Understand potential hazards in Health and Social Care Assignment Introduction In this unit I will explain six potential hazards in a Health and Social Care setting. These hazards in the Health and Social Care setting can all affect the people working in that environment; there are a lot of hazards which can be found in every surface of the setting. In a residential or day care setting‚ much is done to ensure that service users‚ and therefore staff as well‚ are protected from harm. The group of users
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Principles of Safeguarding and Protection in Health and Social Care‚ Unit 5. There are many forms of abuse but are usually classified under five main headings‚ physical‚ sexual‚ psychological‚ financial and institutional. Signs of possible abuse can come in physical forms‚ such as bruises‚ cuts‚ burn marks‚ etc; emotional signs like flinching‚ crying and any other changes in the normal behaviour of the client. Although these are signs of abuse it is in no way conclusive evidence of such. Warning
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A possible influence on dietary intake could be diabetes; its full name is diabetes mellitus. It is a condition where insulin is not being produced by the pancreas or it is not being produced in sufficient amounts or even the body cannot use insulin properly. There are two types of diabetes IDDM which is commonly known as type 1 this is the most severe type of diabetes and is treated with insulin injections. MIDDM is known as type 2 diabetes and is less serious it can be treated with diet or tablets
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P1 I am going to identify and explain six potential hazards within a health or social care setting and discuss the health‚ safety and security risks to the service users arising from the hazards I identify. A hazard is something that could cause harm and a risk is the chance‚ high or low that someone could be harmed by that hazard. A health risk is a risk leading to an illness‚ a safety risk is a risk leading to a personal injury or damage to equipment and buildings and a security risk is a risk
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-Describe how practitioners should apply values of care in health or social care service In this task I will describe how practitioners should apply values of care within a health or social care service. Care values are standards that should be met within a health and social care setting; they are designed to improve the quality of care which is given to people. Promoting care values within a care setting. The care values which are applied in a health care setting consist of; maintaining confidentiality
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Eva Rands UNIT 2 P5: Describe how anti-discriminatory practice is promoted in health and social care settings. M3: Discuss the difficulties that may arise when implementing anti-discriminatory practice in health and social care settings. D2: Justify ways of overcoming difficulties that may arise when implementing anti-discriminatory practices in health and social care settings. I am going to be explaining how anti-discriminatory practices are promoted in a care home (P5 – black text). I am then
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Effective Communications in Health and Social Care Within this essay‚ the role of effective communication and interpersonal interaction in a health and social care context will be explained. It will also be linked to experiences in work placements for example‚ may be at a care home for adults with learning disabilities‚ and physical disabilities. The five contexts which will be researched are; one to one communication‚ group communication‚ multi agency working‚ multi professional working also communication
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Unit 18 Assess the Individual in a Health and Social Care Setting As a part of my role I go out and assess potential residents that are looking to be admitted to the Home where I work. The usual process is that someone telephones or visits‚ whether it be a Social Worker‚ a family member‚ a Health Care Professional from Hospital or the perspective resident themselves. We have an assessment form for this stage we call a Resident Enquiry form‚ basic details are asked of the potential resident and contact
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South Thames College Unit 2: Equality and Diversity Bianca Palas P2P3M1 | 1319936 Report by: Bianca Palas Aim: My aim for this report is to be able to identify the discriminatory practices based on three different true-to-life scenarios. I also intend on exploring into further details the possible effects of the discriminatory practices that has been done on the elderly people involved in the three different situations. The three major types of discriminatory practice I will be focusing
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P5-explain the concept of homeostasis P6- follows guidelines to interpret collected data for heart rate‚ breathing rate and temperature before and after a standard period of exercise Homeostasis Conditions in the body have to be controlled with narrow limits. This is called homeostasis. These conditions include water content‚ ion content‚ body temperature and blood glucose concentration. The thermoregulatory centre is the part of the brain that monitors and controls body temperature. The pancreas
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