allow him to take vitals‚ treat wounds‚ administer some injections under the supervision of physicians‚ and in a hospital setting monitor patients on catheters and oxygen provisions. Additionally‚ Jerry is a medical assistant and is a multi-skilled health care professional who assists with administrative‚ clerical‚ and technical support in relation to helping the physician. The scope of Jerry’s training is limited to all of the above mentioned duties and none of them mention that he can administer medications
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Principles of safeguarding and protection in health and social care Level 2 Unit Ref A/601/8574 Unit Credit Value 3 1. Know how to recognise signs of abuse 1.1 Define the following types of abuse: Physical Sexual Emotional/psychological Financial Institutional Self neglect Neglect by other Physical abuse is an act of another party involving contact intended to cause feelings of physical pain‚ injury‚ or other physical suffering or bodily harm. Sexual abuse is sexual activity
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Understand Health and Safety in Social Care Settings – Unit 208 1.1 List legalisation relating to general health and safety in a social care setting The settings in which you work are generally covered by the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HASAWA). This Act has been updated and supplemented by many sets of regulations and guidelines‚ which extended it‚ support it or explain it. The regulations most likely to affect your workplace are shown in the following diagram. The Health and Safety at
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medication in social care settings OUTCOME 1 1. The main legislation is the Medicines Act 1968. there area vast amount more that have a direct impact from that in the social care setting‚ these are as follows; ➢ The medicines act 1968 ➢ The misuse of drugs act 1971 ➢ The Children act 1981 ➢ The data protection act 1998 ➢ The care standards act 2000 ➢ The health and social care act 2001 ➢ The health act 2000 ➢ Health and safety at work
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P3 Factors that influence equality in health and social care This report is looking at how social‚ cultural and political factors that affects the equality of opportunity and how discriminatory may happen in a health care setting. I have chosen the Rushey Green Medical centre to see how this may occur in that type of environment. These factors have great influence on equality of opportunity because they all play a part in how each individual are seeing and treated. They ensure that everyone is seen
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Principles of safeguarding and protection in Health and Social Care Unit 204 Level 2 NDAQ number A/601/8574 101 Know how to recognise signs of abuse Definition of physical abuse Physical abuse is non-accidental pain or injury inflicted on a service user by a health or care worker. This can include hitting‚ shaking‚ rough treatment or inappropriate use of restraint. Definition of Sexual Abuse Sexual abuse usually refers to any sexual activity that is unwanted and is inflicted by physical
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house has stairs. That’s discrimination against someone because of their disability and that’s where the DDA would come into act. The DDA covers mental illness as well as physical conditions and because of this it covers a wide range of people who may need to use the act and who are eligible to use the act.
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Unit 10 – Discussion I have analysed and calculated the results of my research questionnaire I will now discuss upon the effectiveness of my questionnaire and if in fact I have supported or contradicted my research hypothesis “Teenage girls aged 15-19 years old are unaware of the signs and symptoms and consequences of anorexia nervosa.” Explanation of findings In my second question‚ I asked the participants to define anorexia in the best way that they could. Reflecting on the question‚
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Social care is conveyed by a wide range of associations and experts‚ and inside families and societies. Those that provide social care are the ones that work in the health and social care sector such as social workers‚ nurses‚ registered managers‚ supervisors and occupational therapist. Many people who provide social care aren’t paid. “Carers provide all sorts of practical support: help cooking meals‚ help with the washing‚ just keeping someone company; they also help with benefits and other financial
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The communication cycle was discovered by Argyle in 1972. The cycle consists of six areas‚ all of these six areas are important during communication‚ if any of these areas of the cycle are disrupted then the receiver would not understand or may interpret the message wrongly. The first stage to this cycle is to have a starting idea or the code of the message; in this stage the mind processes on how the sentence is going to be told‚ such as the tone of the voice and also what words will need to be
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