INTRODUCTION Main barriers to accessing health and social care. Barriers mean the difficult people face to access a service. There is wide range of help available by health and social care to people however accessing it can be frustrating and difficult. This barrier occurs for different reason‚ and there are different ways of accessing health and social care. (Cited in Hetherington A‚ Irvine J‚ Rasheed A‚ - BTEC first Level 2 Health and Social Care (Hodder 2012) ISBN 9781444111903 pg 283)
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Describe how incorrect handling and moving techniques can damage the skin. Identify a range of interventions that can reduce the risk of skin breakdown and pressure sores. Describe the changes to an individual skin conditions that should be reported. It is important to avoid or prevent the vulnerable areas or where sores has already formed. Regularly changing position or moving helps to prevent pressure sores developing in a vulnerable areas or to relieve already existing ones.
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BTEC Health and Social Care Level 2 Unit 11: The Importance of Diet on Health Linda Banjo. Discuss how the component of a balanced diet contribute to an individual’s health at different life stage As individuals we all go through different stages in life and having a balanced diet at every stage is very important due to the body’s requirements in order for the body to perform very well. As infants our diets depends on breast milk because it supplies the child with all the necessary nutrients and
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and family as its all private and confidential. 1/2 Relationship in health and social care setting comes in three types policy making‚ adminidtrive and the hand on staff working relationship. 2/1 Enable you to know your job role and responsibility. If you have had no training you could ask your team leader or manager to show you are ask for full training‚ so you don’t put yourself or other at risk of injury. 2/2 there are care plans in place which I read for the needs of the client and commotion
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Engage in personal development in health‚ social care or children’s and young peoples setting (SHC 32) 1.Understand what is required for competence in own work role 1.1 Describe the duties and responsibilities of own work role. In my current role as a senior care assistant it’s my duty to maintain standards of care within the organisation by following guidelines set out from the organisations that inspect and govern the home. As a senior/shift leader it is my duty to ensure that staff
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CU1532 promote equality and inclusion in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings 1.1Diversity: Diversity is where no two people are the same‚ we all have characteristics that make us unique: age‚ culture; disability (mental‚ learning‚ physical)‚ education‚ ethnicity‚ gender‚ language(s) spoken‚ marital/partnered status‚ physical appearance‚ race‚ religious beliefs‚ sexual orientation. Equality: Equality mean no matter how different we are we have the right to be treated the
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asked me to check policies and procedures relating to health‚ safety and security to see how they link legislation and guidelines. The main points of the following pieces of legislation and how there have a positive effect on the service delivery within your work experience setting. COSHH stands for control of substances hazardous to health regulation. COSHH is for using chemicals or other hazardous substances at work can put people’s health at risk so the law requires employers to control exposure
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pregnant women carry on drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes even though they know that it can harm their selves and damage the health of the unborn baby. Researchers from Deakin University in Australia‚ alongside researchers from Norway‚ have found out that mothers who eat unhealthy food while they are pregnant‚ have more of a chance to have children with mental health problems. Pregnant women should have a healthy diet because this will keep the baby healthy. Also‚ they should exercise regularly
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P4‚M1–Anatomy and physiology by Sushoma Nahar Syed AA29906 My two chosen systems I will be writing about is the cardiovascular system and Digestive system. (P4) the digestion system The digestive system is also known as the alimentary canal from the mouth to the anus. Digestion is a process in which insoluble food is broken down into particles which are made into soluble particles enough to be absorbed and to be used by the body and into the bloodstream. These soluble particles are major
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This assignment will describe how legislation‚ policies and procedures are used to promote the safety of individuals in a health and social care setting. Data protection act 1998 By holding data of the students and the staff at Portland College‚ this act is very important to keeping the individuals’ information safe and secure. At Portland College there are many ways in which the college have their student’s details‚ such as written on paper‚ stored on databases on the computer and also in records
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