Public Health - Unit 12 - Petra P1 Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease‚ prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society‚ organizations‚ public and private‚ communities and individuals" (1920‚ C.E.A. Winslow). This therefore infers public health is the preventing and controlling of disease within communities‚ to prolong life and promote health through organised society. The keys aspects of public health … -Monitoring the
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Mentorship for Health Social Care Practitioner’s Introduction: Mentoring students in clinical practice is an important aspect of nursing. Nurses or mentors consider their profession to be practice based and work hard to ensure that a larger part of learning and assessment takes place in the clinical area. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)‚ 2006 defines the term mentor as‚ the role of the nurse‚ midwife or health visitor who facilitates learning‚ supervises and assesses students in the practice
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HEALTH AND SAFETY IN SOCIAL CARE IT’S NOT JUST A JOBSWORTH We as a sector have to follow many rules and regulations. These are set out by the Government and even the company you will work for. Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 covers many subjects‚ and as a sector we follow this‚ as this not only protects the employer and employee but also the people we provide care for. SHOCKING FAILURES – IT’S WHY WE NEED TO OBEY THE LAW There have been many reports in the press
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TITLE:PHYSIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE TASK 1.OUTLINE THE MAIN ANATOMCIAL FEATURES OF THE HUMAN BODY 1.2.DISCUSS HOW BODY SYSTEMS INTERACT TO ENSURE THE BODY FUNCTIONS AND GROWS TASK 2.1 EXPLAIN NORMAL BODY RESPONSE TO EVERY ACTIVITIES 2.2 DISCUSS HOW BODY RESPONSES ARE EXPLAINED BY CELLULAR AND TISSUE STRUCTURE AND PHYSIOLOGY 2.3 EXPLAIN HOW BODY COORDINATES ITS INTERNAL ACTIVITIES 3.1 EXPLAIN THE RECORDING AND USE OF ROUTINE MEASURES IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 3.2 ASSESS HOW ROUTINE
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Importance of communication in health and social care By: Charles Marco Tambis Topic: Page Importance of communication 1 Formal and informal communication 1 Verbal communicational 2 Non-verbal communication 2 Augmentative and alternate communication (AAC) 3 Two types of Augmentative and alternate communication (AAC) 3-4 Reading 4 Barriers 4-5 Conclusion 5 Importance of communication in Health and Social Care Communication is two or more people conveying to understand
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Promoting diversity within a health and social setting and the effectiveness In this report I am going to outline The Mental Health Act alongside this‚ the procedures and codes of practise and how both of these aim to promote diversity and assessing the effectiveness of these measures in place. The Mental Health Act aims to safeguard the vulnerable‚ by ensuring they are treated fairly and equally by services and given permission to health care‚ for example hospital treatment if required. The
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ntroduction The definition of high quality care has now become enshrined in the Health and Social Care Act 2012 requiring the presence of 3 equally important pillars: • Patient safety • Clinical effectiveness • Patient experience The Department of Health (2003‚ p.19) defines a positive patient experience as: “We want an NHS that meets not only our physical needs but our emotional needs too. This means getting good treatment in a comfortable‚ caring and safe environment‚ delivered in a calm and
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Maya Kumari was married when she was 15 years old. She was 18 years old when she got pregnant It was her 8th month of pregnancy‚ she was happy but didn’t know how life would change into darkness in a second. I still remember the day when the sunny weather turned gloomy with rain showers and lightning. I noticed something horrible was about to happen! I heard a loud crashing noise of the storm‚ and I felt scared. I was a shy ten-year-old‚ and I had never experienced any storm before‚ so I did not
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WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE OR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S SETTING Working in partnership is the process whereby members of different professions or agencies work together to provide integrated health and/or social care for the benefit of service users. Service users access quicker and better access to services‚ early identification and intervention‚ and also a reduced need for more specialist services. In my role as a manager‚ I work closely with social workers who provide great
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Assignment 1: • INTRODUCING WRITING FOR COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL ACTION In my first Semester of Master of Arts in Community Development in the subject Unit of COD545 Community Development Theory and Practice I need to work on Assignment on Volunteer service provider at Community development organization. I am trying to contact and build relationships with‚ NGOs and convincing to them for volunteer service which I can provide to them during their community outreach project implemented for the development
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