1.1 What is abuse? Abuse is the infringement of an individual’s human and civil rights by another individual or persons. The following is the definition of abuse in The Protection for Persons in Care Act (PPCA). In this statement‚ "abuse" is defined as mistreatment‚ whether physical‚ sexual‚ mental‚ emotional‚ and financial or a combination of any of them‚ that is reasonably likely to cause death or that causes or is reasonably likely to cause serious physical or psychological harm to a person‚
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Confidentiality Confidentiality is an important principle in health and social care because it functions to impose a boundary on the amount of personal information and data that can be disclosed without consent. Confidentiality arises where a person disclosing personal information reasonably expects his or her privacy to be protected‚ such as in a relationship of trust. The relationship between health and social care professionals and their patients/clients centres on trust‚ and trust is dependent
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would be a challenging care due to communication and language barriers. Throughout this care I was able to practice my basic nursing skills and learn the importance of nutrition and hydration‚ especially in elderly patients. E Prior to feeding Mrs. K‚ I was told by my colleague that she doesn’t eat much and it’s difficult to understand her needs. I initially felt nervous and uncomfortable to feed Mrs. K due to my previous observations of other staff members providing care for her. However‚ I carried
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determinants can be divided into two categories: physical determinants and social determinants. These determinants are factors that contribute to a person’s overall state of health‚ and include biological‚ socioeconomic‚ psychological‚ social‚ and behavior factors. Typically‚ the physical determinants are broken down into biology and genetics‚ such as sex and age‚ individual behaviors‚ such as alcohol and drug use or unprotected sex‚ social environment factors like discrimination or income‚ physical environment
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PWCS 22: PRINCIPLES OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT IN ADULT SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS 1.1 IDENTIFY STANDARDS THAT INFLUENCE THE WAY ADULT SOCIAL CARE JOB ROLES ARE CARRIED OUT. Standards that influence the way adult social care job roles are carried out include code of practice‚ regulation‚ minimum standards and national occupational standards. 1.2 EXPLAIN WHY REFLECTING ON WORK ACTIVITIES IS AN IMPORTANT WAY TO DEVELOP OWN KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS Reflecting on own work activity helps a person to identify
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Parliament. Legislation in health and social care is health and safety. You need to ensure that there is always safe practice when providing care or help. There are policies and regulations that you have to follow to make sure you are safe at work as well as service users and others around you‚ this is to help protect the public. An example of legislation is the Care Standards Act 2000‚ regulations are the rules you have to follow‚ where you work an example of a regulation is that nurses or surgeons…
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In Writing for General Communication subject‚ the lecture told us to write an essay. The essay was in the form of procedure text. The requirement was just; the word count was between six hundred and eight hundred. I was confused what topic would I choose. At first I wanted to try making procedure of food but then I thought it would be too simple so at the end I chose about how to live a healthy lifestyle. While I made the essay‚ I made some point about what was the important thing to live a healthy
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Psychology for Social Care Practice (DH3M34) Assessment 2 Case Study (LO.2 and LO.3) In this assessment I am going to be writing a case study on Rose. Rose is the youngest of five children‚ she has one sister and three brothers. Rose has been diagnosed with a rare chromosome deletion on her 22nd chromosome‚ it is called 22q13 deletion syndrome also known as Phelan Mcdermid syndrome after the doctors Katy Phelan and Heather Mcdermid who first discovered this syndrome whilst studying chromosome
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Empowering users of Health and Social Care Services The report that follows is a review of the final report from the LA‚ that I will present in the next team meeting. In the discussion I will refer mostly at the National Standards regarding the administration of medication (current UK standards and current legislation‚ national enquiries). To produce a good report‚ I need to include the risks of medication to service users‚ staff and organisation using examples from our context. In order to achieve
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Question 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.1- Diversity means the difference between people and the values and beliefs that they have‚ there is lots of ways in which people differ‚ for example‚ ability‚ beliefs‚ race‚ religion‚ gender‚ culture‚ the differences in people are what makes an individual and as a care worker it is important to recognise these and respect their individuality to ensure that they feel valued and included‚ if I treated everyone the same or made assumptions or decisions for my service user’s
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