1. What is Palliative Care? (150 words) Palliative Care is a care provided when someone is living with‚ and dying from a fatal chronic condition where the primary goal is maintaining quality of life. It provides special supportive care for anyone who is suffering a life-threatening condition approaching the end of life. Palliative care is for any age‚ those with cancer or any other terminal diagnosis‚ people of any ethnic or cultural background‚ whether they may live in the countryside or the
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Dental Nursing 5234: Unit 302 Written Questions Q1) Please summarise the professional standards of care for dental care for professionals. There are nine principles which every dental professional has to follow: 1 Put patients’ interest first 2 Communicate effectively with patients 3 Obtain valid consent 4 Maintain and protect patients’ information 5 Have a clear and effective complaints procedure 6 Work with colleagues in a way that is in patients’ best interests 7 Maintain‚ develop and
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Elder care in-home care‚ home care‚ senior care Six Tips for Working with Home Care Aides Bringing in an elder care provider to help reduce your caregiving load is a great way to reduce the stress you may experience as well as provide home care companionship and assistance for your parent. Whether you have hired a senior care provider to be a live-in companion or to only make a few visits a week‚ it is important to clarify your expectations and to develop good communication with the home care provider
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Health Care Reform‚ Obama Care Health Care reform in the State of Massachusetts could be viewed by many as an advance toward a better way of live in United States. At the same time many people have oppressed it. I believe that everyone in favor or in disfavor of the health reform of 2006 has had its reasons. Many of those reasons are valid reasons backed by knowledge and experience while others are just an opinions of other people that have been portrait to them‚ while an individuals do not fully
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Answers to Unit 9 1)There are different uses of foster care placements and amongst them the main ones are as follow: *EMERGENCY-where children need to stay somewhere safe for a few nights‚ *SHORT -TERM-cares look after children for a few weeks /months while plans are being made for children’s future‚ *SHORT BREAKS-for disable children‚with special needs or behavioural difficulties who stay for a while with a family so they parents/carers can have a break‚ *REMAND-for young people remanded
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Principles for implementing duty of care in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings 1 Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice (a) What it means to have a duty of care in one’s own work role A duty of care is a legal obligation to all Health and Social carers and professionals who have to act in the best interests of individuals and others‚ also not to act or fail to act in a way that results in harm. This duty of care can be a general implied minimum
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intensity of care. The difference between acute care and chronic care is the duration of times needed for treatment and the approach taken by the medical professionals. The goals of recovery are typically very similar‚ while the maintenance of the conditions can vary greatly. In both of these scenarios there can be a large impact on the patient’s life or lifestyle that must be compensated for along with the treatment for the illness and education for prevention and maintenance. In acute care‚ an individual’s
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Sharing Power Lesson Five: Does Lawmaking Shape Society? What was the name of the bill or law? The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) commonly called the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or "Obamacare". What level of government considered it? Federal Government. What was the purpose of the bill or law? The purpose of the legislation is to assure that all Americans have access to affordable health insurance. What is the history of the bill or law? Did it pass or fail? What steps of
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Acute Care: Care Implementation and Evaluation. This assignment will be based around the care that is implemented and evaluated‚ within a National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust (FT). The focus of the assignment will be to discuss two health problems that a selected patient has and has been admitted to the FT with. The selected patient had been admitted into FT with breathing difficulties and also suffering from dehydration. The assignment will focus upon the goals that are set for the
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The Affordable Care Act (2009) and the Health Security Act (1993) were two attempts made to reform the U.S. healthcare system. In 1993 the Clinton administration fought to better the system and provide comprehensible healthcare coverage to its citizens. This bill however was shot down in the legislative system and never made it into law. Then in 2010 the Obama administration squeezed their updated version of the bill through the House and Senate in a very narrow‚ partisan victory. The reasoning behind
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