1.1 Define the term ’duty of care’ Duty of care is a responsibility to put the safety and interest of service users first‚ ensuring that they are treated with dignity and respect. 1.2 Describe how the duty of care affects own work role Knowing your duty of care and the importance of practicing it‚ gives you a clear guide on how you should behave at work and how you must consider those you work with. Your duty of care is closely linked to protection and safeguarding. You have to keep the service
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Health and social care guide to communication Communication is an interactive two way process of giving and receiving a message‚ such as exchanging ideas or information it can be a mixture of verbal and non-verbal and formal and informal methods. Communication is important to master to become an effective health and social care professional because you need to be able to listen to people to understand their needs because if you don’t listen to them properly wrong information can be taken also
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is one type of discrimination. The definition of culture in simple terms is someone’s background‚ including their beliefs and their religion. Someone who could receive culture discrimination could be that of a Muslim male. For example in a health and social care setting of a doctors surgery‚ a white British doctor may give the Muslim bad treatment‚ for example not prescribing them with medication due to their belief and the Muslims religion‚ which would be discriminatory behaviour on the doctors behalf
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Unit 3- health and wellbeing Definitions: Health and wellbeing meanings come in three forms-holistic‚ positive and negative. Health and wellbeing’s meaning cannot be fixed because health means different things to different people‚ and your intellectual thinking of health can change from day to day; depending on your experiences you go through. Literally the word health comes from an old English word meaning “the state of being hale‚ sound or whole‚ in body mind or soul”. This tells us that our
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ASSIGNMENT 204 Introduction to duty of care in health‚ social care or children ’s and young people ’s settings Task A Dear friend I have heard that you would like to work as a care worker and need to know more about “duty of care”. I wish to help and want to try clarify the term to you as much as I can. “Duty of care” is a phrase used to describe the obligation in your role as a care worker. You owe duty of care to your patients/service users‚ your colleagues‚ your employer‚ yourself and
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BTEC National Diploma in Health and Social Care Assignment 1‚ Unit 19 Sociology‚ Georgina Reed Introduction In this assignment I will be explaining the concept of an unequal society‚ be describing social inequalities that exist in society‚ also I will be discussing the impact of social inequalities on groups in society. Finally I will evaluate the impact of social inequalities in society. P1 We live in a society that is very unequal‚ in a way that people get treated differently depending
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PRESENTATION AIMED AT SOCIAL CARE WORKERS 163830011176000 Bi. Define direct and indirect discrimination. Direct discrimination is intended by an individual usually due to a person’s background culture‚ personality‚ race‚ disability‚ gender‚ religion‚ sexual orientation and age. Indirect discrimination is when there is an organisation that applies a provision or a practice which disadvantages people of a particular group defined by‚ race‚ disability‚ gender‚ religion‚ sexual orientation and
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1 Sandra Hanson NC40163 Assignment five Sanmar2010@live.co.uk Health & Social Care 5.1 Analyse the social problems resulting from the availability of cheap alcohol. For a number of reasons the price of alcohol is cheap‚ partly because of the failure of taxes to keep up with inflation and the increased efficiency in producing and distributing of the alcohol. The relaxed control for advertising‚ pricing and promotion has also contributed to the availability of cheap alcohol‚ resulting
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Cambridge TECHNICALS OCR LEVEL 3 CAMBRIDGE TECHNICAL CERTIFICATE/DIPLOMA IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SUPPORT USE OF MEDICATION IN SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS M/505/7779 LEVEL 3 UNIT 33 GUIDED LEARNING HOURS: 90 UNIT CREDIT VALUE: 15 PROMOTE POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR OF MEDICATION IN SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS M/505/7779 LEVEL 3 UNIT 33 AIM AND PURPOSE OF THE UNIT In the social care sector practitioners are often responsible for supporting service users with their medication. This support can take a variety of forms
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B Your work role Bi Describe the terms and conditions of your employment as set out in your contract of employment or employment agreement The terms and conditions of your employment are a statement and instruction of what the employer’s expect of their staff and your job description. Employer’s expect their staff to read and follow the policy and procedures that the home have. to attend all training and update they have and to attend supervision and any obserations. Bii Describe the information
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