tissue damage. Shearing Sliding or slumping down the bed/chair can damage the skin and deeper layers of tissue. Friction Poor moving and handling methods can remove the top layers of skin. Repeated friction can increase your risk. 5.Things we can do to reduce pressure sours and ulcers Identifying individuals at high risk for pressure ulcers. Ensuring that immobile patients change their position at least every two hours to relieve pressure. Using items that can help reduce pressure caused by
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basic services and died when medical care could have saved them. Unfortunately‚ it’s not only the uninsured who suffer in this desperate situation. Of the more than one million‚ five-hundred thousand bankruptcies filed in the United States before President Barack Obama’s administration‚ about half were a result of medical bills; of those‚ three-quarters of filers actually had health insurance (Pibel 1). On March 23 of 2010‚ the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act became law. Also known as “Obamacare
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Duty of Care Duty of care refers to the obligations and responsibilities that people in authority have for those in their charge. Whether a duty of care is owed depends in part on the position of the person in authority‚ particularly his or her status as an expert with superior knowledge. Proof that a duty of care has been breached generally leads to a court awarding damages to the injured party to compensate for financial loss. Duty of care in child care Obviously people who work in child
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Nursing Care Plan As soon as the history and head-to-toe assessment were completed nursing priorities focused on alleviating pain‚ preventing infection and urinary obstruction‚ and providing information about disease process and treatments. Physical assessment data included: vital signs B/P 87/51‚ HR 110‚ T 99.7 F; weight 160lb‚ height 5’8”. MK presented to the ED with acute severe right colicky flank pain that radiated into the abdomen and lower back‚ guarding his abdomen‚ and moaning. MK rated
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In Home Care and Depression Depression is a serious condition that requires professional intervention. While we all feel down from time to time‚ depression goes well beyond these occasional feelings of being down in the dumps or having the blues. According to the National Library of Medicine‚ clinical depression "is a mood disorder in which feelings of sadness‚ loss‚ anger‚ or frustration interfere with everyday life for weeks or more." Over a quarter of all suicides are a direct result of depression
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experiences‚ personal attitudes and beliefs to influence me in the way I support my service user’s. I also take a good look at myself and evaluate the effectiveness of my work‚ taking into consideration the views of service users I support‚ I think this is important so I can make changes to how I work that lead to continuous improvements in the way I provide my job role. I have been in care work now for a period of 30 years and have supported service users with an arrange of different individual
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Institutional Care and its Effects Bowlby studied institutional care and its effects in the 1930s and 1940s. He studied children being brought up in orphanages and residential nurseries which lacked maternal care. Bowlby believed that the relationship between child and mother during the first 5 years of a child’s life‚ is at its most crucial to socialisation for which he called the critical period. He claimed that if no attachment was formed (privation) or there was a disruption between the attachment
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Duty of Care 1.1 The term duty of care refers to the duties and responsibilities that someone in charge and authority has to those they are caring for. In the area of childcare and early years‚ teachers‚ nursery workers and other care workers have a duty of care to the children they are looking after and are responsible for. There is a general definition for duty of care as well as different definitions in greater detail. For example moral and legal duties of care. Legal duty of care is where
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The standard of care is an anthropomorphic concept of justice. It is the level of consideration a reasonable individual would do in a particular condition. As a general test‚ the standard of care required is an objective one‚ which is of a ‘reasonable person’. The reasonable person manages the inquiry: What might a sensible individual have anticipated in the specific situation? In this manner the litigant is required to take as much care as a reasonable person would have taken in his position. Be
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Hospice Care 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Definition 1.1.1 Hospice Care Hospice care refers to an exceptional program that offers care services to individuals who are fatally ill and their family members. It is offered to patients who have been acknowledged by doctors as having completely exhausted all forms of cure there is and they are destined to die. These services include mental‚ emotional‚ spiritual physical and medical support which are aimed at ensuring maximum comfort and hope to the
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