Home healthcare workers are a huge asset to the community‚ and not everyone realizes just what they can do other than assist aging seniors who need extensive care in the home. People of all ages can face sudden medical challenges‚ and if you are enduring one right now‚ you may not realize that home care assistance is available to help you through it. Here are a few ways that home health assistance can benefit you or someone you love of any age. 1. Hands-on Teaching of Medication Injection Technique
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£5.5 billion‚ is a significant figure‚ and that is how much the home care market is valued in England (Funding and costs – commissioning home care for older people‚ 2014). A substitute to our service may be care homes as this may have been there only option available if there is no one there to provide them with some help‚ on the other side care homes are extremely expensive in the UK‚ they cost on average around £30‚000 yearly (Limited‚ 2011)‚ which some
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especially those who suffer any chronic condition‚ and those who need to stay in a nursing homes or received home care. Why do you believe this issue is so significant? (Include sources to back up your statements) There will be a shortage of professionals that are trained to care for elderly in the future. According to a data collected 10 years from now there will be about 10‚000
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SOCIAL CARE THEORY FOR PRACTICE (OUTCOME 1) ASSESSMENT 1 (1500 words approx.) (12th October 2012) Coco J Hendry Page 1 Introduction Page 2 – 5 Assessment Page 6 Conclusion Page 7 Reference/Bibliography 1 The following essay will demonstrate my understanding of the importance and relevance of values to social care by explaining how social care values and principles influence practice. I will then explain what relationship my value base has with social care values
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most prefer to work in: Location A _________NHS_________________________________________________ Location B ____hospital______________________________________________________ Industry of work interested in Private home Care Home NHS Hospital / Medical Clinic Eligibility for work Are you eligible to work in the UK: ( Y / N ) yes Full Time hours (upwards of 35 hours per week) ( Y / N )yes
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This essay will discuss my values and those used in social care practice‚ sociological and psychological influences regarding discrimination and anti-discrimination. The meaning of discrimination and anti-discriminatory practice and to identify and describe three pieces of legislation designed to promote anti-discriminatory practice. Values and beliefs are about what a person finds important to you; what a person believes to be right and wrong. Values are usually learned by primary socialisation
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I currently work in home care and find it to be a bit challenging at times for reason that you are always on your own but overall it’s a great experience and I really enjoy it . I entered into this position knowing that it would be a challenge but didn’t realize how challenging it can really be. Something I would like to change about my job is the orientation period since there really isn’t one given to the new hires. Since most of the new hires are recent graduates this can be very challenging
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Professional Healthcare Service and Practice 1 John Hutton a Politian (2010) once said “For too long nurses have been undervalued‚ restricted in what they could do‚ with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long‚ nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back – both professionally as well as financially”‚ the two acts came after this was said. Having good ethics and attitude towards the Healthcare system will have a better result in the care field and how it is positive
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Standard of care and Medical practice Jose Konde HLT-305 January 25‚ 2015 Everyday Health care professionals are entrusted with people’s health care and‚ therefore‚ their lives. The nation does not give this responsibility softly; it comes with the reasonable conditions that Heath care providers‚ who are the ones that the patients trust‚ obey by rigid professional‚ ethical and legal standards. The word scope of practice is known as the rules‚ the regulations‚ and the boundaries within which
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How essential is morality to health care practice? Medical professionalism in a commercialized health care market --THE DEBATE- Honesty in Medicine:Should Doctors Taking Non practicing allowance in a Research institution indulge in private practice .Tell the Truth?(Interestingly this always triggers a debate on the social networking websites esp facebook with many supporting for /against this private practice of doctors.)Medicine is a noble profession.To some‚ medicine is more than a profession
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