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agreed ways of working Page 6 – 9 Section 3: Understanding your role in the wider care sector Page 9 – 12 Section 4: Career pathways in the care sector Page 12 – 15 Section 5: Issues of public concern in the care sector Page 16 – 17 Assessment Questions Page 18 – 29 The assessment questions will cover all the criteria for the ERR unit: Understand employment responsibilities and rights in health and social care of the Level 2 Award in ERR. Where criteria have been covered is outlined in the
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Foster Care System: Salvation or Detriment Imagine your family being broken up and scattered to a random location with a random group of people that you now must live and grow with. This decision is completely out of your control and very well may be the most important one of your life. This is what is known as the foster care system. This is detrimental to American society‚ because “according to national statistic 40 to 50 percent of those children will never complete high school. Sixty-six percent
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DUTY OF CARE A Tort is a civil wrong‚ which is an action brought to enforce‚ redress or protect rights or noncriminal litigation. There are many Torts‚ however‚ of importance is Negligence. Negligence is the failure to do something a person of ordinary prudence would do. Negligence protect against personal injury‚ damage to property and economic loss. In order to establish negligence four elements must be established. Firstly‚ the plaintiff must prove that a duty of care was owed. Secondly‚ the
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Care management assignment Introduction This essay will be discussing the aspect of role transition in nursing gathered from the nursing and midwifery councils (NMC) the standards of proficiency for pre registration nursing (NMC 2004)‚ the standard aspect I have chosen to discus in this essay is care management. For this assignment I have chosen to analysis the care management skills of delegation‚ delegation has then been link to other skills such like communication and time management. I will
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Child Day Care Services Business Plan Kid’s Community College Executive Summary 1.0 Executive Summary Kid’s Community College® aims to prepare its students to excel as young leaders of tomorrow by combining an exclusive collegiate-based curriculum tailored specifically for children with enhanced‚ first class child care services. Unlike our competitors‚ we offer advanced technology programs‚ after-school tutoring‚ and activities such as arts and crafts‚ dance‚ theatre and gymnastics‚ all in
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Achievement of children and youth in foster care Joanna Bermudez Mercy College Summer 2013 Introduction and Problem Statement Approximately fifty percent of adolescents in this country’s foster care system are graduating from high school each year. In NYS‚ less than forty-four percent of adolescent’s in the foster care system graduate from high school yearly. The outcomes of youth who leave the foster care system between the ages of 18 and 21 are
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