safety working environment for both the service-users as well as the staff working within the care home. Taking standard precautions to avoid and prevent infection and cross-infection. I start by first washing my hands before and after undertaking any task that involves coming in contact with the service users‚ I do on the spot risk assessment‚ wore protective clothing like the disposable aprons and gloves‚ ensure that these protective clothes are removed and replaced with clean ones after interacting
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[pic] Unit4222-229: Undertake agreed pressure area care Outcome 1: Understand the anatomy and physiology of the skin in relation to pressure area care 1. Pressure ulcers‚ also known as bed sores or pressure sores are injuries of the skin and underlying tissue. They appear when the affected area of skin is under too much pressure. Due to the pressure the blood flow is disrupted‚ the area does not irrigate‚ therefore nutrients and oxygen do not reach the skin cells. The skin then breaks
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Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care (Adults) for England (QCF) Assignment 6: Unit 6: The Role of the Worker Learning Outcome 1: Working relationships How does a working relationship differ from a personal relationship? 1.1 A working relationship is different because of boundaries‚ professional codes of conduct and employer policies and procedures. In a working relationstip
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Unit 19 SusanBeedle The Principles of Infection Prevention and Control Performance Criteria 1. Understand roles and responsibilities in the prevention and control of infections 1.1 Explain employees’ roles and responsibilities in relation the prevention and control of infection. It is everybody’s duty to prevent any infection and cross
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Code of Practise The purpose of Code of Practise is a written document that is an agreement method of working and dealing with situations; the Code of Practise is for care workers‚ like the GP‚ to have a good standard for good practise in care settings for patients; the Codes of Practise is a method to complete the rules‚ principals and standards for a care worker‚ like a GP‚ when talking to a client during an appointment. However‚ if a care worker manages to break the Code of Practise they will
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Description Within my college course iam doing my placement in an elderly care home. The unit I’m in tends to be more frail elderly clients. Due to the data protection act 1998 I will be changing names of the clients nursing staff and location to safeguard their confidentially. It is also complies with the NMC 2012 “you must respect people’s right to confidentiality” (NMC2012). Within the home there is an elderly gentleman called Alec‚ Alec has osteoarthritis and uses a wheelchair his mobility
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Page 1 Assessment Criteria- Unit 142 Develop health and safety risk management policies‚ procedures and practices in health and social care or children and young people’s settings. Outcome 1 – 1.1/1.2 Legislation is a law that has been passed by a legislative body such as parliament. The legislation framework is one that is used by all professionals when working with or alongside children and families. All settings must have policies and procedures in place. A policy complies with the law and can
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UNIT 12 PRINCIPLES OF DIVERSITY‚ EQUALITY AND INCLUSION IN ADULT SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS. 1) Understand the importance of diversity‚ equality and inclusion 1.1) Explain what is meant by :- Diversity- recognises that all though people have thing in common they are also different in many ways. Diversity therefore consists of visible and non-visible factors which include personal characteristics such as backgrounds culture‚ by recognising and understanding our individual differences and
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Reflective Account of My Day at Work Yesterday I started my day at work at 7:30 am as I was rotted for an early shift as a duty manager for that day. I am following three weeks rolling rota with my colleagues from Senior Management Team (SMT). First of my responsibilities determined by Health and Safety at Work Act as well as our own Signing in Book Policy was to sign in the signing in book. This will ensure that it is known that I am in the building. All the staff coming on duty is required to
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Goods/Stock purchased or sold being returned is quite a common practice in business. This may be on account of a number of reasons like defects in goods‚ quality not matching the requirement for which the buyer purchased it‚ the buyer not needing the stock‚ etc. This happens both in case of goods purchased as well as goods sold by the organisation. Where the goods sold are being returned we call it "Sales Returns" and where goods purchased are being returned we call it "Purchase Returns"
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