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    The looming changes in health care are a frequent topic in many meetings with health care providers. Budget cuts are not just a speculation but are a reality. Decision-making to provide quality patient care with less money is a challenge at best. Health care management decisions are made daily and these affect many patients both positively‚ and negatively. Texas state department budgets are continuing to become leaner‚ and the Medicaid population seems to be continually growing. Texas currently has

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    pondering how could anyone do that to another human being?. What happened at Winterbourne View hospital was horrifying for both the patients and their families. The abuse that took place at Winterbourne View was criminal. The staff whose jobs were to care and help patients were shown to be abusing them. Six former members of staff at Winterbourne View hospital were jailed for the terrible crimes they committed * The patients experienced emotional abuse. For example – shouts of abuse to a point where;

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    brain that are – affected by dementia The functions of brain that are affected by dementia are the following: * temporal lobe which is responsible for vision‚ memory‚ language‚ hearing and learning * frontal lobe which is responsible for decision making ‚ problem solving‚ control over behavior and emotions * parietal lobe which is responsible for sensory information from the body‚ also where letters are formed‚ putting things in order and spatial awareness * occipital lobe which is

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    Health and Safety in the Health and Social Care Workplace Student Name: Lecturer: Group: Health and Safety This essay will show an understanding of how health and safety legislation is implemented in the workplace and its impact on customers and the work of practitioners. I will do this by; analysing health and safety priorities and risk assessments‚ discussing the encountering of dilemma’s in the workplace and by analysing the effects of non-compliance and a positive

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    Work Placement Portfolio On Health And Safety. This is a summary of how my placement at field house‚ meets health and safety to make sure that the working environment if safe for staff and residents also visitors. Food Safety Act‚ This act ensures that nothing extra is included in food‚ or remove anything from food or treat food in any way this could damaged to the health of people eating. It should be served to the quality which consumers would expect their food to be‚ that all food is labelled

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    M1- Assess the effects on those using the service of 3 different discriminatory practices in health and social care setting. There are many forms of discrimination for example ageism‚ sexism‚ racism. All of these discriminatory practices can have an effect on people especially those who use health and social care provision. Racism- In a health centre a women wanting to see a specific gender of doctor‚ but there is no doctor there which she wants to see so then maybe this women will not be seen

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    Unit HSC 2028 Move and position individuals in accordance with their plan of care This unit is primarily concerned with those people who are most dependent upon your assistance. The level of assistance they need can vary from needing help to get out of a chair to being completely dependent on others to move them‚ to turn them over and to alter their position in any way‚ for example‚ if they are unconscious or paralysed. It is essential that people are moved and handled in a sensitive and safe way

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    Under the shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and health care American Journal of Public Health November November 1997: Vol. 87‚ No. 11‚ pp. 1773-1778 Page numbers: 5 Vanessa Northington Gamble Desiree Gonzalez AFAM Studies Professor William Sales December 5‚ 2013 From 1932 to 1972 the U.S. government conducted a 40 year old study known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Men from Macon County‚ Alabama‚ 399 to be exact‚ were deliberately denied treatment for

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    LIFE STAGES 0-3 infancy Physical development | From birth 0-3 months start moving his legs and neck and start moving his arms forward to his chest when he lying down‚ at age 3-6 try to lift his head up and more movement and gaining his Wight‚ baby at this age start to set and controlling himself‚ at the age of 6-12 baby start to stand up and some baby walk‚ at the age 12-36 baby start walk without problem and jump when and using his hand and eat with his own hands. | Intellectual development

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    P3: explain patterns and trends of health and illness among different social groupings. Government findings According to the January 2007 report by the parliamentary office of science and technology why are some ethnic minority groups at more risk of ill health than others. Black and minority ethnic (BME) groups generally have worse health than the overall population‚ although some BME groups fare much worse than others do‚ and patterns vary from one health condition to the next. Evidence suggests

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