Standard 1 Role of the health and social care worker | Questions: |1.1 Know your main responsibilities to an individual you support | What are your main responsibilities to the individuals you support and in your role? 1. Maintain contact with the clients to make sure that they are alright. 2. Prompt clients to live independently and maintain a tenancy. 3. Supporting
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CU254 Causes and Spread of Infection 1. Understand the causes of infection. 1.1 Identify the differences between bacteria‚ viruses‚ fungi and parasites. Bacteria – a single cell micro-organism that gets its nutrition from its surroundings and can only be seen under a microscope. Viruses - are disease producing agents far smaller than bacteria. They are enclosed in a protein coating which makes them more difficult to destroy. Fungi – are included in the plant kingdom but are quite different
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of higher cognitive functions. These include impairment of thinking‚ memory and orientation‚ learning ability‚ language judgement. The resulting disability depends on the interaction between the underlying disease process‚ the individual and the social and built environment. 1.2 Describe the key functions of the brain that are affected by dementia. The key functions of the brain that are affected are: • Parietal Lobe – For behaviour‚ special awareness and recognition. • Frontal Lobe – For
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B Health‚ Care and Education Studies Assignment Front Sheet COURSE TITLE | BTEC L3 Extended Diploma Health & Social Care (Health Sciences) | UNIT TITLE & NUMBER | Unit 1: Developing Effective Communication in Health & Social Care | ASSIGNMENT TITLE | Strategies to overcome barriers to effective communication | ASSIGNMENT NUMBER | 2 | STUDENT NAME | | LECTURER NAME | Simone Yearsley | ASSESSMENT VERFICATION | BY: Elaine Dew | DATE: | 17.10.12 | DATEISSUED | W/C 10.12
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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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This is guidance for PCTs‚ Local Authorities‚ hospitals‚ and care homes to support them to understand and fulfil their statutory obligations under the MCA and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards legislation. | Sexual offences Act 2003 | The Sexual Offences Act 2003 relates to people with a mental disorder impending choice‚ as well as all children. Certain sections specify offences involving care workers‚ abusive types of relationships and abuse of trust | Human Rights Act 1998 | The Human Rights
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The types of incidents and emergencies which are arising in section A‚ • Accidents in this section we can see that the accident has happened because a s they quoted ‘some this explains that one of the staff member was abusing one of the elderly person. • Fire is also accrued in section A in the accidents ‘The flooding has caused electrical and a fire has started the lower floor kitchen of the home and is a spreading quickly’ this shows that fire started in the resident’s floor. • Major disaster
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Public health and social justice are very much interlinked (Gostin & Powers‚ 2006). Public health focuses on addressing the health care needs of the community rather than the individual‚ and on prevention rather than cure (Blacksher‚ 2014). Social conditions is one of the important underlying determinants of health. In view of this‚ social determinants such as living conditions‚ housing‚ a unhygienic and polluted environment which depend on the socio-economic status of the individual have to be addressed
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Health and safety in health and social care 1.1 ‘The legislation relating to general health and safety in social care work settings: The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 Reporting of Injury‚ Disease and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR) The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HASAWA) Food Safety Act 1990 Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH) 2002 Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations (PPE) 1992 Manual Handling Operations Regulations
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CU254 1.1‚ 1.2. Bacteria Bacteria are single-cell organisms‚ they are living things that belong to a group of their own‚ and therefore they are not classed as animals or plants. They are usually only a few mm in length‚ can be spherical‚ rod or spiral shaped‚ contain a cell wall and normally exist together in millions. Bacteria can only reproduce asexually and does not contain a nucleus. Bacteria can be beneficial‚ but it can also be pathogenic (cause disease in humans). Examples of diseases
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