Health and Safety. Introduction The quality of health and safety of the environment is greatly affected by the environment itself‚ never more so than in the health care setting‚ where patients and clients may be more vulnerable than in there own homes. Florence Nightangale suggested that patients in health care settings may be harmed just by being there. Health and Safety commission (1992) places a general duty on employers to ensure the health and safety of employees. Infection Control
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Unit 5: Principles of safeguarding and protectionin health and social care settings 1.1 & 1.2 Physical abuse is a deliberate use of physical force that results in bodily injury pain or impairments. Sgns of physical abuse can be burns and scalds‚ marks on the skin consistent with being slapped‚ scratched‚ bitten or pinched.Sexual abuse is direct or indirect involvementin sexual activity without valid consent. Signs of sexual abuse could be sexual transmitted disease‚unexplained crying and distress
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Communication in Health‚ Social Care or Children’s and Young People’s Settings Unit aim: This unit explores the central importance of communication in such settings‚ and ways to meet individual needs and preferences in communication. It also considers issues of confidentiality. Credit value-3 Level 3 This workbook covers the following elements: Learning outcomes: There are four learning outcomes to this unit1. Understand why effective communication is important in the work setting 2. Be able
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RISK ASSESSMENT: What are the hazards? | Who might be harmed and how? | What are you already doing? | Do you need to do anything else to manage the risk? | Action by whom? | Fire | -Visitors and staff. | -Carry out fire procedures every month – fire exits‚ fire blankets‚ fire extinguishers. | -Put more signs up and make sure everyone’s aware. | -Fire marshal and all staff. | Lifting heavy objects | -Staff may hurt their backs. | -Teach employees the best way to lift heavy objects and displaying
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Principles of Health & Social care and based on the ABC Care Homes case study‚ this essay would explain how the principles of support are applied in a care home setting as well as outline the procedures that could be used in protecting service users and colleagues as well from harm while analysing the benefits accruable to a adopting a person-centred approach when dealing with services users. More so‚ the essay would explain ethical dilemmas as well as the implementation of policies and codes of practice
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People use different ways to communicate with other people‚ depending on the situation in a health and social care setting. Informal is mostly used between people who know each other very well and formal for individuals who do not know others to well or have not met before. People who are expected to talk in a formal language in a health and social care setting are the care workers. Care workers should ensure they know the difference between the two different conversational languages and use the
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want to tell them. We communicate to pass on information‚ whether it is to chat with a friend‚ pass on information to a college or engage a service user through their given form of communication. In a social care setting communication with a service user is an integral part of their care. If a service user does not understand what is being said to them or vice versa it can lead to misunderstandings and serious problems. It will also affect the wellbeing of the service user and can lead to
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Bullet point 1: Health&well-being: Health and well-being can change over time and vary between different cultures and life stages. Health and well-being can be described as the absence of physical illness‚ disease and mental distress. This is a negative definition of health and well-being. Health and well-being can be described as the achievement and maintenance of physical fitness and mental stability. This is a positive definition of health and well-being. Health and well-being as a result
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necessary for a plaintiff to prove a negligence case. The four elements necessary to prove a negligence case are duty of care‚ breach of that duty‚ injury‚ and causation. The first requirement in establishing negligence is for a plaintiff to prove the existence of a legal relationship between himself or herself and the defendant. Duty is defined as a legal obligation of care‚ performance‚ or observation imposed on one to safeguard the rights of others. This duty‚ for example‚ can arise from a relationship
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Health & Social Care NVQs Legislation England Legislation Information (England) Introduction In this document you will find an overview of some of the Government Policy and legislation which has an impact on workers in health and social care settings. You will be able to identify the legislation that most affects the work you do‚ and will have a broad understanding of the International‚ European and UK Government policy that has an impact upon the way we must work. Plans for genuine partnership
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