Standard 8 - Understanding health and safety in adult social care settings Standard purpose and aims This standard is aimed at those who are interested in‚ or new to‚ working in a social care setting. It introduces knowledge and understanding of areas of health and safety required to work in a social care setting. Main area Roles and responsibilities relating to health and safety in the work setting/situation Outcome: 1.1 Be aware of key legislation relating to health and safety in your work setting/situation
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Promote person centred approaches in health and social care 1.0 Understand the application of person centred approaches in health and social care 1.2 Evaluate the use of care plans in applying person centred values. Care plans outlines every piece of information known about each individual person‚ from allergies to what hair colour they have. All medical information and next of kin etc. When done properly you should be able to read each care plan and gain inside knowledge into each and every person’s
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Self-referral – this includes a person specifically requesting for or obtaining a care service for themselves. The exception to this definition is the point at which a parent orchestrates access for their youngster‚ who is under 16 years of age. It becomes clear that a five year old can’t make an arrangement for themselves. (Professional referral – this happens when a health or social care professional refers a person who has come to see them to another health or social care proficient.) (Third party referral
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to create a good atmosphere. You need to make the other person feel relaxed and happy to talk to you. There will need to be some sort of relationship established before someone will feel comfortable to talk to you about their personal issues. For example in a profession like counselling‚ the service user will need to meet and become acquainted with the counsellor before they will feel at ease and ready to open up. In some health or social care settings‚ such a counselling‚ you may have a mentor whom
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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 race religion and belief sex sexual orientation If any person or organisation
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P1: Explain the function of research in health and social care Research can be defined as a process of collecting information about a specific topic for a purpose. The importance of research in Health and Social Care is very high. Research can take days‚ months or even years. Its aim is not only to identify in depth information but as well to find out the amount of information that is already known. Through research we can have a better understanding of what are the service user`s needs and find
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Text messaging is another form of communication that help communication to be effective in health and social care settings. However‚ in health and social care setting‚ service providers tend to send lots of reminding text messages via email to remind service users about their appointment with the doctor or the nurses. In the event of text messaging‚ health and social care professionals can use it in the context of both 1-1 and group. So‚ this could be between colleagues and between professional and
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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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needs and feelings of other people (Skillsyouneed‚ No date). In simple terms it is treating people with respect‚ fairness and consistency (Martin‚ Charlesworth and Henderson 2010) Communication takes place in many different contexts within Health and Social Care such as; one
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Communication is a very important aspect of health and social care. There are four very important things that need to be taken into consideration to make sure communication with anyone is successful. The four key aspects are to prevent misunderstanding‚ meet individual needs‚ build a relationship‚ and developing self-esteem. Any misunderstanding can be prevented by clear speech‚ appropriate language‚ matching verbal and non-verbal communication‚ checking understanding and asking questions. A good
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