I am writing this report to explain how recent laws promote anti discriminatory practise in an health and social care environment. The first act I am going to talk about is the equality Act 2012.this act promotes anti discriminatory practise as is this act it protects people that are living in the UK from any form of harm or discrimination. These are the 9 characteristic that this act covers: age disability gender reassignment marriage and civil partnership pregnancy and maternity
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1.1 There are many different reasons why people communicate in adult social care‚ as well as communication being between varieties of different people within this setting. For example‚ it could be conversation between support workers‚ support workers to managers or other health care professional and anyone communicating with service users including family. Communication can also come in many different forms such as verbal‚ non-verbal‚ body language and facial expressions as well as others. One main
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Shawar Ali 10CHL - Level 2 Health and Social Care Unit 3- P1 - 29th February 2016 P1: A description of different forms of verbal and non-verbal communication. Verbal: (what is it and how will you use it in Livingstone Road Residence) ● clear speech - is when you are pronouncing words correctly and sounding the ends of words clearly. In Livingstone Road Residence we would use clear speech with those who have hearing impairments so they can have a better understanding of what I’m saying
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LO1 Understand perceptions of health‚ disability‚ illness and behaviour 1.1 analyse concepts of health‚ disability‚ illness and behaviour in relation to users of health and social care services 1.2 assess how perceptions of specific needs have changed over time 1.3 analyse the impact of legislation‚ social policy‚ society and culture on the ways that services are made available for individuals with specific needs LO2 Understand how health and social care services and systems support
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Research Methods in Health and Social Care Critical review of quantitative research Majid‚S.Foo‚S.Luyt‚B.Ahang‚X.Theng‚YL.Chang‚YK.Mokhtar‚IA.(2011) Adopting and evidence-based practice in clinical decision making: nurses’ perceptions‚ knowledge ‚ and barriers. Journal of the Medical Library Association 99(3) PP229-236. This essay will be a critical review on the study conducted by Majid et al (2011). The article which is titled ‘Adopting evidence-based practice in clinical decision making: Nurses’
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responses when dealing with two particular incidents or emergencies in a health or social care setting. M3: Discuss health‚ safety or security concerns arising from a specific incident or emergency in a health or social care setting. D2: Justify responses to a particular incident or emergency in a health or social care setting. Emergency: Earthquake An emergency is an unexpected situation that poses immediate risk to health‚ property or environment. Emergencies require immediate and direct actions
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Introduction to Duty of Care in Health‚ Social Car or Children and Young Peoples Settings UNIT 5 1.1 Being a support worker means I have a responsibility of duty of care‚ which I am to adhere to at all times. This responsibility is a legal obligation as part of my job role. If these standards of care are not met I can put the service user/s in jeopardy of harm. The duty of care should be my self acting in the best interest of the individual at all times which should not be detrimental to the
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Introduction Throughout this assignment I am going to be looking into the health and social topic of communicable and non-communicable diseases. I will be investigating into various aspects of two specific diseases. A high level of knowledge will be demonstrated with a detailed description of both communicable and non-communicable diseases as well as an understanding of epidemiology. I will then find a communicable and non-communicable disease example and describe the biological basis of each disease
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Unit 2: equality diversity and rights in health and social LO2: discriminatory practice in health and social care Objectives: All learners should be able to define basis of discrimination. All learners should be able to explain basis of discrimination Most learners should be able to demonstrate discriminatory practice Some learners should be able to describe effects of discriminatory practice. Basis of discriminatory Culture A person’s culture is important to them and identifies
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strained social service sector contributed to the growing number of vulnerable populations? The rise in prevalence of chronic conditions is a tricky situation to get a handle on because these conditions have no cure‚ though they can be treated. Chronic conditions play a major role in health as 7 out of 10 deaths each year are linked to these conditions and is much more prevalent for minorities and poor. Prevention is possible‚ but it requires a lot of effort and management and a health lifestyle
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